Cooking Games – Root Beer Floats

It might be cold outside, but that is no reason you can’t enjoy a root beer float. These classic ice cream treats are great anytime of the year and have a different flavor than you might be expecting, so be prepared to enjoy a new kind of treat!

Start by grabbing a large glass to hold your treat. Use a spoon or ice cream scoop to scoop up two or three large scoops of vanilla ice cream. It is best to go with a plain vanilla here – vanilla bean might have a bit to much flavor for proper blending. Place the ice cream scoops into the glass.

Open a fresh bottle of root beer. Different brands have different flavors, so you might get recommendations from a friend if you haven’t tried them all before. Slowly pour the root beer over the ice cream in the cup. You can expect a great deal of fizz as the ice cream reacts with the root beer, but that’s part of the fun. Grab a thick straw and get to work enjoying your delicious treat.

Cooking Games Keep You Warm in the Wintertime

When it’s cold outside, there is nothing better than warm food to heat you right back up. That is the best part about cooking games – in the kitchen or online, you have the opportunity to create delicious hot treats for yourself and others.

Keeping Active
It’s easy to feel cold or be down about yucky weather when you’re just moping around. Quit whining and feeling sorry for yourself, use the time indoors to build your skills in something you like, namely cooking games. You can sit down at the computer along with a sweatshirt, warm socks and nimble fingers to see how far you can take your skills, or head to the kitchen where you can put your skills to the test in a real way.

Staying Focused
Once your mind is focused on something, it’s easy to get carried along on a wave of fun. You might decide to play a few rounds of cooking games online and then see just how well those skills carry over into the kitchen. Before you know it, you might have mastered the online barbeque and find yourself in the kitchen testing marinades and preparing to cook a delicious dinner for the whole family.

Cooking Games: Gingerbread Houses

I love gingerbread houses. If you don’t cook them exactly right, you wind up with cookies a bit too hard to eat easily, but that just makes them that much better for decorating. The ideal, of course, is to make your gingerbread house firm enough to decorate easily, but soft enough devour when the holiday mood strikes.

Making Gingerbread Houses
The easiest way to make gingerbread houses is to buy the mix from store that requires just a handful of ingredients or even better, buy the ready made dough that you can just roll out and start cutting. Cutting out your gingerbread house will require a knife and steady hand rather than cookie cutters. You'll need to make the four wall and the two roof sections before baking.

Decorating Gingerbread Houses
Cut out the gingerbread sections and bake them according to instructions. When they are baked to a golden brown, allow the sections to cool before decorating. Use icing tubes to stick the sections together and then candy to decorate the little house. Your gingerbread house can be a great decoration or you can start nibbling on it just as soon as you get it all put together.

Cooking Games – Frito Pie

Long a cold weather favorite, Frito Pie, or chili pie in some areas, is extremely easy to make and mighty tasty on a snowy or rainy day. To make Frito Pie, you’ll need:

• Fritos Chips
• Cheddar Cheese
• Chili
• Onions
• Jalapeños

Start by dicing the onions into tiny pieces. You want a bit of flavor, not texture in your dish, so make them extra small. Always use the knife carefully, of course.

Put the onions aside and pull out the Fritos. Pour the Fritos into a casserole dish. Open the can of chili and pour it over the Fritos being sure to cover them completely. Throw in a handful of onions over the chili before coating the concoction with shredded cheddar cheese. If you like the taste of the jalapeños, you can add them on top – but if you don’t like hot things, simply leave them off.

Bake your Frito pie in the oven for about fifteen minutes to heat the chili and melt the cheese. Remove it from the oven and serve it up in bowls or plates – enjoy this hot, yummy treat as often as you want!

Cooking Games – Peanut Butter and Chocolate

I’m convinced that nothing goes together better than peanut butter and chocolate. Fortunately, one of my very favorite holiday treats uses both of these items. Simple to make and even simpler to eat, peanut butter chocolate drops are truly yummy.

What You’ll Need:

• Peanut Butter Cookie Dough
• Hershey’s Kisses

Make perfectly round balls of cookie dough about an inch across. Place each one onto a cookie sheet. You’ll want to roll the balls by hand rather than just scooping them up. This is a time that neatness really does count, so stick to it (and wash your hands well, first.)

Put the cookies inside the oven according to the instructions on the cookie dough package. While you wait, you can peel the wrappers from the Hershey’s kisses. Place the open kisses in a bowl or on a plate.

When you pull the cookies out of the oven, you’ll have a collection of perfectly round peanut butter cookies. Place a kiss in the middle of each. The heat of the cookie will melt the chocolate holding it in place. Yum!

Cooking Games – Salt Dough Ornaments

A great Christmas time tradition are salt dough ornaments. You can make these ornaments using materials you likely have around the house already. Bake them until hard and then paint, color or use glitter to make them truly shine for small gifts and keepsakes on wrapped packages.

Combine ½ cup salt, 1 cup flour and ½ cup water in a bowl. Mix it well and then use a rolling pin to roll it out to ¼ inch thick. Use your favorite holiday and Christmas cookie cutters to make the ornaments and be sure to use a toothpick to widen a small hole at the top of each for a string or hanger. Place each finished ornament on a cookie sheet and when ready, bake all of them at 200 degrees for two hours.

When the ornaments are cooled off, you can use poster paints to create the ornaments. Use glitter and glaze to make them shine and then thread a festive ribbon through the tops so that friends and family can add the ornaments to their tree this holiday season.

Cooking Games – Are You a Master Chef?

There is only one place to go if you like cooking games, and that place is at the top of your game. If you play cooking games often enough online, you’ll notice your skills improving. Soon you can master level after level of burger flipping and pizza making. But the ultimate challenge can only be issued by another gamers – who among you wil be the Master Chef.

Here’s how to play.

Grab a friend or two and get set up to play the same game at the same time. You can set this up over the phone or over IM. IM is actually easier as you can send the link to the game to whomever you please. Once you have at least one competitor, start playing head-to-head. Go through level after level to see who comes out ahead each time.

It’s only a true contest if yu use different skills, however, so you should play at least three different games in this way. The best out of the three is the official winner and can be crowned the Master Chef. Good luck and keep practicing!

Cooking Games – Gingerbread Men

What could be yummier at Christmas time than a slew of gingerbread men? This cooking game is fun for younger brothers and sisters, too – especially if you cheat and use the ready to bake cookie dough.

To make gingerbread men, you’ll need:

Ready to bake gingerbread cookie dough (it comes in a tube)
Gingerbread men cookie cutters
Icing in tubes
Candies

Roll out the dough and cut out the gingerbread men. As you cut each, carefully place it on the cookie sheet. As each sheet fills, bake according to the dough’s instructions. Remove the men when still warm. You can’t put the icing on until the cookies are cool, but any candy that will be stuck on the gingerbread men should be done quickly after removing the sheet from the oven You can also use icing later to glue on gum drop buttons and the like.

Push in any candy pieces while the cookie is still hot and then allow the cookies to cool completely. When they are hardened and cool, use small tubes of icing to decorate each. Add faces, buttons, arm and leg decorations and anything else you can think of to make the gingerbread men fun for the holiday season.

Cooking Games – Wassail

A delicious holiday drink, Wassail (pronounced Wass-el) is a tradition in many countries already, and might become one of your favorite traditions this year. After all, cooking games aren’t just about foods – they can be about drinks, too.

To make wassail, you’ll need:

1 gallon apple cider
27 whole cloves
8 cinnamon sticks
1 quart pineapple juice
1 can (6 ounce) frozen orange juice concentrate

Grab a large cooking pot and start adding ingredients. There is no rhyme or reason to how you should add things, so just dump them all in. When you’ve added everything, set the pot on medium-low temperature over the stove. There is no need to cover it. You should stir occasionally to ensure all ingredients are blending smoothly.

Gradually the ingredients will all melt and start to mix. The rich smell of the wassail will be unbelievable, so indulge yourself in its rich smells all day as you let it simmer gently on the stove. So long as it is just resting on a warm burner, there is no overcooking the beverage. When it’s time to drink, stir well and pour into festive holiday glasses – enjoy!

What Comes From Cooking Games

Ever wonder why you play cooking games and what purpose they serve in your life? Of course they are entertainment and you play them because they are fun, but there is more to a simple cooking game than good times – it has other benefits, too.

Hand-Eye Coordination
One of the biggest skills in a rapid-fire cooking game exercise is how quickly you must move your hands after seeing an order come in or to keep all orders busy cooking. Who knows, you might be a surgeon someday operating via camera!

Processing Skills
Television will numb the brain, but cooking games will actually make your brain work faster. Having to react quickly to different orders and scenarios helps you to process information more quickly and to think of a strategy in a split second. Very useful life skill, indeed.

Real World Experience
When you play cooking games at home, you are working in the kitchen and actually gaining real world experience you can use on a job someday or as you grow older. The years you spent playing in the kitchen can ensure that you are fed well as an adult, too.

Three Reasons You Should Play Cooking Games

Like cooking games? You’re in very good company. Cooking games both online and in the kitchen are catching on in popularity with a wide range of people as more and more individuals start to focus on eating right and staying healthy. This is just one reason you might want to continue playing your cooking games.

Eating Right
Chances are, if you are making your own food in cooking games, you’re able to prepare food in a much healthier way than you’d get it from a fast food restaurant. Cooking games teach you how to use a wok and skillet and you can create your own yummy masterpieces that are actually good for you.

Learning New Things
The best way to keep your brain healthy is to learn new things. Playing cooking games is a great way to learn new things all the time and to try out new skills. The more you learn, the better you are in the kitchen.

Gain a Real Skill
Most games teach you hand-eye coordination and strategy, but cooking games can actually teach you a true skill. You can play cooking games online, then try your hand in the kitchen. When you’re done you’ve learned something you can use for a lifetime.

Cooking Games – Biscuits and Honey

A particularly homey winter cooking game is a very simple one, but extremely tasty. To make biscuits and honey, start by turning on the oven and preheating it to 450 degrees. Blend ¼ teaspoon salt, 2 cups of flour and 1 tablespoon of baking powder in a bowl.

Using two knives or even your clean hands, mix in 1/3 cup of shortening. When the shortening is mixed in thoroughly, the biscuit mixture will be crumbly, and that’s okay. Push a hole in the middle of the mixture ball and add ¾ cup milk. Stir the mixture with a fork until it is all mixed and moist.

Sprinkle flour on a cutting board and then lightly knead the biscuit dough by folding itself over on itself over and over again. Use a rolling pin or large can to roll out the dough until it ½ inch thick. Use a can or cookie cutter to cut out 10 biscuits from the dough. Place them on a cookie sheet.

Bake the biscuits for ten minutes, and after allowing the biscuits to cool slightly, break them open, drizzle them with honey and enjoy!

Cooking Games – Decorating Christmas Cookies

Christmas cookies are a staple of the holiday season and with good reason. To decorate Christmas cookies, however, you’ll need an imagination, a steady hand, and plenty of candy. Start with basic sugar cookie dough. Use cookie cutters to cut out different shapes from the dough and bake.

When the cookies are cool, you can use icing in tubes to outline the cookies however you like and then add candy for detailing. For example, a gingerbread man shaped cookie can be outlined in green icing. Little dabs of white icing will help to hold his candy buttons in place. A line of red icing makes a cute mouth and two black or brown dots make his eyes.

The trickiest part of this cooking game is outlining the cookie. To make a good outline, you’ll have to have a very steady hand as you trace the outside of the cookie and as you squeeze the icing out of the tube. The professionals have years of practice, but you don’t have years – you only have minutes or maybe hours. Do spend some time practicing on a separate piece of cardboard to perfect your techniques as much as possible before getting started.

The Best TV Cooking Games

There are some great television cooking shows out there, but as you know some are much better than others. I don’t have tons of time to watch online cooking games, but among my favorites:

Iron Chef
A totally random approach to a cooking show, Iron Chef America takes the original Japanese format and pits too chefs against one another to make a creation using a particular kind of food. The set up is cheesy and totally fictional. There is endless drama that isn’t really necessary, but something about the set up just keeps bringing me back. There are regular chefs on the show who are picked to go head to head making something delicious out of…PEANUT BUTTER or SPAM or CUCUMBERS. It makes for an interesting hour or so of your week.

Take Home Chef
Dress nicely at the grocery store, because you might run into a totally hot Australian chef. He buys your groceries, plans a yummy meal, comes home with you and actually cooks it with you in your own kitchen to show you how to prepare food at home. He then serves your gourmet meal to you and a special someone making a very yummy waiter and meal.

Are You A Celebrity Chef in the Making?

Someone joked recently that there would be more television chefs than policemen in the near future and there might be a measure of truth to the statement. TV chefs seem to be springing up all over the place and chances are, if you enjoy cooking games, you could be right up there with the best.

You Know How to Cook
To be a celebrity chef, you’ll need to know how to cook. You’ll need to know the basics and have a few tricks up your sleeve to make you better than the rest. Practice over the years with new recipes can help you here.

You’ll Need Showmanship
Nobody likes to watch a boring person stirring a saucepan. You’ll need to cook with flair and the best way to practice this is first using online cooking games and then in the safety of your own kitchen. (Always be careful, of course.)

Easily Speech
Finally, you’ll need to speak freely in front of a crowd or television camera. You can’t cook silently on show, so you’ll want to be sure you are comfortable speaking to an audience of any size and know how to handle yourself if you mess up.

Cooking Games: Nachos

Yummy nachos are a great winter snack as they are warm and gooey – perfect sporting events and winter television shows. To make nachos you need to start with the basics:


• Tortilla chips
• Cheese
• Beans (Pinto or Black beans work best)
• Tomatoes
• Shredded Lettuce
• Hot Sauce

Lay the chips in a single layer along a baking sheet. Carefully scoop out a small spoonful of beans onto each child and coat with cheese. If you desire, you can add another layer of chips above the first and then repeat by adding the beans and cheese to each. Put the tray in the oven for about 7-10 minutes to heat the nachos. While you are waiting, carefully slice tomato into small pieces and prepare your shredded lettuce.

When ready, remove the nachos from the oven and scoop them off the tray and onto a serving platter or plate. Sprinkle generously with the tomatoes and then the lettuce. You can add hot sauce to each nacho or scatter it about the whole platter. Jalapenos can be added for flavor as well. Enjoy!

Cooking Games: Rice Krispies Treats

Snap, Crackle and Pop – three of the best sounds when it’s time for breakfast or time for a treat. Rice Krispies treats are easy to make and even more fun to eat. Invite a friend over for this fun cooking game and you can make your Rice Krispies treats before settling down on the couch for a good gossip session and yummy, sticky treats!

Gather Essentials
To make Rice Krispies Treats, you’ll need six cups of Rice Krispies, one 40oz container of marshmallow cream, and three tablespoons of butter or margarine.

You’ll also need a 9 x 13 inch pan along with cooking spray or extra butter to prepare the pan.

Making the Treats
To make the Rice Krispies treats, begin by melting the butter in a large saucepan over low heat. Then, add the marshmallow cream or 40 regular marshmallows and continue stirring until all of the marshmallows are melted and the mixture is smooth. Remove the pan from heat.

Next, add in the six cups of Rice Krispies in intervals. As you add one cup, stir the concoction well to be sure everything is evenly coated. When all of the ingredients are mixed together, scoop out the mixture into the pan which should be coated in cooking spray or butter.

Press the Rice Krispies mixture flat and then refrigerate. When the treats are hardened, cut them into squares and enjoy!

The Best Cold Weather Cooking Games

Like cooking games? Now that it’s winter (or almost winter, anyway) you have more options than ever on games to play. The best winter cooking games take advantage of the cold to make hot, rich dishes the centerpiece of meals and snacks. Here are some of the best cold weather cooking games you should try this fall and winter:

Brownies From Scratch
We can all make brownies from a box, but can you make brownies from scratch? Start with blocks of chocolate and a bit of sugar and flour. Add the remaining ingredients from a time-tested recipe and see what the original version of the brownie is supposed to taste.

Hot Chicken Soup
Don’t settle for canned soup when the weather cools off. Make your own by cutting up chicken and vegetables and cooking. When you make your own chicken soup, you can add as many noodles as you’d like and make your chicken pieces large and delicious or thin and blended in with the rest of the concoction.

Fresh Bread
The smell of bread cooking is unlike any other. If you’ve never made bread from scratch, this is your year. Start with a basic white or wheat bread and go through the steps of kneading the dough, letting it rise, punching it down and repeating. Soon you’ll have loaves of bread fit for a king.

The Best Season for Cooking Games

As the weather cools, the kitchen heats up. The fall and winter are the best times for cooking games. Rich foods are standard fare and delicious treats and sweets are all part of the menu. In fact, you can spend hours in the kitchen baking up fun treats for Halloween, Thanksgiving and then Christmas or New Years.

If you’re not actually going to be in the kitchen, you can still get a great deal of fun out of cooking games by playing them online. Playing cooking games online will let you cook virtually, test your skills and stay in from the ever dropping temperatures. Warm soups, hot breads, steaming cakes and melted fudge are just a few of the items routinely prepared this time of year.

Don some slippers and pull on your sweats. Whip up some yummy snacks in the kitchen, and when you finish those cooking games, you can head to the computer to play as many other cooking games as you can find. Just be careful, however – you never know when the urge will strike to make something new based on a game you’ve just played.

Fun Fall Cooking Games

The fall is a fun time to be in the kitchen. The cold winds and swirling leaves make it the perfect time to try some of the tastier fall treats.

Popcorn – pop yourself a bowl of popcorn and then settle down by the fire or in front of the television to much and relax at the same time. Popcorn is especially fun on a windy night when you can watch a sob movie and cry into your bowl.

Hot Chocolate – The first cold night or morning is worthy of a hot chocolate. Make your mug of hot chocolate and enjoy it by the window waiting for the first snow of the season or just pretending it will stay cold longer than just a few days. If hot chocolate isn’t appealing enough, you can also try hot tea or hot cider to warm your insides when it gets cool outside.

Apple Pie – A warm apple pie is very fitting for the fall. If you’ve never made one from scratch, this is a great time to try. It’s simpler than you think to combine the apples, cinnamon, sugar and other ingredients into a yummy, flaky crust. You might not be able to save your dessert until after your meal!

Cooking Games: Fun Food Centerpieces

Cooking games aren’t just about making food items. Cooking games can also include making the fun centerpieces that go in the middle of the table when you get to serve the yummy creations you’ve made during your cooking games. If you’re looking for a fun idea for your table, consider a few seasonal items:

Pumpkin Pals
Paint or carve faces on a few pumpkins. If you paint the faces, the pumpkins will last longer than carved jack-o-lanterns most likely. But carving pumpkins can be a lot of fun, too. Whichever you decide, intersperse your pumpkins with dark green ivy and a few well positioned candles.

Cornucopia
The fall is a time of plenty, and what better way to show this than the cornucopia? Make a large brown open horn out of brown poster board or construction paper. Stuff the bottom of the horn with crumpled paper to help it stay up, and then arrange a variety of vegetables, fruits, grains and gourds around the outside of the cornucopia as if your horn of plenty had spilled its goodness onto the table.

Cooking Games: Caramel Apples

If you’re having friends over for Halloween, why not make one of the oldest Halloween recipes in the book? Caramel, or candy, apples. To make caramel apples, you’ll only need a few things. Making them with friends is the best choice as it can be a bit of work wielding apples on a stick – plus you’ll have someone to enjoy eating the apples with when you’re done.

Melt Caramel
Grab a bag of caramel candies and dump them into a microwave safe bowl. Heat the bowl in the microwave for a minute until the candy starts the melt. Stir the melting mixture and continue to microwave the candy until it is all melted and smooth – but not scorched.

Prepare Apples
While one person is getting the caramel ready, another can be dealing with the apples. You should have small apples from the store. Clean then thoroughly and then stick a craft stick into the top of each. Spread a sheet of wax paper out on the counter and you’re ready to begin.

Roll each apple through the caramel to cover it completely. Try not to drip much caramel as you place the apple (stick side up) on the paper to cool. When your apples are dipped and then cooled off completely – enjoy!

Cooking Games: Chocolate Spiders

A great Halloween cooking game to play this year as you prepare for the season of ghouls and ghosts is to make chocolate spiders. Here’s how to play:

Gather Ingredients:

• 2 Tablespoons of Peanut Butter
• 200 grams of Baking Chocolate
• 1 Package of Chow Mein Noodles
• Chocolate chips

Get Started!
Break the noodles into smaller sized pieces and put them aside. Take the peanut butter and baking chocolate and place it in a microwaveable bowl. Microwave the two on high for 30 seconds. Continue microwaving in 5 second increments until the chocolate is melted.

Stir the melted mixture well and then stir in the chow mein noodles. Gently stir the noodles into the mix until they are well coated with chocolate.

Scoop out a spoonful of “spider” and place it on a sheet of waxed paper or parchment paper. On each spider, use two chocolate chips to create eyes.

Place the spiders in the fridge to set. When the chocolate has hardened, your spiders are complete. Put them in a special Halloween bowl or on a tray for your guests to enjoy.

Cooking Games – Baking Pumpkin Seeds

When you make a jack-o-lantern this Halloween, don’t just throw all of those seeds away. You might not realize it, but pumpkin seeds can be a delicious and very healthy treat!

Gather a large group of pumpkin seeds in a bowl while you are cutting and cleaning your pumpkin. Don’t worry about the gooky orange mess that comes with the seeds, you’ll clean that off later.

Take your bowl inside and work at the sink. Grab a smaller bowl and carefully separate the seeds from the orange gunk and wash each one off. Sounds tedious, but you can really just grab a handful of seeds and hold them under running water to clean off the goo. Then throw the clean seeds in the new bowl and repeat until most of your seeds are clean and ready.

Arrange the seeds in a single layer on a cookie sheet. Place them in the oven to roast. When they are a light tan color and smell yummy, carefully remove the tray from the oven and scoop the seeds back into the bowl. Sprinkle the seeds generously with salt (or a salt substitute if you’re being especially healthy) and you have a delicious pumpkin treat!

Cooking Games – Using a Wok

If you’ve never used a wok, you don’t know what you’re missing. Cooking with a wok is often a healthy stir-fry alternative to more traditional means of food preparation. A wok is like a flat bowl that you heat on the stove or on it’s own burner. Throw in a bit of flavored oil and then all of your favorite ingredients. Toss the ingredients while they cook in the wok, and soon you’ll have a yummy meal ready to go.

Learning to use a wok is straightforward if you know how to use a skillet. Of course you should always be safe in the kitchen and be especially carefully with the wok as the pan gets extremely hot. A spatula or slotted spoon should help you handle your wok creations and an apron will help keep you clean while you toss and turn your food.

Woks originate from Asia where they have been used for centuries. You have many options when cooking food in a wok, however. Don’t be fooled into thinking you can only cook Asian food in an Asian wok. In reality you can cook anything in a wok that you can cook in a frying pan or skillet – so long as it doesn’t have to be totally flat. For examples, pancakes in a wok are probably not the greatest ides, but cut new potatoes would be a yummy wok treat.

Campfire Cooking Games

If you’ve never been on a campout, you’re missing out not only on a good time overall, but also a chance to try out cooking games you might not have considered previously. A campfire isn’t just reserved for hot dogs and marshmallows – although they are a great place to start.

Hot Dogs
Hot dogs are one of the easiest things to cook on a campfire. Simply thread the hot dog onto a stick and hold it over the embers (not the flames) until it is crackling and golden. If you hold it in the fire, it will cook faster, but get charred. If hot dogs are too basic for you, try making chili dogs, but putting a can in the embers to heat chili to put on top or skip the hot dogs and opt for a heartier sausage.

Marshmallows
You can cook a marshmallow the same way as a hot dog by holding it over the embers on a stick. This is fun, but eating a plain marshmallow, even toasted to a golden brown can be a bit dull. Instead, toast your marshmallow and place it between two graham crackers with a bit of chocolate inside. Congratulations! You’re made your first s’more!

Cooking Games: The Layer Cake

Cakes are a yummy treat, but if you’re like most girls, you love the round layer cakes you can buy from the bakery, but have yet to have success baking one at home. If you’re ready for a bit of cake adventure, try making a layer cake instead of a pan cake the next time you’re inspired to play cooking games.

Make the Layers
Pour your cake batter into at least two, but probably three round pans that are the same size. The higher you want your cake, the more layers you should create. You might need to make an especially large batch of batter to fill all of these pans. Bake the cake layers according to the instruction on the box or in the recipe. When they are baked, remove them from the oven and allow the layers to cool completely.

Making the Cake
To actually make the layer cake, carefully remove the first layer from the pan and place it on the cake platter. Using a large knife, cut away the rounded top of the small cake so that your layer is completely flat. You can nibble on the cut out pieces. Spread a layer of icing carefully on top of the now flat layer before adding your next layer. If you will be adding a third layer, cut away the top of the second tier to make a flat surface. If this is the top of your cake, leave it rounded. When all layers are in place, ice the cake completely and decorate as you please. Enjoy!

Favorite Cooking Games

If you are like most people, you likely have a favorite cooking game already picked out. But for those who are just venturing into the realm of cooking games, there are all manners of games to choose from designed around American cuisine and foods from all over the world.

Barbecue Cooking Games
In a barbecue cooking game, you are the grill master and must make plates of food at command. You cook hamburgers, hot dogs, and often chicken or pork to be served up on buns with side dishes. If you fall behind on orders, you can get frazzled and food starts to burn, so be careful!

Pizza Cooking Games
When you’re making pizza online, you have to hurry to stay ahead of the many orders flying in. Get the toppings just right and throw the pie in the over quickly before the next order comes in. Just remember to take that pizza back out of the over before things get steamy!

Ice Cream Cooking Games
Want some ice cream? An ice cream cooking game will certainly make you hungry for a cool, sweet treat. Ice cream sundaes are often the name of the game with ice cream cooking games. Pile up those scoops of ice cream and start throwing on some toppings. Nothing burns in an ice cream cooking game, but things can certainly get a bit sticky.

Cooking Up Something Good to Eat

Cooking games are fantastic for young people – both boys and girls. Too often today we never learn to actually cook anything, but with the help of cooking games, you can get an idea of how to grill, fry, and prepare all kinds of food that you might never traditionally think to cook in your kitchen.

Learning the Ropes
Learning your way around a kitchen can take years of casual experiences – a sandwich there, a frozen pizza here, or it can be done in an intense course of cooking games. In cooking games you navigate the kitchens looking for new skills and maintaining many different food items at a time. This is exactly what it is like when you head to the kitchen to cook up an entire meal.

Getting New Ideas
In cooking games you can also get ideas for food to cook on the grill. You might not have thought to prepare a certain item they way it is prepared in a cooking game. This is particularly true of games that are developed in other countries. Instead of cooking food that is similar to what you eat every day, you might be able to experience foods unlike anything you’ve tried before. Of course you can’t eat what you make in a cooking game, but you can at least learn the steps and ingredients and then try the recipe in your own home.

Do Cooking Games Teach You to Cook?

You would think that the sheer amount of time invested in cooking games would turn almost anyone into a cook of magnificent proportions. After all, in only too you two burned hot dogs before you mastered the virtual barbeque. But do your skills flipping burgers in the nick of time translate to the real world?

It can.

It’s never certain, but if you pay attention to certain cooking games, you’ll notice that there are certain skills that do transfer over to the real world. For example, flipping hamburgers on the grill is a bit more complicated than the more popular BBQ games out there, but if you’re just learning about grill options, you can learn a lot for the game. Knowing how to gauge doneness and remembering to stay on top of cooking food are definitely skills you’ll need to know in the kitchen.

You can also learn some basic skills regarding ingredients and techniques. Working through the cooking games will give you a chance to measure ingredients and work with some recipes. This exposure might actually help you find a sample to make at home. Wouldn’t it be something if the cake you’re helping to frost online actually tastes delicious off line as well?

Cooking Games: The Young Harvester

One of the best cooking games available has little to do with the actual cooking process and much more to do with the hunting and gathering of ingredients. All over the nation and world, small farms produce fresh fruits and vegetables specifically for local consumers. If you want to truly play cooking games, you’ll need the best ingredients available.

How do you find these ingredients? By getting them yourself. Gather up some friends and head out on country roads in search of the real deal. Look for small farms where you’re invited to pick your own strawberries or cut your own pumpkin. Fruit stands along the side of the road will likely have some of the freshest items you’ve ever tasted. Farmer’s markets will give you the choice of fresh eggs, produce and even breads.

If you’ve never experienced anything outside of the supermarket, you’re definitely missing out on some of the best food Mother Nature has ever created. If you can’t find any authentic produce in the countryside, you should always search out local produce in your neighborhood store – it’s almost as good as the real thing.

Shrimp on the Barbie

No, we’re not talking about a plastic doll and a piece of seafood. We’re talking about seafood on the grill. The phrase “shrimp on the barbie” became popular in the US some years ago during an advertisement campaign for Australia. If your still confused, throwing another shrimp on the Barbie means you’re putting another round of shrimp on the grill to cook, i.e. a barbeque.

Australia isn’t the only country with terrific saying such as this. There are abbreviations and local expressions for food all over the world. And the best way to learn some of these is to play cooking games from all over the world.

While you probably can’t travel down to Australia to try a fabulous new shrimp recipe, you can certainly try one of your own online thanks to the sheer number and variety of cooking games available. Barbeque your own hamburgers, hot dogs, shrimp and more in one version of a cooking game and then switch to creating cakes and pies for dessert in another. With so many cooking games available, you’ll learn world cuisine in no time and you might even decide you need to try something in real life that you never thought to sample.

Cooking Game Lingo

If you’ve ever been to a small town diner, or even one in a larger city that still uses the old school lingo, you might have been confused over the two spare tires and moo juice your waitress calls back over her shoulder after you order. After all, you just asked for two donuts and a glass of milk, didn’t you?

Diners love to spice things up, so you’ll often hear unusual names given to otherwise normal food items. Eve with a lid on it might be a piece of apple pie with a scoop of ice cream on top and a checkerboard is a waffle.

Whoever thought of these names must have had plenty of time on their hands, but diner lingo is fun to learn and even more fun when you can apply it online to your cooking games. Rather than just playing the old fashioned cooking games, find ones that utilize diner lingo and you can learn new lingo right along with the fun you’re having drawing a cup of mud (pouring a cup of coffee) or throwing around a hockey puck (sandwich.)

Invent Your Own Cooking Games

If you’re playing cooking games online, you’re likely a creative sort. Being creative means that you’re likely not always satisfied with the games you play online on in the kitchen. If you’re constantly finding improvements with the games other have created, perhaps it’s time to create your own.

Making Cooking Games
The best chefs rarely follow recipes. They know their skills and foods to the point that they don’t need to look at anything. They can just do it. Your cooking game can work the same way. Why follow a recipe when you’re perfectly capable of adding some spices and garnishing.

Explore your options in the kitchen by checking out what’s been hanging out in the pantry and refrigerator for a while. Throw out any old food you come across, but grab the hidden treasures everyone else has forgotten about. You can do a lot with frozen hamburger meat, spices and a block of cheese. You won’t know the possibilities until you try them out.

Try, Try Again
If you’re playing your own cooking games and you realize that your creation is more suitable for the trash than the human palate, don’t be afraid to chuck it and try again. It takes practice to get new recipes and skills perfected, so for every success, there will be at least one failure.

Yummy Cooking Games

Some cooking games are better than others, but the best cooking games, hands down, are the ones that are the yummiest. What makes a yummy cooking game? It’s up to you and your taste buds for the most part.

Yummy Cooking Games are Tasty
Cooking games online can be yummy fun, but the truly tasty ones in your own kitchen are the most fun. Think of the times you’ve been pleasantly surprised by how delicious something was that you cooked. Whipping up a masterpiece from a simple recipe or something you found online is definitely tasty.

Yummy Cooking Games are Fun to Play
If you’re forcing yourself to cook instead of having fun and making cooking fun, you’re working too hard. You can make anything in the kitchen a cooking game, but you have to have the right mindset. It’s hard to cook green beans in a fun and creative way, but the best cooking games are the creative, fun ways most of us never think of.

Yummy Cooking Games are For Everyone to Enjoy
When you play cooking games, you get to enjoy the actual game, but everyone else gets a benefit, too. You might make cookies because it’s fun to use cookie cutter, but your friends get to eat them all during lunch the next day. When you can share the joy, you’re truly playing a yummy cooking game.

Cooking Games Competition

If you love cooking games, you’ll love cooking game competition. It’s likely you already watch cooking competitions on television, but there is no reason you can’t host one of your own. Read through a basic recipe and gather the ingredients.

Then browse the grocery store aisles looking for other items that might go well with the basics. Bring it all home, get your friends to come over and then set the timer. Each team or individual works to create a delicious dish and the winner is determined by a simple taste test and vote. Or you can pull in your older brother to be the taste tester and unbiased.

Another option for cooking games competition is to prepare a dish at home and then bring it with you to a friend’s house. While you were baking your apple pie, she was baking hers, and now you have a chance to sample each others and decide who won. Then you can share recipes and share the rest of the pie while you hang out together and watch the professional chefs whip up fabulous meals from the paltry items they have available.

Recipe Books

If you play cooking games, it’s likely you know your way around a kitchen. Recipes aren’t anything new to an old pro like you, but that doesn’t mean you should limit yourself to what Betty Crocker published in her little book. Use basic recipes as a starting place and then embellish them to make them your own.

If you like mashed potatoes, don’t settle for potatoes, milk, butter and salt. Add other ingredients to give the mashed potatoes more flair and make them your very own. Then, as you create new recipes, you should write them down correctly and add the recipes to your very own file or notebook.

A one inch binder is the perfect size to start your own cookbook. Grab some dividers and you can make sections for main dishes, side dishes and desserts. Then get started experimenting.

The recipes you create and perfect over time can be written on paper or printed and put in the notebook. You can also print off other recipes from online or cut them from magazines and include the recipe in your book. Over time you’ll have a complete collection of what you need to master your own kitchen or café some day.

The Top Five Things You Learn from Cooking Games

Like cooking games? Of course you do. Cooking games are more than just a bit of fun on an otherwise boring afternoon. You can learn a lot from cooking games including the top five lessons you’ll even learn from cooking games:

How to Make a Pizza
If you can whip up a pizza, you’ll never starve. Just knowing how to prepare the crust is enough to ensure you’ll always have a job and never go hungry again.

The Importance of Sanity Conditions
Cooking requires more than fast hands and good recipes. You need to keep your kitchen clean and your hands washed. Otherwise someone gets sick and/or you get cited by the health department.

How to Flip Pancakes
Flipping them in the air is just plain cool. You can even save the trick to show your kids someday.

The Value of Patience
Good things come to those who wait, and that includes baked goods. Turn on the timer and wait it out.

How to Set a Table
If you learn nothing else, pay attention to how the tables in your virtual restaurant are set. This is a skill you need, but never realize it until it’s too late.

Cooking Games: Snacks for Slumber Parties

Having friends over? Then you’ll need some snacks. Sure you can stick with the old favorites of popcorn and Oreos, or you can use the skills from your cooking games to whip up something more exciting for everyone to munch on.

Homemade Ice Cream
You can make homemade ice cream easily enough using vanilla, milk, rock salt, ice and some plastic bags. Or use your electric ice cream maker. Your delicious variety of ice cream is a perfect treat for a summer slumber party.

Cinnamon Rolls
Use the kind that come in a tube unless you’re really a whiz in the kitchen. Regardless of how you get your recipe together, soon you’ll have warm gooey cinnamon rolls ready for all of your guests to enjoy.

Tots and Cheese
Buy a bag of frozen tots and get a parent’s help to fry them up at home. Or you can use your toaster over to heat them. Then, grab some cheese, sprinkle it on top and you’ll have your very own delicious treat. If you like chili, you can sprinkle your tots with that as well for chili cheese tots.

Burritos
The newest healthy food is the burrito or wrap. Buy some large tortillas at the grocery store along with a selection of items to put in them including chicken, steak, beans, rice, cheese, sour cream, salsa, and lettuce. Then wrap up each individualized creation and enjoy.

Cooking Game: Midnight Snacks

Working late and getting hungry? It’s time to use your cooking game skills to create the perfect midnight snack.

Grilled Cheese – Nothing like a oozing sandwich to give you energy enough to finish the project. The cheese especially is full of protein which is great for sustained energy. Use wheat bread to make the snack even healthier.

Popcorn – A light snack that you can keep munching on for hours if you need to, popcorn is easy to make and easier to enjoy. Skip theater butter an go for a more natural variety to cut down on extra calories and fat.

Nachos – Grab some chips, cheese, beans and tomatoes and you can make your very own plate of nachos. In fact, you can add anything you want or skip the chips and add tortillas to make tacos instead if you’d rather.

Pizza – If your freezer is stocked with frozen pizza, this is the perfect time to take advantage of that stash. Cook one up and enjoy it. Just remember that pizza has a lot of calories, and calories this late at night might need a bit of extra burning off the next time you’re working out.

Cooking Game: Breakfast in Bed

The next time you’re feeling like a dutiful child, you can treat your parents to something extra special. This cooking game is perfect for special occasions such as Mother’s day or your father’s birthday. Breakfast in bed is a great luxury, especially if it’s prepared and delivered without ever having to leave your bed.

And that’s where you come in.

Since you love cooking games, why not use your cooking skills to give Mom or Dad a special treat. Set your alarm and head into the kitchen earlier than the household wakes up. If you’re experienced enough and have permission to use the stove, you can cook eggs and bacon, but if you’d rather not risk it, you can still prepare frozen waffles and fresh fruit for your parents.

Pour a glass of orange juice, add the morning’s paper and place the whole assortment on a tray. Then carry the tray into your parents’ bedroom to give them a terrific wake up call.

Remember that making breakfast in bed is more than just throwing some food on a tray. You’ll also have to clean up any mess you made in the kitchen and help to clear the tray away when they are done eating.

Cooking Game Rules

You probably already know all the rules to online cooking games, but do you know the rules around your kitchen? When you play cooking games at home, you need to know more than just how long to set the oven timer. In fact, you might not be allowed to use the oven at all.

Always let an adult know what you’re up to. If you’re going to play in the kitchen, always let an adult know. The father you are from your high school graduation, the more likely it is your adult needs to be in the kitchen with you.

Cut carefully. If you’re wielding a sharp knife, always give it your utmost attention. You must also always cut away from you carefully. Sure, the experts slice and dice, but you’re just as likely to chop a finger as the tomato, so take it slow and get it right. The wrong way has nasty consequences.

Protect the heat. When you use the stove or oven, you need to be careful around the heat. A large number of house fires start in the kitchen, particularly on the stove, so be sure there are no towels or curtains near the open burners and always know where to find the fire extinguisher in an emergency. In fact, it’s best to let an adult supervise when you’re using a heat source.

To Cook or Not to Cook

Sometimes you feel the urge to don an apron and whip up something fabulous. But more often than not, you start to walk to the kitchen only to discover that maybe you don’t want to make a meal or a treat after all. If you just can’t make up your mind, cooking games can help.

Cooking well is a gift and a true passion. You can prepare a meal without spending a lot of time preparing ingredients and arranging items on a plate. Wanting to spend time and do it right is part of what makes chefs and those who enjoy preparing food special. Do you enjoy playing this part of the cooking game?

You’ll know easily enough if you head on the computer to play online cooking games. Online cooking games incorporate every part of the kitchen experience without actually making you step foot in the kitchen. You can prepare ingredients, mix things up, arrange food on plates and bake to your heart’s content.

If you find you love taking care of all these steps online, it’s very likely you’ll enjoy them just a much when you cook in the kitchen. So if you feel that urge to bake, take a few minutes to play a cooking game on the computer. Still feel it? Head to the kitchen and create a yummy masterpiece.

Cooking Games and Super Fruits

Recharge your cooking games at home by using super fruits. Super fruits are all around us, but have much more health benefits than the fruits we might normally put on our plates or use in cooking games.

Super fruits include foods such as cantaloupe, blueberries, green apples, and pomegranates. These are just a few of the foods that have been shown to help fight cancer and other diseases as well as make us healthier over all.

The next time you’re in the kitchen trying to decide what concoction to whip up, think about how you can use one or more of these fruits in a dish. You should be eating at least one serving of a super fruit every day. You might start with something easy like throwing blueberries in your banana and strawberry smoothie. Then, as your cooking game skills get more advanced you can try blueberry cobbler, cantaloupe salad and even green apple pie.

Like all cooking games, you should have fun with your food, especially if the food is of the healthy variety. And there is very little healthier in the world than these antioxidant rich items that also just happen to taste great.

Using Cooking Games to Lose Weight?

It’s a bit of a mystery to some, but cooking games can actually help you to lose weight. How? The answer is more obvious than you think:

Playing cooking games online helps you to stay out of the kitchen. If you’re bored, you’re likely to munch on junk. But if you’re moving your hands in a rapid fire motion flinging virtual pizzas, there are no bites of real pizza going in.

Cooking games keep you moving. Playing online might mean you’re playing while seated, but you’re anything but still. Your hands are moving and so is your body as you twist and turn your way through each brutal round of a cooking game. And any movement burns calories, right?

Cooking games keep you on your feet. If you’re playing cooking games in the kitchen, you’re most likely standing and moving around the room as you prepare the different dishes. The more you move the more calories you burn.

Cooking games ramp up your metabolism. The best way to get your metabolism moving is to snack throughout the day on healthy items rather than eating heavy meals. If you’re busy in the kitchen, you’re likely too busy to sit and eat, and instead will just munch on a bite of something here and a nibble of something there.

Four Reasons Cooking Games Are Better Than Actually Cooking

Like to cook? Not really? You’re not alone. But I’ll be willing to bet that despite your admitted defeat in the kitchen, you’re a whiz at cooking games. This isn’t particularly surprising since cooking games are must better than the real thing.

• Cooking games are clean. When you’re playing a cooking game, there isn’t any batter to spill on the counters or eggs to crack. There’s not any cleaning up at all, actually. It doesn’t get much better than that!

• Cooking games can be played while eating. If you’re in the kitchen cooking, you’re presumably not munching on anything other than maybe a few bites of uncooked vegetables. But when you’re playing cooking games, you can really chow down on anything you like – nachos, pizza, cookies, vegetables, you name it!

• Cooking games won’t set your house on fire. In the kitchen there are about fifteen ways to set your house on fire. On the computer, you’re cooking in the safety of virtual reality. Flip, bake, broil and char. There will be no grease fires on your watch!

• Cooking games are available 24/7. When you want to cook, you can’t just rush down to the kitchen at eleven PM and whip up something fun – just for the joy of it. But if you’re up late and want to feel culinary, you can certainly play cooking games.

Let Cooking Games Entertain You

Have you tried and few cooking games and found them intriguing? Cooking games are a great way to spend time online when you need a break or are just hanging out for a bit, taking a break. What makes cooking games such a great way to entertain yourself? Plenty of things:

Cooking games challenge you. In the type of game structure used for cooking games, you’re only battling yourself or possible the computer. Each level gets more intense making you work harder and faster. This hones reflexes and skills and you build yourself up over time until you’re reflexes are sharp enough to master any game – cooking or not.

Cooking games are solo. When you’re killing time waiting for your BFF to make it over to your house, it’s nice to play a game that’s designed to be play by one person. No challenges, no world-wide networks, just a simple game of cookie baking or hamburger flipping to keep you busy.

Cooking games fit into small time slots. When you only have five minutes before a first date or before you can fashionably arrive at a party, you want something to do other than pace and nibble your fingernails in anticipation. Cooking games are a perfect fill for that time slot.

Cooking Games: Creative Colors

Who says you can’t use your artistic skills when creating meals? We all know you can color icing on cakes and cookies, but have you ever thought of adding color to other food items – just for fun?

Changing food colors is an interesting phenomenon. The body is naturally repulsed by certain colors on certain items as this is a way of protecting you from eating bad food. You wouldn’t eat green meat would you?

Well maybe you would if you were having a bit of an experiment and trying new things out on your family – and you know that green came from a container of dye. Why not play with food coloring – although I wouldn’t start with meat. Try baking a loaf of bread from scratch, and adding red food coloring to the dough. Then, when it cooks, you have pink bread – not everyone can say that!

If your mom drags you into the kitchen to help with dinner, you can work on the mashed potatoes. REALLY work on them, if you know what I mean. The quickly cover your creation until you unveil your purple delicacy on the kitchen table for all to enjoy.

Cooking Games: Making Smoothies

What goes down better than an ice cold drink on a hot summer day? An ice cold smoothie, of course! Making smoothies is a terrific cooking game simply because so much of what you put into your smoothie is up to you. Not only do smoothies taste great, they are really very good for you as well.

Smoothie Ingredients The ingredients in a smoothie are straightforward: fruit, yogurt or sherbet, ice, and juice. How to prepare your smoothie can have a lot to do with the power of the flavor and its texture. For example, if you use a poor blender you’ll wind up with chunks of ice. If you include lots of berries, you might be drinking more seeds than you’re comfortable with.

Smoothie Tips
If you’re going to make a smoothie, invest in a great blender or even a smoothie maker. Then, skip the ice and instead freeze your fruit ahead of time. If the fruit is frozen, you don’t need to add ice to make the drink slushy; the frozen fruit will take care of that for you. Keep a container of frozen fruit and you can grab some anytime you’re ready for a healthy treat.

Add juice first and then slowly add fruit. If your blender bogs down, simply add more juice to balance the amount of fruit. You should avoid adding water as that will only dilute the smoothie and the flavor.

Cooking Games – Pancakes

Looking for a fun cooking game this morning? Why not make pancakes!

Start with a simple batter recipe. My personal favorite is the batter that simply requires water. You pour the water into the yellow jug and shake madly for a few minutes. Then you’re ready to make pancakes. Well, you’re ready if you like the basic kind.

I personally like to jazz my pancakes up a bit, so I add extra things on a pretty regular basis. For your pancakes, try adding a handful of fresh blueberries to the jug (and shake to mix). You might also add a handful of crushed nuts, or go for the gold with crushed nuts and mashed banana – banana nut pancakes YUM!

Now that you have a bit of extra flavor, you’re ready to cook. Turn on the stove (with adult supervision, of course) and pull out a griddle pan. It will be large and flat. Once it’s hot enough, dribble oil onto the pan and turn the pan a bit to give it covered.

Then pour on a circle of batter. Make a few circles and wait minute or two. When the top looks less like gooey batter and more like almost pancake, flip the pancakes over to finish cooking. Then eat and enjoy with your favorite syrup.