Saturday, September 27, 2008

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.

Wednesday, September 24, 2008

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.

Saturday, September 20, 2008

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?

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

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.

Saturday, September 13, 2008

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.

Wednesday, September 10, 2008

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.)

Saturday, September 6, 2008

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.

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

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.