Cooking Games: Hot Dog Grill

Last night we pulled the grill off the patio and make hot dogs. While not a glamorous meal, it was yummy and it reminded me of all the fun cooking games you can do with the grill. There are many, or perhaps even more, ways to cook over fire than there are ways to use your stove or microwave. When you make hot dogs on the grill, you’ll want to follow all basic fire safety rules.

- Your grill should be away from the buildings and away from major traffic patterns.
- The grill should be cleaned before starting the fire. If you leave grease or bits of old food on the grill, you risk the chance of a fire.
- The grill should always be watched. Never leave the grill alone while you’re cooking, you’d be risking a very serious situation with an out-of-control fire.
- Always cook food thoroughly. Use a meat thermometer to be sure that anything you cook on the grill is hot enough to kill off bacteria and is safe to eat.
- Let the grill cool off before touching it. There’s no need to get a silly burn by trying to pull the grill over too soon.

Cooking Games Online and Sheer Boredom

I’ll admit that there have been times in the past that I was bored. I was bored trying to find things to for entertainment, but those days are past. The cooking games I’ve been playing have livened things up for me considerably. I like anything to do with food, of course, but playing cooking games online lets me put a bit of my brain to use trying to keep the games organized and it lets me use some memory and balancing skills to get orders right without actually having to get up and soil my own kitchen (that would require clean up.)

To play cooking games, you simply try to keep up with orders as they come in. The “customers” in the cooking games will ask you to make things like barbeque or pizzas and you have to work the grill or the ovens to get the orders right each time without fail. The cooking games let you practice your hand-eye coordination and require you to be organized or you’ll start burning the food that you’re supposed to be preparing. All in all, the cooking games online are addicting yet still more than amusing to play.

Cooking Games and a Clean Kitchen

If a kitchen is clean, it’s not being used properly. Should a kitchen be clean at the end of the day? Sure. But if you have a kitchen that stays clean all of the time, you’re not putting it to good use. Try some cooking games to liven things up in your own kitchen and you’ll see just how much fun you can have with a few mixing bowls and spoons.

Start small if you’d like by choosing some cooking games that are low key – perhaps some fruit salad that just involves cutting things up rather than actually cooking anything. But then move on to something better – perhaps some cookies or a pan of brownies that will let you mix, bake and then eat. Cooking games don’t have to be complicated to enjoy them, and once you start experimenting with the different cooking games, you’ll realize just how much fun it is to create delicious things and you might just branch out into using all of your appliances.

Cooking Games – The Lemonade Stand

Having a lemonade stand is as classic as it gets. You can approach the lemonade stand in a few different ways. The basics of the cooking games are simple – sell disposable cups of lemonade to people walking by your house or corner. This means you need to have lemonade on hand to sell, and if you want repeat, happy customers, your lemonade needs to be pretty tasty, too.

There is always the option to make the lemonade from scratch by pressing lemons and adding sugar and water. If this is more labor intensive than you’d care to tackle, you can also use a frozen concentrate to make lemonade. Much like frozen orange juice concentrate, the frozen lemonade tastes authentic with pulp and a rich flavor. Powered lemonade is the easiest and least expensive to make, but it will also be the most basic lemonade offering available – perfect for a hot day, but perhaps not as awe-inspiring as a glass of icy cold hand-pressed lemonade might be.

Cooking Games – The Cookie Cake

An easy, but very delicious, cake to make for a friend is a cookie cake. The cookie cakes they sell in the mall and specialty shops can get pretty pricey, but a cookie cake is much less expensive and even better since it comes from the heart. The cake starts with a basic recipe for chocolate chip cookies. The Nestle Tollhouse recipe is a classic and classics are great for this particular situation. Make the cookie dough as directed and then, instead of putting it in small balls on a cookie sheet, press the dough into a jelly pan.

The jelly pan has raised sides that will hold the cake’s shape as it cooks letting it fill in correctly for a uniform appearance. Once the cake is cooked and totally cooled, bust out some icing and sprinkles and decorate it to your liking. You have total freedom with your cookie cake in how you decorate it and if you want to personalize it. The final results of the cooking games is a fun cake that is easy to transport and delicious to eat – yum!