Cooking Games: Tea Sandwiches

Most teens aren’t taking tea on a regular basis, but that doesn’t mean you can’t throw a more grown-up version of a tea party and include tea sandwiches. Making tea sandwiches is relatively simple.

Gather Ingredients for Cooking Games
To make tea sandwiches, you’ll need:

• Bread
• Chicken salad
• Tuna salad
• Toothpicks
• Lettuce
• Tomatoes

Making Tea Sandwiches
To make tea sandwiches start by cutting the crust off your bread. Traditional tea sandwiches are made on soft white bread, but you can use whole wheat as well. Cut the crusts off to make squares, or go a step further and make small triangles.

Then you’ll place a small scoop of chicken salad or tuna salad on a piece of bread. Top the scoop with a piece of lettuce and a slice of tomato before adding the top piece of bread. Use a toothpick to hold the small sandwich together. Present the sandwiches on a nice platter along with tea and sweets and enjoy!

Resolving Common Problems with Cooking Games

Even the best games have problems and cooking games are no exception. Cooking games are great in many ways, but there are certainly some things I’d like for the game developers to consider as they create future cooking games.

Cooking games need more variety. There needs to be more to cooking games than you can find right now. Cooking games are great, don’t get me wrong, but think of the many kinds of dress up games out there. There just aren’t very many things you can do with cooking games. Someone creative needs to be out there thinking up new solutions.

Cooking games should have less repetition. Rather than doing the same thing over and over again, you should have the opportunity to try something new on each round of the cooking game. Rather than just flipping more pancakes, perhaps add some eggs and bacon to the mix.

Cooking games should span the globe. I think the cooking games we enjoy online should take dishes and practices from all over the world. I might not know much about authentic cuisine from every country in the world, but I’d sure like to learn more about it.

The Problems with Cooking Games

Cooking games don’t get nearly as much attention as they deserve. I love cooking games for the skills they teach as well as the fun you can have while playing. Of course, if you’re into cooking games, you know that there are some quirks that might could stand improvement.

Cooking games lack variety. I’d love to see something come out in cooking games that is really new and fascinating. Cooking games get a bit similar across the board. Although there is some variety, I’d really love to see something truly new and different.

Cooking games get repetitive. If you like to try new things with every round, cooking games might be a bit frustrating. In cooking games, the objective usually stays the same, but the intensity changes as you progress from one level to the next.

Cooking games aren’t multicultural. I’d like to see more cooking games that teach me about other cultures rather than baking cakes, pizzas and barbeque. Why can’t I make gyros or fajitas or something? Surely there are other things in the world that we can implement into a cooking game.

Cooking Game and Health Concerns

There are many health concerns in the kitchen when playing cooking games. Cooking games often involve cutting food items and using heat. When you play cooking games, you must be aware of the health concerns that are always present in the kitchen.

Bacteria
When you prepare food items, you must always be aware of bacteria. Bacteria are ever present in most meat items before they are cooked. If you place that uncooked meat on a cutting board and then place another food item on the same cutting board, the bacteria transfers from one to another. If you eat it, you might become very ill.

Germs
Germs are just as rampant as the bacteria in the kitchen. A sick individual who touches a counter might transfer his germs to anyone who touches that same counter top. Germs and bacteria travel very easily through air and through contact. Using clean knives and a clean cutting board will help to reduce these potentially dangerous items. You should also clean regularly using anti-bacterial cleansing agents.

Cooking Games – Fruit Sandwiches

Fruit is always a tasty treat, and making it special is fun. Creating fruit sandwiches is simple enough once you have the right kinds of fruit and other ingredients.

Ingredients for Cooking Games:
Apples
Oranges
Kiwi Fruit
Strawberries
Grapes
Toothpicks

Creating Fruit Sandwiches
Begin by slicing the fruit into thin slices. Slice the apples into full slices cutting across the entire apple. These two pieces will be the top and the bottom of your fruit sandwich. Peel the orange and break the orange into slices. Slice the kiwi into round slices and thin as you can make them. The strawberries should be full slices as well. Cut the grapes in half.

Place an apple slice on the work surface and place a tooth pick in the center. Thread a kiwi slice onto the toothpick followed by a slice of strawberry. Place an orange slice next followed by a strawberry and then kiwi. Top the creation off with another slice of apple. Use the tip of the toothpick to hold the grape at the very top of the sandwich like a garnish.

Cooking Games and Safety

When playing cooking games in your home, be very aware of safety precautions. Often online cooking games fail to show you the full range of possible dangers. The fun of flipping hamburgers and making pizzas in a cartoon doesn’t include burns or sharp objects, but games in the kitchen do.

Heat
Be very careful around heat sources. Burners, pans that have been on the stove, the oven, and especially steam from opening pots and items cooked in the microwave can burn. Boiling water in the microwave can heat the water to an extremely high temperature and the steam from a bag of popcorn fresh from the microwave can have damaging results. Always use caution when dealing with any form of heat.

Sharp Objects
Be wary of sharp objects as well. Knives, scissors and open can lids are common items in a kitchen and all can give you a nasty slice if you’re not paying attention and being carefully. Keep knives sharpened as a sharp knife is less likely to slip on food as you try to cut.

Bacteria
A hidden danger in the kitchen is the amount of bacteria that can grow on surfaces. Clean well before and after all food preparation to prevent the growth and transmission of dangerous bacteria.

Cooking Games – Dirt Cake

A favorite of children, dirt cake is easy to make and just gross enough to be delicious.

Gather Cooking Game Ingredients
To make dirt cake, you’ll need:

• Chocolate sandwich cookies
• Instant chocolate pudding
• Gummy worms

Creating a Dirt Cake
To make a dirt cake, begin by fixing the instant pudding according to its directions. As the chocolate pudding is in the fridge cooling off and setting, begin working on the “dirt.”

Place about twenty chocolate cookies into a very sturdy plastic bag. The kind with a zipper is most effective. Squeeze the extra air out of the bag as you seal it. Use a rolling pin to begin crushing the cookies. Roll the pin back and forth and use the back of a spoon to help break up harder sections. Continue breaking and rolling the cookies until you have a bag full of dark crumbs that resemble dirt.

In your serving dish, sprinkle a layer of crumbs and then spoon in the pudding. Smooth the pudding flat and then add the remainder of the dirt on top of the “cake.” Stick gummy worms out of the cake at random to create a more dirt-like effect and serve!