Cooking Guide (DS)

Cooking Guide My 11 year old son would you believe has taken a real interest in cooking over the school holidays. He has been peeling and chopping veg. cooking salmon fillets, marinating steaks etc. and seems to be getting a real kick out of it. I do think there is a cunning plan behind this sudden involvement as he has recently started to show an interest in girls, coming home from hols with a couple of mobile numbers so is presumably learning to cook to impress them in the future. Or is it because if he can cook he reckons I'll allow him to come home from school and stay on his own as long as he cooks dinner. Yeah right like that's ever going ...  Read the complete review

What Is It? Cooking Guide is the new DS game from Nintendo to try and get all of us cooking. Unlike Cooking Mama, this isn't actually a game, it is more a Tutorial, containing real recipes, videos and advice on how to make the best dishes. It lets you use your DS in a whole new way, as a recipe book! Why Would You Buy It? 3 things lead me to buy this product: *Advertising- I had seen this game advertised on TV and really wanted to try it out. I had a DS for over a year and loved Brain Training, Nintendogs and Harry Potter; so it would be good to play something different. I also saw big stands of the games in Tescos and HMV which encouraged me ...  Read the complete review

Okay, so 'Cooking Guide' isn't necessarily a game as such. There is no challenge as such, no points or levels, the graphics are limited to photos, videos and menus. No, 'Cooking Guide' is basically a piece of lifestyle software on the DS. Usually, these 'games' are BAD. Bad cash-ins, taking advantage of the DS family audience hooked in by Brain Training and the like. However, with 'Cooking Guide', I can see a purpose. Cooking can be tricky, especially for a beginner - getting together the correct ingredients, preparing them and cooking them in the right way - there are so many things that can go wrong, and this handy application has each of these ...  Read the complete review

The Cooking Guide is a recipe book for the DS. It costs £25 normally and I managed to get it for £20 in the sale. It contains 245 recipes from different countries. When you go on to the game the options are cooking guide, cooking A-Z and shopping list. The cooking guide is the option you choose to find a recipe. There are a number of different ways to find a recipe which I find useful. You can view all 245 which are split in to categories e.g. salads and soups. You can also search by country, ingredients or requirements. If you search by county it will show a world map and put points on the country where the are recipes available. ...  Read the complete review

I bought this for myself when it was released and I have cooked with it about a dozen times now. My favourites are Lemon Chicken and Sticky Toffee Pudding, both of which I have made twice. I especially like how the recipes can be 'filtered' - by country, by main ingredient, calorie count, cooking time, cooking method, and by difficulty, or combine the settings to narrow down your options further. Some of the recipes do require a sense of adventure, as this game was originally developed in Japan, before being tweaked for the Western market, but if you want expand the horizons of your tastebuds, this is a great way to go about ...  Read the complete review