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 ...

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 ...

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 ...