What’s Cooking? with Jamie Oliver NDS
- Creative Cooking Mode – Players use hundreds of hand-picked ingredients to create their own dishes. Up to 100 of your own unique recipes can be saved then recreated in the kitchen later and shared with friends and family using the Wi-Fi Connection.
- The cooking games offer fun for everyone with a series of recipe challenges using the stylus to chop, stir and serve in a variety of virtual real-time 3D kitchen settings.
- Challenge your friends and family to a cook-off or beat the clock, all the while keeping quality and taste in mind on your way to becoming a top chef.
What’s Cooking? with Jamie Oliver walks players through virtual and real-life cooking situations, from shopping to chopping, dressing the dish to serving up meals. The portability of Nintendo DS means Jamie Oliver is with you every step of the way to offer help and inspiration at the supermarket, in the kitchen, on the barbecue or wherever you feel like cooking up a storm. Try your hand at some delicious real cooking with the interactive cookbook, stuffed with 100 original Jamie Oliver recipes,
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BBQ Secrets – The Master Guide To Extraordinary Barbecue Cookin’
- Award-winning DVD
- Top World Class Competition BBQ Experts
- 3 Big BBQ Locations: St Louis; Little Rock; Kansas City
- Includes 18 Page Recipe Booklet Champions Own Recipes
- Wide Demonstrations of Cooking Styles & Foods
3 world champion BBQ cooks, and restaurateur’s team up to share their decades of successful cooking experience that will help new and veteran bbq cooks improve their barbecue results. The three cooks presented in BBQ SECRETS: The Master Guide to Extraordinary Barbecue Cookin have decades of championship experience that can help competition and backyard cooks improve your barbecue cooking. This is a detailed and comprehensive video resource devoted to sharing expert barbecue cooking tips, techni
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It’s a Miss As a Game, A Hit as a Cookbook,
Let’s face it: you wouldn’t buy this “game” as a game because (a) there’s no element of competition except against a clock and (b) there’s only so much game designers can do to mimic cooking techniques with a stylus.
You would buy this game because it’s Jamie Oliver on the cover, and Jamie Oliver is famous for encouraging people to cook food well. In short, you’re buying this “game” because of Jamie’s recipes.
There are 100 of them included here, which is okay for a bargain cookbook but a bit slender for $30. So the features need to make it up in order to be worth it. The fact that you get to prepare the recipe in the “test kitchen” means you get a dress rehearsal, of sorts, before trying it out for real, and that does count for something if you’re just learning to cook.
There’s also that “shopping list” mode which lets you get a grocery list for whichever recipe you plan to cook. Some gamer critics say taking a DS into the supermarket will make you look like a geek, but given that Jamie Oliver’s normal cookbooks are the size and weight of two laptops, toting a DS when shopping is preferable to lugging one of those cookbooks around.
What we have here, then, is a basic cooking tutor on Nintendo DS, whose selling point is that the recipes included have Jamie Oliver vouching for their palatability when prepared right. Best advice: wait a few months for the price to come down a bit, if you’re a JO fan.
As for good cooking games as “games,” you’d probably have more fun with “Cooking Mama.”
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|What’s Cooking,
What’s Cooking? With Jamie Oliver
I like this game for so many reasons!
1. Jamie Oliver’s giving you direction and instructions that are simple and easy to follow.
2. Recipes are created using real ingredients, unlike Cooking Mama
3. Not only is this a cooking tool, there are also really fun and cool games
4. Equally as entertaining to my 9 yo who feels like he’s actually cooking. So if he burns the eggs, its only in the game, not in my kitchen and he can keep starting over until he gets it right (and so can I).
Awesome!
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|Love it,
I love this game. I spent hours trying to make the brownies because I couldn’t get the egg cracked or forgot to grease the pan. Once I got the hang of it, I was thrilled to get my rating. It was funny because I was thinking I could have gone into my own kitchen and made real brownies in less time. Within days, I had unlocked all the kitchens. Now I get to unlock additional recipes.
Great game!
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|serious bbq must have,
Excellent resource for serious outdoor cooks.
Never knew BBQ was such big business, or how much I did not know about great grill cooking. Fun story, many many tips (basic AND advanced) step by step from the Masters in this movie.
I may not be ready for the big time but these secrets helped make me queen of the grill at my house. Highly recommended.
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|Not helpful at all!,
This video was more a commercial for each of the restaraunts as opposed to a “Master Guide”. There were no secrets given and the basics that were given were so basic that I’m sure they were trying to speak to a group of 6th graders – home economics class. I am so upset with this purchase that when my wife offered to sell it in our next garage sale I told her no for fear of someone else wasting their money on this waste of a video.
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|BBQ Secrets – the master guide to extraordinary BBQ cookin,
This is a very informative video. I am an experienced hot smoking fanatic and I picked up several tips from the video. It is money well spent, in my opinion. The gentlemen providing instruction in the video all have winning credentials and are passionate in what they do. I took notes and have since applied some of the techniques with very delicious results. It is an excellent addition to ones personal library.
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