Nintendo Wii’s Cooking Mama: Cook Off
January 12, 2007 by Maricar
Filed under Cooking, Product News and Reviews
I’m not much of a gamer at all, so I was surprised to learn about the chef-against-chef family game called Cooking Mama: Cook Off
GameSpot’s Brian Ekberg describes it:
It’s a game that challenges you to create as many sumptuous meals as you can by using various ingredients while being presided over by the “tough love” of Mama. Yes, Mama wants you to succeed in your culinary efforts, but she’s not afraid to get tough on you if you don’t bring your “A game” to the kitchen…
Preparing meals in Cooking Mama is simple: you follow the step-by-step instructions as they come on screen, combining and manipulating ingredients until your meal is prepared. The faster and more accurately you prepare the ingredients, the higher the score you will earn in the process.
With the 55 recipes from international cuisines and 300 food ingredients, the game can provide hours of virtual cooking fun. It’s due to be released on February 28, 2007.
I’m wondering about the actual value it can provide as a training tool. Can it teach real cooking skills? Will it allow me to find out how complicated a recipe is before I try it out in my kitchen? At the very least, it could help me become familiar with a new recipe. Besides it’s going to give me a break from, well, cooking. 
Too bad there’s no technology for tasting food virtually yet. Maybe someday.
[Source: GameSpot]
Tags: cooking, Cooking Mama, Cooking Mama: Cook-Off, Nintendo Wii, housekeeping, homemaking
