Cooking Guide: Can't Decide What to Eat? (Nintendo DS)

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Editorial reviews

Product Description
Want to make yourself a quick dinner after a long day at work? Want to plan a week of meals for your family? Or do you want to make a Sunday roast for 10? Cooking Guide can help you solve all these and many other meal dilemmas. Choose from 250 recipes from all over the world. Cooking Guide takes you through every step from compiling a shopping list, preparation of ingredients and utensils through to a step-by-step guide of how to make your chosen meal. With varying difficulties of recipes Cooking Guide is suitable for all. The voice recognition software makes it simple to go through each stage of the recipe. Interactive cooking aid that takes you through over 250 recipes from scratch. Game is designed to take the user through every stage of cooking. The recipes are enhanced with many demonstrational videos which go beyond the capabilities of printed cook books. Additional functionalities are included to facilitate the cooking and preparation process.

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Customer reviews

review by: Rachy rach date: 2008-11-26 rating:
A useful, polished little thing
I'm utterly rubish at cooking. I also cannot allow my mother to try and teach me how to cook because she is annoying when she does so. When I heard about this game I was incredibley pessimistic, it had the potentional to be awful like a lot of DS educational games but this isn't one of them. It's so easy to use, however the voice recognition is an issue though, often not working because of the background noise. Here's a handy hint, pop your DS in a little plastic bag to protect it and you can put your filthy mits on it as much as you want! I love the note taking capability and after cooking the dish I write the rough price of each dish so when I'm skint I can see what I can afford! I'm off to Spain for a month soon where I shall have to fend for myself and this will be a great tool to take with me when I'm stuck for ideas. I also think this would be a great idea for getting kids involved in cooking as it is an innovative, fun and clever tool whilst at the same time appealing to the adult market.

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review by: jenchoc date: 2008-11-16 rating:
Doesn't inspire, sorry
I have to confess to being of the fast food/takeaway generation, and bought this 'game' hoping it might inspire me to get cooking more, building on the influence that Jamie's Ministry of Food had on me recently.
However, I should've bought his ds 'game' instead, as this one seems to be asian primarily (I think it has been written by an asian company).
I was hoping to have more basic recipes that would inspire me to build on and grow, but that just isn't the case.
The section with food preparation videos is extremely helpful, especially to those of us for whom home economic days are a long and distant memory.
I will be looking to sell this on, though, and intend on buying Jamie's alternative (in spite of not wanting to line his pocket with silver any further!)

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review by: martingilligan date: 2008-08-16 rating:
Very poor.. come back Delia
Personally I found this to be total rubbish,

Even after following recipes to the letter I end up with very unsatisfactory results.... runny sauces et al.

The speech recognition has to be disabled because when you use it and do anything remotely noisy (like chopping ingredients!!!) it thinks you are speaking and it gets totally confused taking you back through the cooking instructions.

This means you have to use the stylus which is hardly ideal when cooking. It was very disappointing given I thought I had found something useful to do with my DS rather than 'training my brain' or zapping aliens....

I would say spend you're money on a good Delia cook book.

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review by: posyflump date: 2008-08-08 rating:
Good idea
Great idea, great interface - would be massively useful for a cook lacking in confidence. The only gripe I have with it is the recipies! They are clearly meant to appeal to a global audience, but I thought they were all a bit odd! I hope they are planning to bring out more editions - specialising in various cuisines - ie an Italian one, British one and so on. I'd definitely buy them.


review by: zann_jr date: 2008-07-28 rating:
Guide not game...
First of all, I really advice taking out a little extra insurance on your DS console, and having screen protectors. Unlike most games for the DS this is a little more hands on, and it is good to remember the clue is in the name - guide. The recipes are simple and easy to follow, and although the voice recognition is a little over sensitive at times, its not difficult to back the steps up or skip a few to get back to the right point. Nintendo are really learning to push the DS as far as it can go, and with this guide, you can see its working.

Oh, by the way, the Tarte au Sucre and the chinese pork are particularly tasty...

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