[meansizzler]

More like a few words...

Features

- Cooking Timer
- Shopping list, you can add recipe's to it and will ist ingredients you need
- Equipment list, shows you which equipment you need before you start
- Jargon Buster on Basic Ingredients and equipment
- Add notes to each recipe
- Basic food preperation instructions/pics and some vids, eg.. how to cook rice or boil an egg
- Ingredients Blacklist, can check what ingredients you don't like/want to use, eg.. pork/gelatine as well as spices and other stuff and any recipe you choose which has them ingredients wil have an x next to them..
- Can adjust how many servings you want eg.. 4 people and will adjust ingreidents needed on the fly

Ok as for browsing recipe's I though it was kid of complex you can browse fall 250+ recipees as a list/pics, browse by type of dish, eg.. veg/soup/meat/dessert, browse by country of origin as well as by ingredient eg.. pork

You can also type in the name of the dish but something like chicken soup will not be easy to find as it's usually under some fancy name, also found the dishes to be quite limited, could't even find a recipe for chocolate cake!!

Another feature is browse by length of time eg.. want a dish you can cook in under 5 minutes

Video's are very few, mostly text and pics for recipe's with voice, you can change the voice speed to..

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Anyway it is a pretty well put together application, wouldn't call it a game, great for those who have no clue about cooking as well as those who are single and need to learn to cook for themselves... but they really need to add more recipe's to it, 250 is nothing, and I want my Chicken & Sweetcorn Soup and Chocolate cake Recipe! If only they had built in memory on the DS they would make a killer amount of profit from downloadable recipe's...

[Tetlee]

Originally Posted by meansizzler

If only they had built in memory on the DS they would make a killer amount of profit from downloadable recipe's...

Surely they could have bundled the game with a slot 2 memory expansion cart as came with the DS browser, would have given the option to add plenty more recipes.

Not sure if I would feel comfortable with the DS sitting around as I cook though, I'm far too hazardous in the kitchen

[meansizzler]

I feel the same, but you can use the mic in the game, maybe once the first step is spoken out you can shout out "next step" and it will continue on, so you can keep the ds at a safe distance....

[RandomLee]

I got this for my gf at the weekend. She's a great cook anyway but it was more for the novelty really, rather than taking it as a serious cook book or anything. We've yet to cook anything from it but hopefully we will this weekend. First impressions are it's a great little application, super easy to use with well laid out menus etc. For something like this I also thought 250 was quite a lot of recipies, although not of of them are appealing obvious... like anything with shell fish!