What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver

by Atari

Product Features

• 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.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001CZJOPO
• Product Dimensions: 4.8 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: October 21, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #18,006 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)

Product Description

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, mouth-watering photography by David Loftus of the quality we’ve come to expect from Jamie’s books, and featuring voice recognition leaving hands free to concentrate on the cooking. The interactive shopping list automatically saves ingredients from chosen recipes (either Jamie Oliver’s or your own creations) and organizes them by food type making trips to the supermarket a breeze. You can add any other items you want to the list using the keypad or text recognition.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

20 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars It's a Miss As a Game, A Hit as a Cookbook, November 8, 2008

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Victor Wong (Ottawa, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver (Video Game)

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."

15 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars What's Cooking, October 24, 2008

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Veronica D. Franklin - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver (Video Game)

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!

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Love it, December 17, 2008

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Lady D "Tech lover" - See all my reviews

= Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: What's Cooking? With Jamie Oliver (Video Game)

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!