Great for New/Inexperienced Cooks!

Let me start out by saying that I always LOVED to cook, but the only things I could make were cakes out of a box, spaghetti, hamburgers, steak and pork chop. All pretty bland. Well, I'm engaged now and pretty soon I'm going to be a wife... My fiance's largest concern is (or should I say was) my cooking. LOL leave it to a man right? After receiving my new game, I immediately inserted the disk into my DS to begin looking at recipes. This has food from so many countries on it, Chinese, Australian, Japanese, Vietnamese, American, and so many more. Within hours I find myself at our local grocery store picking up items to make for dinner that night. My first meal prepared was the Sweet and Sour pork, a Chinese dish that I knew my fiance' would love. I also made some Banana Brownies for desert since brownies are his favorite. At first I was a little nervous but with the games' automated chef speaking and going along with you while your preparing the dish it's so simple. If I can make these dishes, I know any one could. Thumbs up to the Personal Trainer Company for this awesome creation.

Okay for what it is.

The well-produced Personal Trainer: Cooking add featured on the Wii Channels Shop site and the glowing celebrity endorsement of none other that Phoebe herself, Lisa Kudrow convinced us that this might be a fun instructional video to help re-discover the fun of cooking. And it does succeed with it's interactive ingredients query among other tools. The video presentation and real-time instructions should guide even a confirmed butter-fingers through some challenging culinary confections. Our real problem was with the recipes, or rather the lack thereof, which included no breads and little baked goods, and altogether not very recipes. If you want to learn how to make California Rolls, this is the game for you. But if you want to learn how to prepare more than a few dishes of a given cuisine, or to just plug in whatever ingredients you have and see what is available, you might not get much out of this game.

Awesome program! Great cooking! Love it!

This is so easy to use! Made Lasagna last night and it turned out wonderfully. The grocery list is a very good touch and the timer is helpful too. Being able to add notes is helpful if I want to change a recipe a tad.
The instructions for prep are quite basic but for younger cooks--teens--the prep information would be helpful. You can also have the verbal instructions start from wherever you want them to so you can skip the prep part if you like.

On the con side--there are not enough substitutions on the list provided. Most of them are all foreign ingredients. Basic substitutes would be more helpful.
The mic is very sensitive. I don't know whether that is a good thing or not --if my kids spoke to me the program would kick in and say "excuse me?" or something like that.

I had quite a bit of fun listening to the chef and even having a game open up because I used the timer for the dish--great! Nice surprise. :)

So far the program is an A and I would recommend it for anyone wanting to jazz up their cooking routine. It gets boring to just look at a piece of paper and go from there.

Great "game" Go Nintendo! Atari's Jamie Oliver "game" holds nothing to this and after seeing Personal Trainer Cooking the Atari "game" I had bought first, can go in the trash! Nintendo is awesome!

Cooking

This has recipes for many foods including foods from all over the world. It fits in your pocket so you can take it when you go grocery shopping for the ingredients needed!It talks you through and has video! EXCELLENT!

Great Buy!

I decided to buy the Personal Trainer: Cooking Nintendo DS game because I got tired of cooking the same meals day in and day out. Now that I have it I'm absolutely happy! The game gives you a lot of recipes and you can customize the game to only give you recipes with the ingredients you want to use. It has a voice input mode so you can verbally tell the DS to turn the page while making your meals. The only down side is its limited to the recipes that it has. There is no updating of the recipe list. Like for example, you could go online to download more recipes to add to the collection. It doesn't do that. All in all though, I would recommend this game to anyone looking to spice up their dinner table with a meal from every country around the world.