Cooking is a passion that can be cultivated in the home stove even without having a minimum of experience, just the will and the desire to do, the cookbooks will do the rest, also available as apps for smartphones. But if you are also looking for some healthy fun in the kitchen without having to dirty a single dish "> Using these apps you can have fun without the stress of having to buy ingredients, follow the recipe found online and clean up everything!
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Types of games
Culinary games can come with different characteristics (all fun!), But for convenience this tip of games responds to two very precise genres in the videogame field:
- Cooking and stove simulator : you have to personally choose the ingredients (often also the doses) and cook the dishes appropriately.
The more skilled you are, the tastier your dishes and the points you will get in the game.
- Management of activities and catering : the games that fall into this category will put you in front of the responsibilities of a manager or a restaurant owner, with the shopping to be done, the modernization of the premises and the culinary equipment and the hiring of the members of the staff necessary for the proper functioning of the premises (from chefs through waiters and directors).
The most famous games adopted a bit of both genres, thus presenting both pure cooking simulation features and a management part to make the fun even more interesting.
That's why I will notify you for each game if the management component is also present and how it behaves compared to the rest of the game.
1) COOKING MAMA Let's Cook!
The first app that I recommend you try to play in the kitchen is COOKING MAMA, an app born from the very lucky game released a few years ago for Nintendo DS and now available for any smartphone.
With this game you can slice, blend and prepare many recipes in different game modes: test yourself, campaign and numerous mini-games that will surely stimulate your culinary fantasy.
In addition to simple cooking, it will be possible to manage a restaurant (management style) and the points accumulated during the game will be taken into consideration for the weekly rankings at regional and world level.
You can download this fun game from here -> COOKING MAMA Let's Cook! for Android and COOKING MAMA Let's Cook! for iPhone .
2) Cooking Craze, for Android and iPhone
This is one of the most fun games for Android and iPhone ever, especially because it is fast and full of recipes to cook in your virtual restaurant to grow until it becomes popular.
3) Cooking Fever
Another great app for playing cooking on smartphones is Cooking Fever.
In this game you will have 19 different settings in which to compare yourself and thus prepare the most famous recipes from all over the world.
You can at any time spend the points accumulated to buy new equipment for your restaurant and face the campaign (of over 400 levels) with an extra boost!
Definitely one of the funniest games you can try if you love cooking and you like restaurant themed management.
The game is downloadable from here -> Cooking Fever for Android and Cooking Fever for iPhone .
4) World Chef
With World Chef you will become the manager of one or more restaurants around the world, with the aim of always getting the most out of every activity.
You will have to choose the menu, the style of the restaurant and in addition manage the dining room staff and the kitchen brigade so that everything runs smoothly.
The more happy customers you get, the more points you will win and you will be able to manage more and more restaurants, with the possibility of supplying them with the latest technologies in the kitchen and in the dining room to achieve the perfect service (for example if you are famous enough you can join a sommelier in the dining room to taste expensive wines to your customers).
A decidedly more managerial game than the previous ones, but no less fun!
You can download it using the links here -> World Chef for Android and World Chef for iPhone .
5) Crazy Cooking Chef is the game where you have to serve customers, cook burgers, milkshakes, ice cream, spaghetti for them, without making them wait too long, in restaurants like fast food, with the queue at the checkout.
Crazy Cooking Chef combines the kitchen with the managerial aspect of the restaurant business, making the game also quite complex and varied.
Crazy Cooking Chef can be downloaded for free for Android and iPhone .
6) My Cafe: Recipes & Stories is the game, where you have to manage a restaurant, organize the tables, make the place welcoming, hire staff, decide the menu with prices and take care of every commercial aspect of the business.
It's not really a game where you cook, but for its setting and for the quality of its management dynamics it deserves to be mentioned among the best in this category.
My Cafe: Recipes & Stories can be downloaded for Android and iPhone .
7) Kitchen Craze
With Kitchen Craze you can manage all types of activities by choosing between the various culinary styles (Italian, Japanese, Chinese etc.) to carry out a successful business.
You will also have to manage some very important aspects for the success of your kitchen, such as the purchase of ingredients to fill the refrigerator in the restaurant and the help of new chefs, who will follow your instructions to the letter.
In this way, managing multiple rooms separately (pubs, pizzerias, restaurants, restaurants and other styles) will make you experience the difficulties of carrying out a commercial activity of this type, always with the lightness of a culinary game.
If you are interested in Kitchen Craze you can download it from the following links -> Kitchen Craze for Android and Kitchen Craze for iPhone .
Other cooking games for Android
The games that I presented to you in this guide are the best you can start playing with if you like cooking and running a business related to the culinary sector.
There are really a lot of themed games, reviewing them all is practically impossible!
But if you have already tried all the games at the top you can continue to have fun trying one of the games in the following list, all compatible with Android:
- Kitchen Story: Diner Cafe
- Cafeland
- Food Truck Chef
- Chef Rescue
Other cooking games for iPhone
There are numerous cooking games even on iPhone devices, it is not possible to list them all!
If the games at the top have not satisfied you, you can one of those below to play in the kitchen:
- Restaurant Story
- Happy chef HD
- Cooking Dash
- Star Chef: Cooking Game
