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Why Timed Kitchens Are Won at the Oven, Not at the Counter
Every timed kitchen game on this site gives you more to do than there is time for. That is the genre. What varies is…
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Practical guides to kitchen games: the order a timed rush wants you to work in, how decorating differs from baking, and what to check before handing a tablet to a child.
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Baking Games and Decorating Games Are Not the Same Thing
Two games, both showing a cake, both promising you will make one. In one of them you will mix a batter, wait for an…
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Choosing Cooking Games for a Young Child
Kitchen games are a good genre for small children. They are calm, they are about making rather than beating, and the subject is something…
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How Browser Kitchens Handle Heat — and Why It Matters
Heat is the one thing a kitchen game cannot avoid modelling, and how a game chooses to model it says more about how it…
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When a Cooking Game Is Not a Cooking Game
A large number of games described as cooking games contain no preparation at all. This is not a complaint about them — several are…
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