What Makes Cooking Games Eternally Popular?

Cooking games nowadays range from mixing ingredients to cooking complicated dishes. Time pressure is the number one antagonist for this type and the player must finish the dish before the clock hand stops to emerge as the winner.
And it's not just the little ones who are playing this kind of game, adults are getting hooked to this kind by the day and has become something of a trend among even among men.  They spend a good part of their days sitting in front of the computer and just clicking and dragging salt, butter, eggs, and the like to win a simple kitchen battle.
These brings in the question of what makes cooking games so close to home.  Below are few conclusions:
1.) They prove to deviate one from stress -  Playing this type of game serves a diversionary tactic from the pressures of work or school or whatever is causing distress. The mixing, the baking, and the cooking somehow eases the mind from a complex state to simple acts of choosing ingredients.
2.) Games of this type brings out the competitive mode - Since some cooking games are played interactive style, meaning with other players on a simultaneous basis, one tends to be competitive and be in the "game zone."
3.) Brings that educational value -  shallow as it may seem but this kind of games gives players knowledge on how to make some dish or pastry.   And for those who do not know anything about cooking and baking, the games play a vital part on giving them the ingredients for a certain dish they have been wanting to make.
4.) It brings the player back to the carefree days -  everyone must have that day where they were just in garden or in some part of the house playing with miniature cooking utensils with their friends, with their aprons on, seriously mixing and sweating to cook pasta or soup. This is the feeling that playing cooking games brings.

5 Fun Kids Cooking Activities

Do your children like to spend their time making awesome mud pies or are they constantly stirring up some of their best grass soup? Then maybe it's time to let them loose in the kitchen with these fun kids cooking activities.
1. Allow your kids to create a new recipe. Pick out 5-7 ingredients that you think might go together and can be baked in a pie pan. For example, eggs, cheese, barbecue sauce, salt, flour, garlic powder, and corn chips can go together. The kids can also try a combination of cinnamon, eggs, flour tortillas, caramel sauce, and bananas. You may need to help them figure out "reasonable" amounts of each ingredient. There's no right answer; just have fun with it.
2. Start a Kids' Recipe Book. Everyone has recipes they love, including the kids. Have your child pick out 10 of his or her very favorite recipes. Either you or they can type the recipes out on the computer in a cool font with borders and some clipart. Print them out and "laminate" them with clear contact paper. They can then put the recipes in their very own cooking notebook.
3. Give your child an easy kid-friendly recipe to prepare on their own. Kids love to spread their wings and do things "all by myself." Give them the opportunity by handing them a super easy recipe and explaining how to do it. Depending on their age and skill, talk about kitchen safety and that you will be handling the oven/stove part of the task.
4. Have the kids take pictures of each other while cooking. They can make a small scrapbook filled with photos of their proud cooking moments. They will really enjoy this now, but also after they've grown up. Looking at the scrapbook and their kids' recipe book may remind them of good family times.
5. Decorate the cupcake challenge. Most kids have no problem creatively decorating a cupcake when given the proper toppings. Add a twist to the activity by getting out any possible toppings you can think of and asking them to decorate the cupcake to look like a cat or a flower. They'll come up with some decorative toppings you didn't think of.
All these kids cooking activities give you the chance to teach your kids the ins and outs of cooking. Your children also get the chance to learn many things in an atmosphere of fun. Give your child every opportunity to be creative in the kitchen and your child will thank you one day.