America's Test Kitchen: Let's Get Cooking (Nintendo DS)

Get the whole family having fun in the kitchen

What's for dinner? Just tap the touch screen to reveal dozens of possibilities, then gather a team of friends or family members to help prepare it. 300 recipes have been tested and perfected by the three dozen test cooks at America's Test Kitchen, a 2,500-square foot kitchen that is home to Cook's Illustrated and Cook's Country magazines as well as the popular America's Test Kitchen public television show. Now their culinary expertise promises to give everyone the tools and knowhow to prepare spectacular meals - together.

• 300 yummy recipes courtesy of America's Test Kitchen
• The software guides you through recipes step-by-step
• Assigns specific cooking roles to each family member

• Everyone in the family can get involved thanks to age-appropriate kitchen tasks. Simply adjust the settings to indicate whether younger helpers are old enough to handle knives or adjust stovetop controls.
• Users can find something for every taste and occasion by browsing the 300 recipes by ingredients, difficulty, cooking time, or even calorie count.
• Rate your favorite recipes for quick and easy retrieval in the future
• Prompts appear within recipes for specific terms that you might need more information about. Plus, users can even watch helpful how-to videos, hear audible instructions, and use voice commands to navigate the software during the cooking process
• If multiple people on your cooking team have Nintendo DS systems, you can wirelessly transmit select recipes to them, even if they don't have a copy of the game card, so you can concentrate on the entre while your assistants tackle the side dishes
• Just as with a traditional cookbook, users can take notes. The software's handwriting-recognition feature records notes about personal touches users add to their recipes.
• All the recipes have been created by editors, food scientists, tasters and cookware specialists at America's Test Kitchen, who have taken the guesswork out of finding the best recipes