Can Cooking Mama make you good at cooking?

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[Zero-N]

Fun fact, over cooking eggs can make them super watery. Meaning, that the longer they waited for it to dry up, it just got worse and worse.

[dovedozen]

"no, no, no; please don't shake the baby" has been a permanent part of my vocabulary for YEARS AND YEARS; I'm so glad you got to experience whatever babysitting mama is dkfkgkfds

[zoromance]

the feature where you have to blow into the device on cooking mama 2 haunts my childhood. literally ended up in tears once. best game ever created

[nyanuwu]

7:14 Fun fact (from someone who cooks and obsesses over perfecting all forms of cooked egg): That liquid at the bottom comes from overcooking scrambled eggs. The proteins shrink up with heat and squeeze out moisture.

[airakorainies]

19:03 I seriously love that the overwhelming amount of warnings about shaking a baby are included lol. As someone who works in childcare, learning about 'Shaken Baby Syndrome' is soooo important especially because it can be caused by something most people don't even think about. Like no one (at least you hope so) makes the conscious decision to shake a baby- but heats of emotional action are a thing! So constantly plastering everywhere the importance of being gentle with the babies is so nice. Because like- imagine a kid whose gonna be an older sibling playing the game. It's a nice (kind of) subtle way of teaching how to gently take care of babies.

[dretterath]

As a girl who was a kid in 2006, I can confirm I did play cooking mama and I still think about her tips as I cook today

[sirartist]

My favorite thing about the way Cooking Mama was advertised was instead of saying "Hey, do you not like the food at home? We'll teach you how to cook!" they went with "You need a new mother entirely and we will replace her" 💀💀

[officialblimp]

i always thought the shopping mini game was so odd and bizarre until i developed social anxiety and realized that the whole game is basically a social anxiety simulator

[nurri]

Okay but the not shaking the baby bit is surprisingly educational. Shaking newborns can cause them brain damage, and its been recognized as symptom of abuse. That cooking mama was teaching about that, even if not saying it directly, is so cool

[patrickistruck]

THEY'RE TWO DIFFERENT PEOPLE??

first time watching, genuinely thought it was a long complicated bit, until the sudden realisation that there is more than one guy

[KelsomaticPDX]

“I’m sure they know *something* about cooking”
*fails to use can opener*
“Huh. Nevermind 😐”

[EddyBurback]

so you flip a can opener the wrong way one time and everyone is suddenly mean to you

cool. that’s so awesome. i have opened many cans before its just been a while please be nice to me

[nuggdimmadome]

I am a classically French trained chef and I legit count cooking mama as an inspiration for joining the field.

[aud]

I was deeply obsessed with Cooking Mama 2 when I was a kid. I legit partially credit it for my enduring love of cooking to this day. Not necessarily because the mini games translated that well to cooking skills, but because it introduced me to a lot of new dishes my parents didn’t cook, which inspired me to learn to cook them my self.

[BigElbows]

It's hilarious that mama named her kids "Apple" and "Strawberry". Also, the heavy japanese accent just makes the experience better

[akirasaito]

Mama is such an obvious stereotype of a Japanese housewife that I was surprised by people's reaction to her marital status lol

[gscotty]

Mama being married is the biggest plot twist I never expected. Thank you Burbacks for bringing this to our collective attention.

[Somedudenamedtito]

Honestly, I'm really glad that they emphasize not shaking the baby even if its super memeable. At least its memorable, might be the first exposure kids have to shaken baby syndrome.

[Beanberries]

9:49 “you’re the directions” reminds me of when a doctor from a walk in clinic wrote “due to medical reasons”on my referral

[iang.]

6:48 “we decided to do something a little harder than popcorn”

**accidentally cooks eggs so long they look like popcorn**