Easy to use and clean and cooks decent meals. Ticks the boxes.

Advantages: Easy, clean, simple to use and well built.
Disadvantages: Not big enough to feed a large number of people.

...Now being a person that is always on the move often the hassle of a conventional oven is not attractive and in the same stroke the quality of microwave food is not that appealing so when this latest cooking gadget came on the market it naturally caught my attention. Now straight to the important stuff: It does what it claims to: I have had this item for a couple of months now and have had no problems whatsoever. I have grilled, roasted, baked, reheated and defrosted with perfectly fine results on numerous occasions. The instruction manual is easy to follow and accurate. It is built sturdily. My favourite attributes of this item: The ease of cleaning which is far easier than a conventional oven, you just fill it up with water squirt in some washing up liquid and set to wash or just do what I do most of the time and wash...

devsta 08.06.2009 · Read review
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Easy Recipes: Easy Cook!

Advantages: Pictures with every recipe, simple to follow.
Disadvantages: Frequency of issue

...I went into town this morning, and was in WHSmiths, trying to find a copy of the Good Food magazine, but they didn't have any in stock, to the left of the empty Good Food display rack were a pile of these BBC Easy Cook magazines, the pictures on the front encouraged me to buy it and see what it was like, as a change from the norm. >>> First impressions The title is bold, clear and easy to spot, if you were specifically looking for it. The subtitle REAL FOOD FOR BUSY PEOPLE, makes you feel that this could be a magazine worth looking at, with recipe ideas to help us all out. As we never seem to have the time to do anything nowadays!! There are some really tasty looking pictures of food on the cover, highlighting that the magazine has over 80 simple recipes inside, with some great ideas for chicken, solutions to fast family meals...

nicolaks1 01.10.2007 · Read review
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BBC Easy Cook: Cookery for Real People

Advantages: Full of ideas and advice for real people
Disadvantages: None I can think of

...My husband and I are trying to make our diet healthier by cooking more food from scratch rather than relying on the convenience foods that we were each brought up on. This is difficult when you're busy, skint and don't really know where to start, having never been taught to cook properly. That's where Easy Cook comes in. We came across issue two of BBC Easy Cook Magazine by pure chance when browsing the magazine section of the supermarket. We thought it looked different to other cookery magazines so we bought it to see what it was like. The title is probably what attracted us the most, and the fact that it is a BBC magazine and they have a reputation for high quality publications. After reading our first issue (I've never seen the actual first issue, I don't think it was sold in many places) we were completely hooked and have...

mandakins888 02.08.2006 (03.09.2006) · Read review
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cooking mama!!

Advantages: Cooks 120 diffrent recipes.
Disadvantages: there is a timer and you have to do it before the time runs out!

...Cooking mama on ds is kind of easy to play, just follow the rules really. This game has not been out for that long i thought i would buy it cause it looks quite good i always play it so be warned it addictive, u can get this game from any game store and tecso and adsa and stores like that, Gamestation,Eplay and game there really good store you can buy this game from. This game is round about £20-£30 now and is worth the price, the game age around to play it is 3+ it is easy like i have said but some parts are difficult to do. ~How to cook~ theres is many diffrrent ways to cook such as cutting and you have to move the knife one side and it cuts. ~other ways to prepare to cook~ tenderizing= you hate to move it from side to side as quick as you can but the meat is really tough to cut, slicing...

Paigeoleary 11.12.2007 · Read review
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Review of Cooking Mama (Nintendo DS)

BBC - Best British Cooks!

Advantages: Excellent magazine with lots of easy to cook recipes
Disadvantages: A few calorific puds

...What shall I cook for dinner tonight? As much as I love cooking, and since retiring have more time (or so I'm told!) I don't often plan menus in advance. I cook what I feel like on the day. But sometimes you want to try something new, maybe something easy and quick to prepare, but it must be tasty and look good - in other words look as if I've slaved over the stove preparing something wonderful for my loved ones! I love having magazines to browse through and spotted the BBC Easycook in Somerfields one day. I'm a fan of cookery programmes and often use the BBC website to find a recipe that I've seen cooked, so decided to fork out £2.50 for the magazine. Value for Money? ****************** Oh yes. I was amazed at how many recipes there were I would try, as I have shelves of cookery books and use only a few recipes from each of them...

jo145 03.10.2007 · Read review
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Cooking Mama DS - A Game For Everyone

Advantages: Bright - Vibrant and easy to play
Disadvantages: tedious, very tedious.

...I purchased Cooking Mama when it was released around Christmas time in 2006. It was not a game that I had asked for Christmas and while shopping it caught eye with its brightly designed and cartoon graphics on the front cover. I quickly picked up a copy and purchased it with delight. Cooking Mama is a cooking themed game that offers the player a chance to make 76 different recipes with an anime chef called cooking mama - Once you have made your recipes Cooking Mama will always rate how well you have done in creating different parts of the dish and how well you bring it all together. You go through the game doing different techniques such as pouring, chopping, slicing, frying, boiling, grating all the ingredients and cooking them correctly they give you t up and down. All is clearly shown to you and you can be shown various he...

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BBC Easy Cook

Advantages: Colourful, easy to follow recipes and useful general ideas.
Disadvantages: Sometimes needs a bit more detail.

...If you want to learn how to cook, then in this mag have a look. There's lots of recipes for you to try, and doesn't leave your kitchen like a pig sty. Whether it's sweet, healthy, veg or meat, this guide for you will be hard to beat. It gives you lots of cooking tips, and soon will have you licking your lips. It's got lots of ideas, from chefs of the telly and they give you great ideas for filling your belly. You don't need to be a Ramsay or White, just quick simple ideas that turn out just right. With lots of ideas and a reasonable price, you'll soon be making food that's dead nice. So don't hang around, have a quick look, you'll be surprised what you learn by reading easy cook....

JohnGillard 03.10.2007 · Read review
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Cooking Mama

Advantages: Fun & Addictive
Disadvantages: Repetitive For The Older Gamers

...Cooking Mama is a brilliant game for any age, however, it can get repetitive for the older gamers after a while. The game involves you making meals for Mama and she gives you a score out of 100 on how well you did, and depending on your score you can get a bronze, silver or gold medal. When you complete a meal it unlocks others for you to complete, and you can also combine different meals to make a new one. When I started to play this game I could not put it down because its so addictive to play. My favourite part of the game has definately got to be dicing and slicing different foods, however, I find peeling the shell off the boiled eggs really hard to do and still have yet to complete it! I don't know whether thats just me though that finds it so difficult!! Haha. Overall, it is very good value for money and I recommend this...

wondergirlxx 07.02.2008 · Read review
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Easy Cook magazine does what is says on the cover!

Advantages: Easy to read with something for everyone
Disadvantages: None

...Easy Cook magazine does what is says on the cover! It is a well designed magazine with eye catching covers, there is usually a good selection of cover features to attract you at the shop, and plenty to read and enjoy once you get home. The magazine is very well organised, with easy to find sections. There is something for everyone, I particularly enjoy those aimed at "feeding the kids" the recipes are easy to follow making cooking enjoyable rather than a chore. The aim of many features is cooking that saves you time, using well known and easy to get hold of ingredients. Each feature is brightly coloured with lots of images to give you a good feel as to what the end result is to look like. (or suppose to look like!) The magazine is a great read, from the most inexperienced cook to the wannabe's Delia Smith cooks, there is...

Tail-Swishing 03.10.2007 · Read review
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Get Cooking!

Advantages: See Review
Disadvantages: See Review

...I've never been a good cook but after my friend let me have a go on her Cooking Mama game I had to buy it for myself! Basically, you have to make a dish and at the end you get a grade from cooking mama, depending on how well you make the dish. The grades are Gold, Silver & Bronze with Gold being the best, Bronze the Worst. Cooking Mama is similar to games such as Wario Ware because of the fact you will be given a short amount of time to complete simple actions which can be anything in Cooking Mama such as slicing, mixing, pressing food , grating & even pouring! All these actions are done with the Stylus by swiping, tapping, or scribbling on the DS screen. When finishing the action, if you finish it perfectly, Cooking Mama will tell you, you are Very Good with a small gold badge underneath it , If you did okay she'll tell you, you did...

Julia95x 15.08.2008 · Read review
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