How Nintendo Can Help You Cook

Nintendo’s new super-sized DSi XL portable gaming system hit stores this weekend. One of the device’s key “games” also went on sale: An interactive cook book. We took both for a spin to see how they did.

America’s Test Kitchen: Let’s Get Cooking looks and feels an awful lot like a re-imagining of 2008’s Personal Trainer: Cooking. This time around, though, the digital cookbook has 300 recipes better designed to fit the typical American palate. Or so I’m told.

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Much more importantly though, Nintendo touts this as one of the games that proves why having a bigger screen on a bigger portable gaming device is so important. The DSi XL, they say, is designed for more than one person to look at the screen at the same time.

I decided to test out that claim by accepting a little cooking challenge from Nintendo, preparing a full meal from appetizer to dessert with the help of the DSi XL, America’s Test Kitchen and my secret weapon, my 8-year-old son.

Check out Details Magazine and Parents TV’s take on the challenge as well.

P.s. They don’t have a secret weapon.

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