Roxie's Kitchen: Tuesday Taco
Cooking Fast 4 Steak
Hot Dog Bush
Roxie's Kitchen: Cheesecake
Blonde Sofia: Thanksgiving Party
Tasty Shawarma
Cooking Fever: Happy Chef
Cooking Playtime: Chinese Food
Roxie's Kitchen: King Crab
Cooking in the City of Winds
Grandma Recipe: Ramen
Roxie's Kitchen: Japanese Curry
Roxie's Kitchen: Ice Cream Waffle
Chef Right Mix
Little Cupcake Maker
Churros Ice Cream
Grandma Recipe: Nigiri Sushi
Dream Chefs
Ellie Thanksgiving Day
Yummy Pancake Factory
Roxie's Kitchen: Freakshake
Pancake Cake Treat
Ultra Pixel Burgeria
Fluffy Pancake Maker
Roxie's Kitchen: Sushi Roll
Baby Olie Birthday Party
Blonde Sofia: Tteokbokki Fever
Cooking Street
Roxie's Kitchen: Vietnamese Pho
HotDog Maker
Bakery Chef's Shop
Cooking Live
Desktop Only
French Fry Frenzy
Baby Cathy Ep16: Goes Sick
Baby Cathy Ep26: 2nd Birthday
Birthday Cake for Mom
Baby Hazel Cooking Time
Diary Maggie: Love is Caring
Cooking Frenzy
Valentine's Day Surprise Dessert
Pizza Cafe Oddbods
Make Ice Cream Cone Wafer Biscuits
Roxie's Kitchen: Carbonara Pasta
Roxie's Kitchen: Indian Samosa
Baby Mary Goes Shopping
Roxie's Kitchen: Birthday Cake For Mom
Cooking Fast: Halloween
Desktop Only
Yummy Super Burger
Travel Girls
Coocing World Reboot
Audrey's Mood Swings
Kitchen Basket
Roxie's Kitchen: Kimchi Jjigae
One Cup of Cocoa
Desktop Only
Roxie's Kitchen: Spring Roll
Kaiten Sushi
Max Mixed Cuisine
Grandma Recipe: Apple Pie
Roxie's Kitchen Pizzeria
Pizza Realife Cooking
Ice Cream Sandwich
Kids go Shopping Supermarket
Desktop Only
Bunnicula's: Kaotic Kitchen
Roxie's Kitchen: Mini Tart
Cooking games started during the early days of browser games. One of the first cooking games on Y8 was an old barbeque (BBQ) game made as an advertisement game to promote a brand to players. This trend continued, one the first sponsored games I remember was called Better BBQ Challenge. another old yet addicting game was only known in english as chinese meat game. around the same time, the famous hot dog bush was released as a parody to then President George W. Bush. The game depicted the American president as a hot dog vendor on the streets. This game perfected the balance of fun cooking games and cemented this subgenre of games into the history books.
Since then, cooking games have grown to sometimes include actual recipes, semi realistic instructions that can be applied to real cooking, and of course simulated cooking. Games are a good entry point for young cooks who may want to cook meals in the future but maybe are too young to be working a hot dog stand. Even though you can’t eat a virtual hamburger, it is still very rewarding to learn new dishes or aspects to the cooking world like managing a business.