Due out later this year, Personal Trainer: Cooking is less a game than an electronic cookbook. While it probably won’t replace your tattered collection, this handy program does many things a cookbook can’t: It reads recipes to you while you cook (a simple voice command of “continue” moves the instructions along, saving your DS from messy hands). It includes video demos for cooking techniques that have never been easy to explain on the page, like cleaning and filleting fish. And its database of recipes (more than 200, according to Nintendo) is searchable by ingredient, region, and calorie count. The best thing about the “game,” though, is that it lets you change the number of servings on the fly, updating the ingredient measurements automatically. Who hasn’t screwed that one up?
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