Can Cooking Mama make you good at cooking? 

Is not that...exactly the plot of Coraline?

@@Cats-TMI like how saying “is not that” sounds weirder than saying “isn’t that” despite meaning the same thing

​@@alex.g7317 I have been typing without contractions for years yet I still have trouble typing "is not that", it feels so unnatural even if correct.

@@Cats-TM well yeah since without contractions people generally say "is that not", not "is not that"

@@DarkkestNite That is… a good point. Wow, I never thought of that! Thank you, I will probably switch to that since it is easier to remember.

reminds me of "milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk"

Literally that part always stressed me out 😂

that's any minigame collection tbh

My brother and I used to play the shopping one together. When the mini game where you had to help the old lady put the things in the basket my brother would imitate her like "PUT THEM IN THE BASKET, I'M AN OLD GRANNY!!", and it would make me laugh so hard and take away some of the stress from playing that lol

@@tamkumi.180 wait that’s hilarious LOL😭 that mini game always stressed me the most

Having flashbacks to callmekevin punting a baby like a football.

Don’t shake the baby has been a joke I said for a while ever since i rewatched DanTDM’s video on that game a classic video if i may add

​@@Moebz818I'm so glad at least 7 other people have this as a shared memory

@@blankness8 it's definitely a core memory for me

SAME ITS MY BROTHER AND I's INSIDE JOKE

And all the crab water

o egg master how do i make the perfect fried egg runny yolk 🙏🙏🙏

​@@m0sslegive the eggs an ice bath before cooking

I came to say this also. Ty.

​@@m0ssle For this i dont recommend non stick pans because you cant get hot enough without disrupting the coating, if you have a stainless steel pan youre good to go You heat up a pan really well You can check if your pan is hot enough by throwing droplets of water on it If the droplets form little beads, its hot enough If the water form bubbly puddles, it needs to heat up more When its hot enough, you can put in your neutral high smoke point oil and then your egg Cover it because it splatters a lot and its gonna cook the top of the egg more so you wont get the snotty uncooked white It cooks really fast so dont look away If you want you can cut off the heat and let the residual heat cook for you If you did it well, the egg shouldnt stick to the pan and cleaning it up will be pretty easy (Sorry if i didnt explain it well its kinda hard to explain it without showing)

It’s ok you are learnding 😊

I mean who hasn’t spilled crab juice on their counter before? Nobody is perfect guys 🙄

better late than never pal!

"its just been a while" -i didn't know opening a can was a skill one could get rusty on over time.

@@graceMaximus papas going to ground you

cooking mama was honestly one of my favorite games on DS. it's probably why i love cooking even now as an adult

i think its just that he ever appears onscreen. like if betty crocker trotted out a Mister Crocker

@@gwennorthcutt421very apt comparison lmao

​@@gwennorthcutt421 he's too busy chasing fairies

​@@gwennorthcutt421Mr crocker would shake the internet honestly

@@rachelmayes3064 huh?

I hope you and whoever else is in this situation gets out of it as early as possible, with a healthy set of boundaries 👍

aw that’s such a shame, i hope one day you can overcome your fear and learn to cook, i personally prefer baking over cooking as i can find it relaxing, i would recommend some very simple cookies if you ever want to start, even if your parents are all over your business i hope they would at least enjoy the cookies!

The barrier of entry to being good at anything is being shit at first

@@cookiesandpudding8485 well, i know that, and i have no problem with not being good at something at first, that's not really the problem. the problem is i don't want my parents to know im trying to cook because they'll make a big deal about it because they always do when i do anything different than what i usually do and it's suffocating and stressful.

Hmm that sounds horrible :( I learned to cook from my grandma and mom. The easiest recipes in my eyes are the ones that go: Meat- Onions- Rest of vegetables- sauce- pasta or rice. (Like pasta or fried rice) Or just throw potatoes vegetables and meat with some oil and seasonings in the oven for half an hour, very easy and very delicious (you can look up online if cooking times differ). Also don’t be afraid to experiment :)

Yeah after some point the protein just gets so tight that it squeezes out every little bit of water and you end up with a nasty clump of grossness

I'm amazed how many (adult) people don't know about sbs. I've never been around a baby in my life and even I know about it

@@_stillborn it is strangely unknown despite how important it is to be aware of lol. I was aware of it even before going into childcare but I do wish more people knew about it. So it's little things like these itty bitty warnings in a cooking mama babysitting game that just makes me appreciate it more lol

Makes more sense that her popping out bastard children lol

Where’s Cooking Papa

​@@liammcnicholas918Cigarette run

​@@iamnotjcook stop 💀

bro how can she be a mama if there's no papa?

LMAO SAME i thought hes just talking to himself 😭😭😭

They're fraternal twins

I never played cooking Mama, but anytime a game incorporated the mic, it was cringe. There was this Zelda enemy, where you had to make noise into the mic to make it vulnerable. I would just blow into the mic to trick it.

I would get so frustrated because if you had a fan blowing on you, it activated the mic. So I’d be on my way to a gold recipe and get screwed over because the mic thought my fan was me blowing on my sauce 😢

Dude, spirit tracks was my first Zelda game, and the controls are so absolutely dogshit it took me TWELVE YEARS to not just give up during the first section. In also did get the game when I was really young though, so..

@@sarahlulubells id try playing it on the plane, literally only way not to set off the mic was to muffle it under some blankets. good times

my siblings and i would rub the microphone bc it worked better lollll

I've got a really simalar story to that. As a kid I had a Tamagotchi DS game that had you run all these different shops and each shop was a minigame. My favourite one was the takoyaki shop where you'd make the amount of takoyaki requested by the customer. A few years ago something reminded me of that game and it caused me to look up a recipe for it. It ended up making me really interested in japanese cuisine as a whole, especially their street food and there's tons of recipies I wanna try. I still haven't made takoyaki yet because you need a special pan for it and I haven't got one yet but one day I will.

Should'a taken a Hello Fresh one instead

​@@KirbyCom apparently, HelloFresh is worse

@@danmakes2497idk how it is on the creator side but for consumers hf wasn’t too bad. I just did the trial like a few years ago. However, I don’t think it specified how much of each thing u used either

@@danmakes2497 I've used Hello Fresh, honestly don't have any issues with it. You're honestly better off getting the recipes that you like after a while and just buy the ingredients and make it yourself. Saves money since you can get a bigger portion for a fraction of the price

@@danmakes2497 they use monkey labor, sounds better in my book

That got me wide-mouthed and stupified! I was not prepared for it to be that truthful 🙃

in their defense, sometimes can openers suck!

I don't know why, but your honest addition of the emoji had me absolutely cracking up inside. I even smiled.

Look up the "smooth edge" can opener. They will change your life.

@@fonsecxv if you use a can opener you are opening a can so does that make you a can opener too, are you both can openers?

i mean, she DOES have a crafting mama game-

Apple is strange but “strawberry” is common name in Japanese (Ichigo)

@@Nakuke3 yes! "strawberry" is common but i still think their names are a cute reference to the cooking theme! 🍓🍎

Apple isn’t as strange when in Japanese (Ringo)

@@StrawberryMoonlights I have never in my life heard of someone called Ringo. Most people would consider it a キラキラ名前 (shining name, basically a cringy name some wacky parent made up).

Lol. 😂 This comment made me laugh harder then it probably should have.

when I had this game on the wii as a kid and I used to throw the baby because it was funny. So that was probably the main effect but at least it reminds you of the real life risks

Oh yeah he drained it… all over his counter

Huh yeah, now that you say that, that makes perfect sense. Like, I feel like it is obvious to drain it, like canned tuna. But by the amount of liquid, it does look like they didn't drain it...

@@Npi13O7 Wait, they just used....the full can? I thought they were trying to match the proportions in the game

@@KirbyCom I feel like they may have used the whole can, and then they added milk. Like you can see the crab in the mixture weirdly moist and then they adden the half and half milk to the mixture, making it weirdly goopy.

Exactly what I came to comment 😂

HMMMM 👀 That sounds.... Worth a look.

The theme song for crafting mama is also a banger

very proud of you, chefs are a great addition to the world!

honestly the slicing and dicing really stuck with me since i was a kid lol

​@spudrina I've been learning to cook and adding veggies to my meals (I was raised vegetable-less so I need to learn how to prepare them in a way I like) and I've had no issue slicing and dicing stuff like peppers and onions solely because Cooking Mama taught me, and I immediately knew I'd probably like stir fried veggies because of it, too - and I was right.

@@purelysmetalnightcore if you have an oven (especially with a broiler drawer) it's a game changer. The basic prep for most veg people know is to boil it, but on a sheet pan with a couple shakes of olive oil and salt, then in the oven until it starts to turn a little black in places. Most people don't like broccoli because it gets gross when over-boiled, but it absolutely smacks if you roast it until it chars a bit. Also some things like snap or snow peas you put in the pot and as soon as the water hits a full rolling boil immediately take them off and rinse them in cold water or prep an icewater bath to dump them in (this is called blanching) and it results in nice crunchy and really vibrant green vegetables.

@@CircusFoxxo Thank you! My oven doesn't have a broiler drawer by my toaster oven/air fryer has a broiler setting so I will need to try that. I actually really like broccoli and have some veggies and salmon fillets ready to bake with olive oil and seasoning in a few days here on my next day off - I work really long shifts so I make super simple dinners on my work days.

@@purelysmetalnightcore Toaster oven will be the same thing in practice (high heat + relatively close to the heating element) it stays almost as crunchy as when it's raw but steams a little on the inside You can also use blackened seasoning or a mix like tony sacherie You can also move the rack in an oven and do "sheet pan fajitas", it would probably work out in a toaster oven / air fryer unit (AF being just a convection oven p much)

yea, it's better if you put it around the last minutes of baking

I'd argue it tastes less flavorful too since it has that added starch, and it messes with the texture as it prevents it from melting together as well. but it is serviceable if you don't want to grate your own cheese

He also used the wrong type of flour, pls use 00

Probably cause it was 480 degrees

@@anniemoss1402yeah i was gunna say, typical pizza cooking temp is like 425

They also apparently didn't drain the crab meat

​@@MustyMouseThey partially drained it. All over the table.

​@@MustyMouse wait how did they. how in the world did they not drain the crab meat. have they never used canned anything

​@@_bibi_s not everything in a can needs to be drained. Soup, for example.

@@carysbebard3690 you know what. fuck you. *drains your soup, leaving you with cubes of squishy vegetables and unseasoned chicken.*

Better start making those waffles

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Check out "smooth touch" can openers, they are awesome. Also the use of can opener is what bothered you? Leaving the liquid in the canned crab meat is what got to me.

@@heruhcanedean THAT TOO they didn't drain the water ohhhhhh it made me cringe so hard. I wanna cooking-mama these guys so bad and I'm in my early 20's 😭

​@@AloeSodaa it's wild. I was at a gas station one time and this lady around my age came up to me and told me she never pumped gas before and asked if I could teach her. I was around 20 at the time (23 now) still the craziest moment for me.

​@BronzedBeast I have severe social anxiety and am only now able to get my driver's license in my mid-20s. You never know what people are going through.

And I thought I was bad with cooking... Though in all fairness I never had crab meat. That being said, it's Saturday I should cook something instead of getting take out

i loved these games as a kid and yet i was terrified of the fire eyes for some reason lmao. if anything it put the fear of god into me to do better, so i guess it worked. i respect her strategy.

Cooking Mama 2 was my introduction to the games, even though my sister and I had asked for the "3rd one". Our mom got us the second one and even still, it was great. Just wish you could skip the bonuses, they're so loud and I don't want them lmao

@@ninakatz7916 I started with the Wii version as a 10 year old and would kick my older and little brothers butts at it allll of the time! It was such a fun game. Cooking Mama 2 Dinner With Friends for my DS was such a blast also. I had such fear but so much fun.

Honestly the fire eyes didn't scare me much, just made me confused like "Why does she have fire in her eyes? Doesn't that hurt?". If anything I was more scared of the Mama dragon that pops up if you get a perfect on any step in Cooking Mama Cookoff lol

Science Papa was so good

I had to google science papa bc this is the first im hearing of it as someone who grew up on cooking mama and I gotta say, science papa looks lit af. I wish I had that one as well, as a kid

they are trying to silence science papa

Was too broke for cooking mama so i got science papa. justice for papa!

Science Papa wasnt made by Majesco, but Activision. Apparently the developers of CM made a blog post or something like that in the voice of Mama saying this: "So you want some dirt on "Science Papa" to splash on your site? I'll shovel it. We dated briefly (when he had much better hair). And now he clearly wants a piece of the best-selling pie by associating himself with an incredibly successful, and I'll emphasize, happily married, woman. Frankly, he never appreciated my cooking and I grew weary of his tedious "experiments." You want real mind-bending science, go figure out how to make Toulouse Cassoulet for your next dinner party of 20 and let me know how it goes, Papa."

i love you sm

thank you for this comment :)

I am Eddy to enter the Tone-Zone

omg

I love you for that

Lmao that's hilarious

ikr... i was unprepared for the level of "not knowing how to cook". how tf do you not know how to use a can opener at that age bruh 😭

It was everything I was expecting 😂

Mama hadn't taught him that yet.

​@@annaxin2104 upper middle class shit

He was actually using it correctly you can’t reclose a can so with an automatic can opener (most modern ones) they are basically designed to chop the entire top off to prevent you from having to risk cutting your hands the other way from prying it open But I understand if it’s an uno “thanks for the cards we’ll take it from here” i think I learned it from hank green or generally the internet

tbh, cooking mama was nicer then my real mom in the kitchen lol

Lol I am not usually to get mad, but mama getting mad, would make me mad. 😅

Deadass?

@@doritostrawberries Ya, im being real. Im in the credits under Nick. I dont really have many juicy details though. Working on that game helped me get out of a terrible apartment and into a better gig.

What are your thoughts on the fact that the game was so poorly optimized that people thought it was mining bitcoin?

@DrUSB I think it's pretty funny. We obv had little time to optimize, + it was Unity3d game engine. Using nintendo switches to mine bitcoin is a hilarious concept. I'm kinda glad a mystery like that got attached to this game, because the real story is always less interesting.

so you're saying cooking mama carried society? very correct

I loved the crafting one! I actually used to play that or Cooking Mama 2 whenever I had a mental breakdown doing schoolwork in the middle of the night for years after lol. It probably did help me gain my masters of science tbh. Thanks, Mama

thank you cooking mama for creating a generation of master chefs i still want that squid ink spaghetti

So true I have crafting mama gardening mama and most of the cooking mamas 😂🤣

Those are all my loves too. I’m sad I missed these games!

Yes! I thought I was going crazy when people were obsessing over Cooking Mama and called it wholesome when the horror version was the only one I’ve tried 😅

im so glad this is a shared experience

The worst part is I liked the horror version so much. It didn't scare me like Peta assumed. Cause I knew the difference between actual food preparation and silly cartoon gore.

same! LMAO

Is this how I find out the horror version wasn't official 😭

Eddy burback martha stewart cross over

they’re like fraternal type sh

oh my god you just unlocked a memory I forgot about that

same my fixation on horror started young

I remember that and Y8. Rip flash games...

​@@sleepyoteYou can still play them on Flashpoint and websites use emulators so those also work.

I can't remember where I played it. I think it was on FRIV if yall ever played that. It was the only game site at my school that wasn't blocked and we played the games on there all the time. There was this cursed game that was a Sakura dating simulator and if you failed to get any of the boys attention a freaking cutscene played here she gave Shikamaru a BJ and literally nothing was censored. This happened at school and the worst is he shot a lil bit out onto her cheek and she gave a smile. 😭 Like bruh those are kids in that game and we were kids. We didn't need to be seeing that!

Funny brothers is the best name for them

Funny brothers is trademarked by THE Matt and Ryan from Oscar Nominated RU-vid Channel SuoerMega

@@Susan_87 SuoerMega? sorry, i only know SuperMega. get outta here with this phony crap!

(Spag)Eddy and (Riga)Tony. -stolen from another video comment

I will watch it when I wake up 🛌

She can’t find a 9-5 that will pay her because she spent so many years living the trad lifestyle 😭

@@loverrlee not the trad wife allegation 😂 😂 😂

Hey, she eventually opened that bakery

@@Stevonicus bakery going on the list, as well as patisserie for the sweet shop and camping

BOYFAILURE PAPA!!!

Epic analysis

And fortunately those cans have tabs so Eddy won’t need to struggle with the can opener.

They didnt drain the crab it was all the crab juice 😭 they're killing me over here

How to commit felonies, but not the good kind.

IM SORRY WHAT?!!!

@@chuckdontjudge Chuck, dont judge.

The problem with the eggs was that they continued to cook after being removed from the skillet. This suggests that the ideal time to remove them from the skillet is not when they are fully cooked, but rather just before.

The Wii version genuinely helped me get more confident with my knife skills.