Can we really learn some cooking with this?

[Rodrigo]

title, lols, i can barely make a fried egg.

[Osamaru]

Yes and No? The general idea is there, and a lot of the recipes, while they might not "work" per-say, at the very least stay true to the heart of the Recipe.

I.E. You won't learn any real skills, outside of things like Prepping, Time and Kitchen Management, and stuff like that, but at the very least you might find some intresting ideas that cause you to look up a real recipe.

[tommy]

Originally posted by Captein:

title, lols, i can barely make a fried egg.

Cooking requires not only knowledge but also a ton of practical manual skills. Game won't teach you that. Recipes are based on real life, they have beed adjusted for the game to be enjoyable but all the food made in game would be edible IRL. As stated in another thread, although the game won't teach you to cook like a professional, it might be a good starting point for developing passion for cooking :)

[Sir Gigachad of Thundercock]

To make it short and simple, you can learn Recipes, and about some ingredients, but you won't learn the skills involved. Which you can learn in youtube anyway.

[SonOfMyst]

This is going to sound hokey, but if you spend enough time in a kitchen environment, you gain a really strange sixth sense about various things. You know inherently what is wrong and right. You're magnetically drawn back to timers that are about to go off. You hit flow states where your hands work faster than you thought they could. I ran a pizza shop in a mall, I wasn't the manager, just the Asst. Manager, but he was usually over getting drunk in Red Robin. Running that shop as efficiently as I could honestly boiled down to me doing most of the prepping and cooking while Majin, Maria, or whoever else was in that day fended off customers. I could have prepping done, the table full, the dishes cleared, the floors swept, and me walking out the door saying "Just do the dishes and the numbers, everything else is ready for tomorrow." Or us out of there early if I myself closed.

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This game might teach you the important appliances in the kitchen(I was impressed it had a steamer), and it will teach you some recipes that can be time adjusted and cooked, but it will probably never teach you that sense. It is a cooking simulator, but cannot simulate a workplace environment. The main skill it does teach is time management, and once you get that down, it opens up a lot of possibilities in the workplace.

For me, and the workers under me, the MOST important skill is turning around and doing something else when you are done with the task at hand. If I have to tell you what to do, I've already failed at my job.

[InstableMonster]

You can learn what is needed for a recipe, as far as actually cooking it though not really

[Laza]

You might get some inspiration but no actual skills. Those are only earned by trying and failing

[majri.victor]

I think the only way you actually learn from VR cooking is when u need to buy the actual ingredients and then they use floating windows or something to show how its done. But it would only be optimal on the vision pro (at this time) due their headset having a much better AR quality. I own a quest 3 and while AR is nice for some things its not really optimal to do stuff IRL with the headset on and in fact I get a bit dizzy while using it. Ive tried using quest 3 to do laundry but its annoying.

[Fiona the Gamer]

Originally posted by Rodrigo:

title, lols, i can barely make a fried egg.

Not really, but you can get some inspirations.

But to make fried egg is practice. Try making basic grilled cheese sandwich, for me it's an easy meal to do.

I hope you are not having a hard time preparing cold cereal, just pour it to the bowl.