Cooking Dash

by Amanda Nettgen
(Download-Free-Computer-Games.com)

Cooking Dash will you you crumbling under the pressure as she is now preparing other people's food. She may have been a bit too quick in letting her cook, Cookie, go, because now she has too much on her plate.

Some parts of Cooking Dash will be familiar if you've played Flo's other games. Others are completely original.

For example, the customers are many of the same people you've seen in DinerTown already (some new patrons are Tough Guys and Hippies). They still get their color-coded placemats and seats.

The main ingredient in the success of Cooking Dash? The meal assembly is sometime pretty easy to complete with a click, or can be much more involved. The proper raw protein must be chosen and added to the pot/oven, for one. All of the hot meals have to be checked for 'doneness'; if it burns, you've failed.

As if this weren't enough to keep you on your toes, new customers keeping pouring in all the time (and some dislike each other). Some get cranky and try to trip you up, while other insist on multiple food items to complete their meal. And don't forget, it's still your job to collect dishes and money!

Cooking Dash is a nicely polished time management game. It does feel it could sometimes give you heart palpitations... and not because of all those mouth-watering dishes, either.