5 Creative Food Games You Can Play
March 21, 2012
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5 Creative Food Games You Can Play
While California culinary schools and cooking classes are not always known for their game playing, getting creative with your food can be a great way to express your culinary interests with family and friends. It is also a great way to get the picky eaters in your family to think about the food on their plate in a new way. The next time you need to liven up a party or BBQ consider breaking out on of these fun food games.
Waffle Tetris:
What you will need: 5-6 square waffles. Large surface.Tape.1-2 players.
Cut your waffles up into as many creative shapes as you can come up with and distribute them to the players. Each player takes their waffle pieces and tries to stack them upwards on the surface. The player with most complete stack wins the game. The best part is if you played on a clean surface, you get to eat the waffles afterwards.
Egg toss:
What you will need: 1 raw egg. 2 players. Open space.
The object of this game is simple. Two players stand facing each other about 2 feet apart. One tosses the egg to the other. Once the egg has been passed, each player takes a step back and tosses the egg to the other player. As you get further and further back the game becomes more and more fun as you never know when the egg is going to break on you. The player that has the egg break in their hands loses the round and usually has to clean up the mess. You can play this game with a water balloon as well and it’s much more fun to lose this way.
Name that condiment:
What you will need: A fridge full of jars of stuff that usually hang out in the door panel, a blindfold, 1 glass of water, 1 spoon, and 1 very trusting participant.
The person who is going to be doing the tasting puts on the blindfold and usually sits near the open fridge. The other player will choose something from the fridge and take a spoon full of a condiment or sauce or dressing and feed it to the person who is blindfolded. If the person guesses correctly they win, if they guess incorrect, they have to keep going until they get it right. The fun in this game is trying to pick something that the blindfolded person will not recognize and watching their reaction to eating a spoon full of something that they usually don’t eat.
Hamburger stacker:
What you will need: 40-50 hamburgers. Hamburger buns.2-3 players.
This game is best at a large bbq where the food will not go to waste. This game is very, very simple. Take the bottom of a hamburger bun and you try to stack as many cooked hamburgers on top of it before it falls over. This sounds easy but it is not. As the hamburger juice and weight starts to affect the bun at the bottom it can topple your stack pretty quickly. The looser usually has to clean up the mess and serve the hamburgers to all the guests.
Good cheese or bad meat:
What you will need: 3-4 very smelly cheeses. 3-4 spoiled pieces of meat. 1-2 brave players. Blindfold.
This game is simple. The people who will be doing the guessing put on the blindfold and will have either a smelly cheese or bad piece of meat put in front of them and they have to guess what it is just by smell alone. You have to have a strong stomach to play this game, but it is quite fun to play with a glass of wine and a few people who can appreciate sharing a good smelly cheese with you after the game is over, provided they have not walked out on you for making them play this odoriferous game.
If you enjoy cooking as much as you enjoy playing with your food consider enrolling in cooking classes in one of the many great California culinary schools.
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