Pizza Cooking Games

Rolf's Fun Time Pizza Making Extravaganza

• Players must keep their number of mistakes to a minimum when playing "Rolf's Fun Time Pizza Making Extravaganza," accessible at the Cooking Games7site. Starting with blank crusts, players drag the correct amount of toppings to pizza orders, and must complete a specified number of pizzas, never having more than 10 orders waiting for fulfillment. Once players reach level three, they continue adding toppings, but they also inherit oven duties, placing pizzas in the stoves and cutting into slices. Players must keep an eye on the timer, otherwise the pizzas will burn. Burnt pizzas count as mistakes; once players reach five mistakes, the game ends.

Customer Interaction Games

• Players add customer service to their duties in "Pizza Mania," accessible at the Fupa site. Players drag crust to the pan, drag customers' requested ingredients to the crust and drag pizzas to the oven for baking. When a pizza pops out, players drag it to the customer who ordered it. Customers leave in a huff if they do not receive timely and accurate service, and players must reach daily monetary goals to advance from level to level. Once players earn a sufficient amount of money, they may purchase upgrades such as eggs (which result in higher-priced pizza) and coffee/soda machines.

  Customers rate players' performance in "Papa's Pizzeria," accessible at the Papa Louie site. Upon customers' arrival, players take orders and move between stations by clicking "Topping Station," "Baking Station" and "Cutting Station" on the top right of the screen. Players must drag the appropriate amount of toppings onto the pizza, divide them equally onto sections and watch that the pizza does not bake longer or shorter than requested. Once customers receive their order, they rate players on "Waiting," "Toppings," "Baking" and "Cutting" performance, as tips depend on all of those service factors. Every time players reach a target tip range, they upgrade in job title and receive new customers.

Real Pizza Cooking Games

• Children may play with various pizza playsets, preparing and serving pizza to "customers." However, kids also can use an Easy-Bake Oven and Snack Center or regular ovens to make pizza. In all cases, parents or adult supervisors should be on hand to supervise. Aside from adults' supplies, kids may use products such as Hasbro's "Easy Bake Dessert Pizza" or various mini-pizza cooking kits from Sassafras Enterprises .

  Kids may play competitive games, in which adults choose winners based on end products and overall performance. For example, kids compete to see who can prepare dough and cook a pizza the quickest and with the tastiest results. When it comes to a regular stove, kids should inform adult supervisors when to put the pizza in and when to take it out.

  For "Pizza Around the World," kids compile a list of ingredients associated with food from a particular geographic region, and create pizza toppings. Kids research the toppings' origins and report the information back to the adult; adults then choose the winner based on taste and accuracy of the reported information.

  Kids may compete to make the best-looking pizza faces, using the following vegetable toppings: shredded carrots, spinach, and spaghetti squash (for hair); fresh mozzarella, olives, pepperoni and tomato slices (for eyes); anchovy, basil leaf and pepper slice (for nose); and pepper slices, sausage pieces and sliced onion (for eyes).