Free cooking games

Three kinds of kitchen

Copper Pot Kitchen is our biggest cooking game. Every dish is a short run of real steps, and there are 19 of them to learn: swipe to chop, hold to sear until the gauge hits green, stir in circles, pour to a line, crack an egg on the rim, toss and catch a pancake. Each step is graded Perfect, Great, Good or Oops, and the dish comes out with one to three stars. There are 94 dishes, from egg on toast to wood-fired pizza and sushi rolls, and your back-alley stall can grow through six locations up to The Copper Crown Rooftop.

Dumpling Dash is fast time management. Cats, pandas, bunnies and owls sit at your counter, and you steam dumplings and buns, fry spring rolls and keep the tea coming before their patience runs out. A day lasts about 90 seconds. The story runs 30 days with up to three stars each, and Endless keeps the shop open until three customers walk out.

Caramel Row is a sweet shop where every treat is made by hand. You temper chocolate, cook caramel to the right amber, pull taffy and spin lollipops, then box it all up for a line of shoppers. The market stall grows into a chocolate factory with its own tasting tour.

Cook at your own pace

If the clock stresses you out, you're covered. Copper Pot's Chef's Table has no guests and no clock, and Relaxed kitchen runs full shifts where nobody leaves and nothing burns. We made that mode with young chefs in mind. Caramel Row has the Candy Kitchen, which works the same way. Both pay half price for calm cooking, but three-star results still count toward mastery.

Daily shifts and leaderboards

Copper Pot and Caramel Row each have a daily challenge with the same dishes and the same guests in the same order for every player, so the leaderboard is a fair test of hands. Both also pay a share of your daily score into your real shop. Dumpling Dash has Daily Rush, one busy day with the full menu and a 90 second clock. Sign in and your kitchen saves to your account, so it follows you from phone to computer.

Chasing three stars on every plate? Our article on how to get three stars every time explains exactly how Copper Pot grades a dish. For more shop games where you learn a craft and grow a business, see tycoon and business games.

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