Kitchen for Kids Review

I’ve been looking over cookbooks for kids, so Kitchen For Kids cookbook by Jennifer Low caught my attention. The subtitle states “100 amazing recipes your children can really make.” The book uses no sharp knives, no stove-top cooking, and kid-tested recipes.

Although I can appreciate the author’s sentiments at the beginning of the book, wanting to find a book that her children can use, I’m just not very impressed by the book.

I’m not sure why the author chose to use no stove-top cooking. My children love to cook on the stove-top because they can see the dish transformed before their very eyes. Children need to learn kitchen safety, so why not help them learn it?

The author does you real ingredients and not just a bunch of box mixes like some cookbooks do. The only problem is that less than a third of the book is designated for meals. The rest of the book is all dedicated to desserts!! Baking with kids is fun, but you can’t just bake all the time. Kids need to learn how to cook meals and not always sugary desserts.

The recipes seem easy enough to follow and the pictures look good. To me this just looks like an adult cookbook though. There is a recipe on one page and a picture on the other. You don’t see any pictures showing you the steps to take with the recipe and you don’t see any real people in any of the pictures. Seeing other children cook can help inspire children to cook too.

If you’re looking for a cookbook that you can use to direct your children in baking, then this book will work for you. But if you’re looking for an eye appealing, kid friendly cookbook, you’ll want to look at one of the other cookbooks that I reviewed here, because this one is kind of a dud.