featuring four special episodes. Footballer: Franco the Footballer visits the cafe and Small enjoys playing football even though it's almost as big as him! Small find...
A review by sewbizzie on Big Cook Little Cook - We Love To Cook (DVD) March 4th, 2009
Author's product rating:
Did you enjoy it?
Liked it
Story
Good
Characters / Performances
Good
Special Effects
Good
How does it compare to similar films?
Good
Advantages:
Fun for Children
Disadvantages:
The Songs Annoy Me
Recommend to potential buyers:
yes
Full review
What a lovely start to the week I had when my eldest’s school phoned and told me they were closed due to a burst pipe. Therefore my boys decided that they would spend the morning watching some of their DVD’s, this one being the first. Big Cook Little Cook is a show which is on the Cbeebies channel. It features Big Cook Ben and Little Cook Small who run a café and each day they have one customer and spend the show making a special meal for the customer.
During the beginning of the show when the customer arrives we get a story from little cook Small’s story book which involves him helping the customer and then we go to Big Cook Ben’s cook book for a recipe. After the ingredients are sorted out there is usually one missing or the cooks want to find out more about on of the items they will be using so Little Cook Small flies off on his spoon to teach us more about it. When he returns they finally start their cooking and the customer finally gets to eat and after the cleaning up is done the empty plate comes back and always has a note with it. Throughout each show there are rhymes which the cooks say and these are used in all of the episodes so the children get to know them and can say them and sing along to the songs.
The show always follows the same routine which I think is good for children as they know what is going to happen and how the show works. Each episode runs for about 10-15 minutes which is a great length as my boys don’t start to get bored with it and do actually sit watching the whole thing. I also find that my boys do learn from this show from the trips Little Cook Ben goes on to find out how food and ingredients are made and grown.
The DVD which we have does contain 5 episodes which include:-
Footballer - Franco the Footballer visits the café.
Clown - Charlie the Clown arrives at the café where Ben is dressing up as a clown.
Dentist - Denis the Dentist is treated to a melon and fruit smile
Disco Dancer - A J the Disco Dancer arrives much to the cooks delight
Bonus Episode - Racing Driver - Robert the Racing Driver arrives to be filled up with food
The DVD does also have some bonus features which include :-
The Bonus Episode Sing a Long to the Cooking Songs Play Small’s brilliant game Enjoy Fantastic Menus
We have watched the bonus episode but none of the other bonus material as the game would cause too many arguments over who’s turn it was and who had be playing it for longest. Also we do not need the sing along song as my boys already know them all so well.
Inside the DVD case we did have a small cook book which does have some interesting and fun things to cook. We have not tried them out yet but we do quite often visit their website for other recipes which have always turned out well and they are very easy to follow.
The DVD was released in 2005 and has a total running time of 75 minutes. This is now available for only a few pounds on both Amazon and EBay.
I do recommend this DVD to all fans of the show as my boys love watching it and learning how food grows and is made. They also like the fact that it is short episodes so they don’t have to sit and watch the whole DVD if they don’t want to they can just pick and choose which episodes they want to see. From my point of view I can handle the daily episode on the Cbeebies channel but watching them back to back on this DVD did get to me slightly and after a bit the songs did become annoying and to make it worse they got stuck in my head and I was humming and singing them all afternoon!
Highly recommend fun and educational DVD which my boys love!
Advantages: kids love it, teaches kids hygiene and satety Disadvantages: you have to clean up the kitchen after they've tried to cook stuff!!
...Welcome to our Cafe
Big Cook, Little Cook
Want you to come and play
Meeting all the friends we cook for
Sharing stories, tripsand fun
Big Cook, Little Cook will cook for everyone!"
does that sound familiar? If not, and you have kids it won't be long until your humming along too!
If you haven't seen it i'll explain. Shown on CBeebies Big Cook, Little Cook are a genius culinary duo! The 2 characters Big Cook Ben and Little Cook Small run a cafe ... ...read out the ingredients and Big Cook Ben will get them and lo behold, there is always something missing! So Little Cook Small tootles off on his "magic" spoon (i guess its a broomstick for chefs???) to get the missing ingredient! For instance in the football episode we are missing Cress, and the kids get to see how its grown and the clown is missing strawberries and so Little Cook meets a little girl and her mother and go strawberry picking so the ...
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Advantages: get kids in to cooking Disadvantages: have to watch it at least ten times a day
this programme is great.... i seem to spend most of my time watching kids programmes these days, but i am kind of getting used to it..
This one really consists of two cooks, one is the main chef.. he is a normal sized adult and does all the cooking, and some really daft dancing, the other is a small helper cook, he is about the size of a small doll, and he does all the mixing and singing and some more daft dancing.. which really makes me giggle ... ...is really good at letting the children no what they are going to make and making it sound fun.. makes me want to cook... he he... and the little one as the food is cooking goes on his flying spoon and travels around looking for interesting things... for example one day he flew to a farm to see where the eggs came from and how they got in to the shops... so really good info the kids... covers most questions that your children will ask about cooking... ...
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