I could definitely see the reasons why people would get addicted to miniature cooking.
If we are talking about Miniature cooking, you should take it quite literally, because it really means cooking with tiny portions of real food.
There are lots of famous channels on YouTube where dishes are prepared in miniature form with extreme precision.
So let's go and dive into these peculiar little (and working!) miniature kitchens!
updated 09/12/23
What Is Miniature Cooking in a mini kitchen?
The nice thing about Miniature cooking is that it is indeed real cooking.
These miniature kitchens, for example, can contain real working mixers, a working mini stove, and a mini oven where you can even bake your own mini pizza. You can also add a REAL working miniature TV to the scenery! Sometimes there's even running water!
There are even miniature cooking books on the market, with plenty of recipes to recreate very small dishes at home in miniature sizes.
And even those miniature cooking books are just a few centimeters large.
Everything is so small that you sometimes need tweezers to put the ingredients in place.
Because with your human fingers, sprinkling a bit of salt or oregano on a pizza would be a bit hard.
What Is The Actual Point Of Miniature Cooking?
Well, first of all, it is a fantastic form of dieting and you will lose weight in no time!
*sarcasm button of 🙂
So what exactly is this attraction to miniature cooking, where sometimes over 200 million people worldwide watch a miniature cooking show for minutes and minutes, while someone is making a miniature lasagna?
I think it is because there is something extremely soothing about seeing someone preparing a very small meal with extreme precision.
There is something mesmerizing and relaxing about watching a miniature knife cutting ingredients to miniature size, while a mini spoon is stirring in mini pans and bowls.
And watching a bit of cheese being grated into mini strings on the world's smallest grater makes my mouth water.
Is Miniature cooking real and Is the food in a tiny kitchen real?
Of course in a tiny kitchen not everything there is real food. (spoiler alert, the mini-eggs aren't real eggs)
There is a distinction between edible miniature food, like we are talking about in this blog post, and inedible mini food.
But the miniature food that is being prepared in the next YouTube videos below sure is real and miniature cooking itself is definitely real! You could eat the dishes if you want!
Although the recipes are sometimes a bit different than the recipes from real cooking because that makes