Mixed Review for Think Wow Toys ICEE and Chuck E Cheese Pizza Maker

December 12, 2009 | 26 Comments | 7,223 views

New on the market from the Wowee Think Wow toy line comes the EZ-2 Make! selection of toys that introduces kids to the science and fun behind cooking in the kitchen. These are a great way to have a little cooking fun with the younger children in a safer environment than your kitchen cooking appliances.

EZ2Make – Fun Food in minutes! is a fun and innovative line of real food-making products that lets kids interact with their parents in the kitchen and make fun and delicious treats in a matter of minutes! EZ2Make! features the most recognizable fun food brands such as ICEE^®, Chuck E. Cheese’s^®, Mrs. Fields^®, Jolly Rancher^®, Cold Stone Creamery^®, Jamba Juice^® and more!

ICEE® Instant! Slushy Maker

Features

Makes delicious ICEE® Slushies in under 5 minutes!
Sturdy cup shaker with aluminum canister
Three ICEE® slushy flavoring mix included ( watermelon, cherry and orange)
Easy to clean
Food ingredients made in the USA
Easy to follow instructions included

Thinking back to the yummy ICEE’s I had as a child, the ICCEE Instant Slushy Maker brings the fun of making one right in your home. The process is simple enough for even my 8 year old son to do with a little supervision. By mixing ice, water and salt into the lower chamber of the ICEE maker, it creates a super cooling effect that freezes the slushie flavor and water in the top chamber.

After 4 minutes of continuous shaking, we discovered a very sweet treat. While it didn’t quite have the consistency of an ICEE, it did however make a very smooth sorbet like texture that tasted as good as it smelled.

Retailing at $10.99 for the ICEE starter kit and $5.99 for the refills, I would put this in the good buy category. Available at Toys R Us, K-Mart and other select retailers.

Chuck E. Cheese’s® Pizza Maker

Features

Makes delicious pizzas in mom’s conventional microwave!
Cooks in one minute!
Conveniently designed storage station and accessories
Includes dough mixings, sauce and cheese mixings
Makes 4 cheese pizzas!
Food ingredients made in the USA
Easy to follow instructions included

From all outward appearances, this looks like a fun cooking project, especially since most kids love their pizza like nothing else. The process is semi easy, basic ingredients and mixing, quick microwave time and nice visual instructions.

The downfall of this product is the ingredients themselves as you’ll soon see.

In step one, you and your child will measure and mix dry dough ingredients with water, as we did here. Then you kneed the dough onto the included microwave tray which can be quite the sticky process without perfect measurements.

Next, we cooked the dough which resulted in more of a lumpy biscuit than pizza dough. Following the instructions, a mixture of ketchup (not provided in the kit) and the included dry sauce and dry cheese ingredients was added to the top, then microwaved for a quick 12 seconds.

The result…

To be perfectly honest, it tastes as bad as it looks. The dough is chunky and flavorless, topped off by a strange flavor of parmesan cheese sauce that just doesn’t quite resemble any pizza flavor we’ve ever experienced. While my son had fun making the pizza and the time we spent together, it just wasn’t edible by anyone.

Retailing at $16.99 for the Chuck E Cheese Pizza Maker starter kit and $6.99 for refills, this is one I would say your money is best spent on a delivery pizza.

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