What's Cooking

When you load the What's Cooking slot machine it is hard not to be impressed by the graphics. The Playtech game designers have taken things to another level with this game. As the name indicates the game has a food theme. It is also the first Playtech slot machine to use the 5 reel, 30 line format.

With 30 lines and the option to bet up to 10 coins per line you are looking a 300 coins per spin if you are going to play max bet. While your wins will be bigger if you bet max you can get away with just playing one line if you have a smaller budget. You won't miss out on the bonus feature. Coin sizes range from 1c to $5 so max bet ranges from $3 to a big $1500 per spin.

Top jackpot during normal play is 10,000 credits for five wild oven symbols. This pay is multiplied by your line bet so at max you would win a nice 100,000 coins. From here there is a bit of a drop off to the second highest pay which is 15,000 coins at max bet for five of the scattered chefs.

Third highest pay is 1,000 coins for lining up four wilds. From here the five symbol wins range from 750 coins for five flaming pots to 100 coins for five lettuce symbols on any active line. In total there are 35 winning combinations and What's Cooking has quite a high hit frequency.

There is a bonus Cook Book symbol which appears on reels 1 and 5 only. This symbol is the key to the bonus stage. Get one on both reels at the same time and you move on to the first stage of the bonus. Here you have to make a sandwich by choosing two ingredients (View Screenshot).

Once you have made your selections you get a free spins amount followed by a free spins multiplier. Oddly the pay table has no information on this but in our tests the best outcome we won was 10 free games with a 5 times multiplier. At this multiplier level the top jackpot grows to a big 500,000 coins.

Finally there is one more way to hit a big win on What's Cooking - the Dollar Ball Jackpot Link. This is an optional $1 sid bet on a lottery style bonus. If your five numbers are drawn you win the progressive.

In the end, What's Cooking offers some very impressive graphics with some equally impressive jackpot possibilities. If you are a video slot fan it is definitely worth a spin or three.