You need to enter your on-hand ingredients. The AI cooking agent needs this information to help you with recipes. Please use the Food On Hand web page to let the AI agent know what food you have in your kitchen. This only takes a minute or two.
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How to get started:
Before using this web app you need to spend a minute or two on the Food On Hand web page entering food that you have in your kitchen. Make sure you click the grey button labeled "Save changes to my on-hand ingredients" when you are done clicking on the food items you have on-hand.
About once a week you should take a minute to update this list of on-hand ingredients. Your on-hand ingredient list does not have to be 100% accurate - the AI cooking advisor just needs to have a good idea of what types of food you have in your kitchen.
Cookie and account policy:
As of February 23, 2013, you no longer need an account to use this site.
The first time you access this site with a web browser a permanent cookie cookingspace-id is set in your web browser. This ID is used as a unique, but anonymous, identifier for you so you can use the Food On Hand web page to set up the food items in your kitchen and the AI recipe helper knows what food you have on hand.
Cook delicious meals with food on-hand in your kitchen!
This web site and the accompanying free book (available in PDF, Kindle, and iPad formats) help you do three things:
- Acts as a cooking coach by teaching you how to substitute ingredients and creatively add new ingredients to existing recipes.
- Save money on groceries by using the food you have on-hand: reduce food waste!
This web site features an Artificial Intelligence (AI) cooking agent that prepares custom recipes for you based on the food you have on-hand in your kitchen. You can activate this agent at anytime by clicking on the icon on recipe listings; this icon after a recipe ingredient idicates that you don't have this ingredient on hand.
Two cool things happen when you click on the icon:
- You see the recipe re-written with suggestions substituting ingredients that you don't have with ingredients you do have in the kitchen!
- Cooking is a creative process! When possible additional ingredients (with suggested amounts) are shown based on the performing machine learning (a technique for artificial intelligence) on 100,000 recipes. The goal is to introduce you to new ingredients to try when cooking.
You can also use the AI Recipe Helper to find recipes to make based on your ingredients on hand by using the AI Recipe Helper web page. You may be shown recipes that you don't quite have all of the ingredients for, but the AI Recipe Helper will suggest ingredient substitutions that you might want to try.
My goal is that this web site and accompanying book will help you to learn to cook more efficiently using ingredients you have on-hand and to develop better habits of eating vegetables and fruits, drink more water and less soft drinks, and learn to eat slowly and enjoy your food.
Buon appetito!
-Mark Watson