While AI is often used to conjure up pictures or write out text—which is cool but not exactly accurate—there are many other uses for it that could help save people time and help make day-to-day life slightly easier.
One of the ways it can do so is through ChatGPT’s CulinaryGPT, which can be a very useful kitchen assistant, especially when it comes to cooking.
Here are three ways of how you can use it.
- How to use ingredients: If you find a random spice in your pantry, or have a vegetable you’re not entirely sure how to use, then CulinaryGPT can not only explain what that item is but also give you plenty of recipes that use it. In essence, through one question you’re getting the answers you’d get from five or six Google searches. Clever, no?
- Easier substitutions: Let’s say you’re lactose intolerant but love the sound of Martha Stewart’s cheesecake; or you’re a vegetarian and would like to make some sort of wellington. CulinaryGPT can quickly be called upon to either replace ingredients that don’t you shouldn’t or wouldn’t like to consume with ones that you can. You can even paste the link to a recipe from another site and it will crawl that page itself. Genius!
- Use what you already have: We’ve all found ourselves staring at a fridge or a pantry full of random odds and ends with no idea what we can make with the ingredients at hand. Instead of racking your brains, simply give CulinaryGPT the list of items in your fridge—or, better yet, upload a picture of your fridge!—and it will give you recipes that combine those ingredients!
