Buzzfeed Tasty Releases AI Sous Chef in ChatGPT

Everyone understands the varied benefits of cooking at home. But knowing what to cook is often more of a roadblock than knowing how to cook it. ChatGPT has proven time and again that it can generate recipes for you. But Tasty (the cooking brand from Buzzfeed) has released a ChatGPT Plus plugin that goes one step further and connects their expert chef recipes to the power of the OpenAI LLM.

In the video below, we utilize this AI Sous Chef to surface meal plans that account for dietary needs, flavor profiles, cook time, and other relevant factors.

Prompts Used in Video

This prompt generates a meal plan with varied tastes and preferences:

Create a meal plan for the week consisting of five different dinner meals, taking into account the following time restrictions, cooking methods, dietary restrictions, and nutritional preferences.

Prep time: does not exceed 30 minutes
Cook time: does not exceed 30 minutes, unless utilizing passive cooking processes like a crockpot
Cooking method: I'd like three of the meals to be crockpot meals, one meal to be a grilled meal, and one meal to be cooked on the stovetop
Nutrition: All meals should incorporate a variety of veggies, be high in protein, and nutritent-dense.
Dietary Restrictions: Dairy

This prompt focuses on the specific type of cooking method you prefer:

Create a meal plan for the week consisting of five different dinner meals, taking into account the following time restrictions, cooking methods, dietary restrictions, and nutritional preferences.

Prep time: does not exceed 30 minutes
Cook time: no restrictions
Cooking method: crockpot
Nutrition: All meals should incorporate a variety of veggies, be high in protein, and nutritent-dense.
Dietary Restrictions: None
Flavor Profile: all meals should have a vastly different flavor profile

General AI Sous Chef Prompt

Use the following ChatGPT prompt that accounts for all benefits of an AI Sous Chef, also prioritizing what is already in your fridge. Replace what’s inside the brackets “[...]” with your own preferences.

Create a meal plan for the week consisting of five different dinner meals, taking into account the following time restrictions, cooking methods, dietary restrictions, and nutritional preferences. Lastly, the meals should prioritize using what’s already in my fridge (as detailed below) but can include other ingredients I may need to purchase.

Prep time: [i.e. does not exceed 30 minutes]

Cook time: [i.e. does not exceed 45 minutes, unless utilizing passive cooking processes like a crockpot]

What’s in my fridge: [outline what is on hand in your fridge you'd like to use]

Preferred Protein: [detail your preferred protein]

Preferred Sides: [detail any side dishes you have or prefer, like rice or potato-based sides]

Cooking method: [i.e. Grill, crockpot, stovetop, etc.]

Nutrition: [outline any diets you use like Keto or what macronutrients you’d like to optimize for, such as high-protein]

Dietary Restrictions: [detail any allergens]