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You can also tell the LLM exactly what you have in the fridge or what allergies you have and get customized recipes. It’s just a better experience, 2026 is roug

You can also tell the LLM exactly what you have in the fridge or what allergies you have and get customized recipes. It’s just a better experience, 2026 is rough for a recipe site.

leereeves 4mo ago
> You can also tell the LLM exactly what you have in the fridge or what allergies you have and get customized recipes. Can you really though? Are the results delicious? I've never tried that.
- hilariously 4mo ago
  It's worse than you think, many recipe sites do not taste test their stuff at all, and often have very stupid instructions. That being said, an LLM can give creative ideas, mix and match components, but you should not trust the details at all.
  - ben_w 4mo ago
    Case in point, when "minced meat" and "mincemeat" were mixed up: https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/09/american-website-includes-actual-beef-mince-pie-recipe-described-abomination-11584126/ https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/09/american-website-includes-act...
    - shakow 4mo ago
      Damn, TIL. Now “Operation Mincemeat” seems less macabre.
- alberto467 4mo ago
  It is pretty good yeah. I usually ask what traditional recipes (with some time/difficulty limits depending on time availability) might fit with the ingredients i have and let it suggest substitutions. I wouldn't just ask it to make me a "novel and interesting recipe" giving it a bunch of weird ingredients that don't fit together. It would probably try its best but garbage in garbage out also work for food! At that point i ask it what should i get from the shop to make a recipe with x ingredient that i have in the fridge and i want to finish. It's also pretty good with meal planning if you do that, it can estimate portions with calories breakdowns etc...
eithed 4mo ago
This video tells me otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDQds7VZkfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDQds7VZkfg ( Cold Ones - We Drank AI's Horrible Cocktail Ideas). This is a tongue in cheek response though, as LLMs improved significantly since then.
justsomehnguy 4mo ago
Is this mushroom edible.jpg
xigoi 4mo ago
Would you trust the tool that recommended putting glue on pizza to give you a good recipe?
- lpapez 4mo ago
  If the user puts glue on their pizza because a computer said so, that's a human problem. The computer generated recipes can be useful as inspiration, but of course common sense is required.
  - thwarted 4mo ago
    This "common sense" you refer to, is it the same common sense Babbage was subject to? "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage
    - alberto467 4mo ago
      If you freely follow a recipe telling you to put glue on your food, I also don't trust you cooking anything and I definitively don't trust you coming up with your own recipes.
- coryrc 4mo ago
  I have/make rice starch glue. Can you put it on food? How are you supposed to know whether it's food safe? Okay, so you don't trust LLM, so you go to a website instead. And... LLM-generated pages are SEO'd to get the top links. So you can't trust any website now (shoot, so much nonsense even before LLM, just more obvious to some of us). So basically everything on a computer is untrustworthy, directly from an LLM or not, unless you got yourself a copy of Encarta '97. So you pick up a book at the local library. Librarians picked some books to order in subject matters they aren't expert in. How do you know those are accurate and safe? If the book says to use rice starch glue, how do you know the author didn't just copy that from an LLM? Or make it up? Trust is fading entirely.
hansmayer 4mo ago
> You can also tell the LLM exactly what You can - but it's not advisable, not in the least.

You can also tell the LLM exactly what you have in the fridge or what allergies you have and get customized recipes. It’s just a better experience, 2026 is rough for a recipe site.

leereeves 4mo ago

> You can also tell the LLM exactly what you have in the fridge or what allergies you have and get customized recipes. Can you really though? Are the results delicious? I've never tried that.

hilariously 4mo ago
It's worse than you think, many recipe sites do not taste test their stuff at all, and often have very stupid instructions. That being said, an LLM can give creative ideas, mix and match components, but you should not trust the details at all.
- ben_w 4mo ago
  Case in point, when "minced meat" and "mincemeat" were mixed up: https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/09/american-website-includes-actual-beef-mince-pie-recipe-described-abomination-11584126/ https://metro.co.uk/2019/12/09/american-website-includes-act...
  - shakow 4mo ago
    Damn, TIL. Now “Operation Mincemeat” seems less macabre.
alberto467 4mo ago
It is pretty good yeah. I usually ask what traditional recipes (with some time/difficulty limits depending on time availability) might fit with the ingredients i have and let it suggest substitutions. I wouldn't just ask it to make me a "novel and interesting recipe" giving it a bunch of weird ingredients that don't fit together. It would probably try its best but garbage in garbage out also work for food! At that point i ask it what should i get from the shop to make a recipe with x ingredient that i have in the fridge and i want to finish. It's also pretty good with meal planning if you do that, it can estimate portions with calories breakdowns etc...

eithed 4mo ago

This video tells me otherwise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDQds7VZkfg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDQds7VZkfg ( Cold Ones - We Drank AI's Horrible Cocktail Ideas). This is a tongue in cheek response though, as LLMs improved significantly since then.

justsomehnguy 4mo ago

Is this mushroom edible.jpg

xigoi 4mo ago

Would you trust the tool that recommended putting glue on pizza to give you a good recipe?

lpapez 4mo ago
If the user puts glue on their pizza because a computer said so, that's a human problem. The computer generated recipes can be useful as inspiration, but of course common sense is required.
- thwarted 4mo ago
  This "common sense" you refer to, is it the same common sense Babbage was subject to? "On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage
  - alberto467 4mo ago
    If you freely follow a recipe telling you to put glue on your food, I also don't trust you cooking anything and I definitively don't trust you coming up with your own recipes.
coryrc 4mo ago
I have/make rice starch glue. Can you put it on food? How are you supposed to know whether it's food safe? Okay, so you don't trust LLM, so you go to a website instead. And... LLM-generated pages are SEO'd to get the top links. So you can't trust any website now (shoot, so much nonsense even before LLM, just more obvious to some of us). So basically everything on a computer is untrustworthy, directly from an LLM or not, unless you got yourself a copy of Encarta '97. So you pick up a book at the local library. Librarians picked some books to order in subject matters they aren't expert in. How do you know those are accurate and safe? If the book says to use rice starch glue, how do you know the author didn't just copy that from an LLM? Or make it up? Trust is fading entirely.

hansmayer 4mo ago

> You can also tell the LLM exactly what You can - but it's not advisable, not in the least.