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Each swap has a ratio, what it changes in the dish and the diets it suits. 91 ingredients covered.
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Everything below happens on one screen: the ingredients you type, the recipes you get back, the swap for what is missing, and the pasta that finishes the plate.
Download captions (.vtt)0:00 — The premise. On a red card, the words “two eggs. half a lemon. leftover rice.” appear beside the actual ingredients: two eggs, a bowl of rice and half a lemon on a cut.
0:05 — Ask the chef. “Ask the chef.” The homepage shows the promise — good food starts with what you have — with the chat composer and two “Tonight” recipe pins.
0:09 — Recipes, filtered. In the chat, “rice” and “lemon” are typed as filters and recipe cards come back, ranked, with on-device answers marked at zero tokens.
0:13 — Out of butter?. “Out of butter?” The substitution pages show swaps for butter, olive oil, mango and banana with the ratio, flavour, texture, moisture adjustment and what each one suits.
0:18 — Cooking for six?. “Cooking for six?” A Caprese salad recipe scales from four to six servings, and every ingredient quantity follows.
0:21 — Cook the method. The recipe page numbers the method, shows the nutrition split and keeps the ingredient list on screen while you cook.
0:24 — A real 3D kitchen. “A real 3D kitchen.” Pasta Perfetta: a real-time pot, eight guided steps and a clock that runs 24× faster.
0:30 — From pot to plate. The film ends on the My Royal Chef mark and a finished plate. The whole loop — ask, cook, swap, scale, plate — takes 36 seconds.
Four ways dinner goes sideways
Each swap has a ratio, what it changes in the dish and the diets it suits. 91 ingredients covered.
Find a swapChange the servings and every amount follows, rounded to something you can measure.
Open the scalerA 3D kitchen with a heat and doneness model running 24× faster than real time. Drain at al dente, toss, plate. Check real pasta by tasting it.
Cook in the 3D kitchenList what’s on the counter and the chef suggests dinner. Then switch to Portion, Swap or Fix for the next problem.
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