1 Tell it what you have
Ingredients, a photo of your fridge, a time budget, or a craving. Speak it with the mic or type — one image per message is welcome.
Instant · Precise · AI chef
Ask the chef anything.
Type ingredients or a craving — a culinary LLM answers with exact quantities, numbered steps, timing tables, and smart swaps. Free tier included every day; Premium for people who cook with it daily.
342 recipes · Free tier: 15 chef messages/day
Try it instantly — no sign up
Describe ingredients or a dish. Get a structured recipe back.
How it works
A real chef brain, with a local safety net.
2 The chef answers with structure
In the browser chat, mechanical requests — resizing a recipe to a serving count, unit and temperature conversions, known substitutions, curated fixes for common mistakes — are interpreted and answered instantly on your device by our own AI/ML engine (C++ compiled to WebAssembly), at zero tokens. The chat modes (Portion, Swap, Fix) give the engine the context it needs for terse commands like “2 ppl” or “x2”. Only what needs real culinary judgment goes to a third-party culinary LLM (via OpenRouter), which replies in clean markdown: exact ingredient tables, numbered steps, timing guides — with live web search when freshness matters.
3 Cook anywhere, even offline
The on-device engine keeps working with no connection, and if the server is unreachable it takes over instantly — no dead air. 15 free chef messages every day; Premium raises it to 90.
Questions, answered
FAQ
Is it free?
Yes — guests get 1 free chef answer (the on-device engine keeps helping after it), a free account gets 15 chef messages every day, and all kitchen tools stay free. Premium ($12.99/month) raises the chat limit to 90 messages a day for daily cooks. Sign-up is optional and only stores your history and saved recipes.
Who answers my questions?
In the browser chat, mechanical requests — resizing a recipe, unit conversions, known substitutions, curated fixes for common mistakes — are interpreted and answered instantly on your device by our own AI/ML engine (C++ compiled to WebAssembly, plus JavaScript) at zero tokens. Only what needs real judgment goes to a third-party culinary LLM (through OpenRouter), which answers with clean, structured markdown — tables, steps, timings. When the question needs fresh facts (prices, seasonality, recalls), the server searches the web and cites sources. The Android app uses the same chef, with its own on-device engines as the fallback if the server is unreachable.
Can I send a photo or speak instead of typing?
Yes. Attach one image per message (a fridge shelf, an ingredient label) and the chef will understand it. The mic button turns your speech into text right in the input box, on web and Android.
Is there an Android app?
Yes. My Royal Chef has a native Android app (not a web wrapper) with the same chef chat, 342+ recipes, substitutions, and flavor pairing. It syncs with your account and picks up new recipes automatically. Download the APK.
Can I save recipes?
Sign in (free) to save recipes and conversation history, and download any recipe as a PDF for printing.
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