About What Can I Cook

What Can I Cook answers one question: what can you actually cook right now, with what is already in your kitchen? Instead of starting from a dish and sending you shopping, the search starts from your ingredients and ranks recipes by how many of their ingredients you already own.

What the site does

• Pantry-aware search - add the ingredients you have (typed, scanned by barcode, or photographed) and get recipes ranked by match.
• Guided cooking- step-by-step mode with per-step timers, so a "30-minute recipe" actually takes 30 minutes.
• Honest nutrition - calories and macronutrients are calculated per recipe and per serving; micronutrients come from measured food data, never fabricated.
• Meal planning and shopping lists - plan a week, and the shopping list only includes what your pantry is missing.

Where the recipes come from

Recipes are a mix of community submissions and dishes imported from public sources, normalized into consistent ingredients, steps, and quantities. Every published recipe passes a moderation step before it becomes publicly visible, and each recipe page shows its source and author. Cooks can report after cooking whether a recipe actually worked - that success rate is shown on the recipe and feeds back into ranking.

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