Lesson 286 · 2 min
Cook from what's in the fridge
Snap a photo of your fridge and AI can suggest dinners from what you already have.
It is 6pm, the market is closed, and the fridge holds half a cabbage, three eggs, some pork and a bit of tofu. Instead of ordering in, ask a chatbot what you can make.
Many chatbots can look at a photo and name the food in it. Check its list, because it may mistake one green leaf for another, then add what is in your cupboard: rice, fish sauce, garlic, noodles.
Tell it what you want: quick, one pan, no chilli for the kids, Vietnamese home style. You will get a few ideas with simple steps. Ask for something simpler if a recipe looks too fussy.
Use your own nose and eyes for freshness. AI cannot tell from a photo whether the pork is still good.
Do it now
Tonight's dinner from the fridge
- 1. Take a photo of the open fridge, or list what is inside.
- 2. Send it with the prompt below.
- 3. Pick one idea and ask for step-by-step instructions.
Here is what is in my fridge [photo or list]. I also have rice, fish sauce, garlic, oil and noodles. Suggest 3 Vietnamese home-style dinners for 4 people that take under 30 minutes and use only these things. First list the ingredients you can see so I can correct you.
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- Multimodal
- Able to work with more than one kind of input or output, such as text, images, sound and video together.
- Prompt
- The instruction or question you give an AI. Clearer prompts with context usually get much better answers.