Anyone using AI for recipe insight

[BKYDBBQ]

I have recently started using AI (ChatGPT) for some work items. I decided to run through what I wanted to cook through the system.

I often use recipes more for the process than the actual flavor profile so AI has given me a basic process for the protein and cooker that I can tweak with the flavors I want to use.

I am really liking it (while hating myself at the same time, I grew up in the 80's Terminator and War Games make me leery of AI) but I can see it as a good way to come up with my own recipes...

I am even using it as I develop my comp BBQ profiles...

[jfmorris]

I’ve used Copilot to help build some BBQ rub recipes, and in planning some cooks. I also used it to help formulate several beer recipes.

[klflowers]

A friend of mine tells AI what she has available and asks for recipes. She told me it works well.

[bbqLuv]

That is interesting. I'm think ideas for leftovers.

[SheilaAnn]

I did use Gemma (my nickname for Google Gemini) to create recipes from a super old timey cookbook. Not to toot my own horn, but I am very confident in reading a recipe and knowing it’s going to work out. The recipes I “translated” looked really legit. YMMV

[jfmorris]

I use a local AI that is literally called Gemma, that is created by Google Gemini. It's just a version you can run locally on your own system, without the Internet or sharing your stuff with the cloud. So you were right on the money with that nickname!

[DavidNorcross]

I use Chat and yes I sometimes show it recipes but mostly to confirm how it fits into my diet. A useful tool, I just hope we just continue to look at it as .....just a tool.

[mrteddyprincess]

Based on a sci-fi book series called "Expeditionary Force," I call Chat GPT "Skippy." Skippy helps me come up with recipes regularly.

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[realdocBBQ]

That's what I used to call it too. But... these things forget too much. When it started calling ME Skippy, I gave it up. BTW, Skippy's an asshole. lol

[mrteddyprincess]

I was beginning to think I was the only fan of that series :-) Glad to know you're out there too. My coffee mug at work says, "First Class Asshole." And yes, I have to remind Skippy that he is Skippy and I am Joe the Naked Monkey.

[hoovarmin]

I use Grok regularly for this. It's incredible.

[Lynn Dollar]

I used a rub called Texas Sugarless Sprinkle 20 years ago. I asked Grok to recalculate the volumes using 16 grain black pepper and course kosher salt.

But I really don't trust AI, yet. I've seen a lack of consistency.

Sugarless Texas Sprinkle Barbecue Rub

• 1/3 cup table salt
• 1/4 cup paprika
• 3 Tablespoons chili powder
• 2 Tablespoons ground black pepper
• 1 Tablespoon ground cumin
• 1 Tablespoon granulated garlic powder
• 1 Tablespoon cayenne

[bbqLuv]

I tried what you said, here is what came up,

Sugarless Texas Sprinkle (BBQ Rub)
Concise takeaway: It’s a salt‑pepper‑garlic backbone with color from paprika and punch from chili powders—zero sugar, maximum bark.

Kosher salt — 2 tbsp

16‑mesh black pepper — 2 tbsp

Granulated garlic — 1 tbsp

Onion powder — 1 tbsp

Smoked paprika — 1 tbsp

Chili powder — 1 tsp

Cayenne — ½–1 tsp (optional heat)

Mustard powder — ½ tsp (adds tang, helps bark)

Mix thoroughly. Store airtight.

[Lynn Dollar]

Grok

2 tablespoons 16-grain coarse black pepper
1 tablespoon kosher salt
1 tablespoon + 2 teaspoons paprika
1 tablespoon + 3/4 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon granulated garlic powder
1 teaspoon cayenne

[Lynn Dollar]

bbqLuv and now that I think about it, I asked Grok to make it two parts 16 grain pepper to one part kosher salt, which is the basic Texas rib rub.

[GolfGeezer]

I used a recipe from Panhead John once.

[Panhead John]

How long was your hospital visit?

[GolfGeezer]

Panhead John Not long. Stomach pump in the ER. Told to take 2 aspirin and sit on the toilet for 24 hours. Getting a pillow and a blanket to work for some sleep was a b@#$h!

[bbqLuv]

So glad you survived that recipe.

[bbqLuv]

I use ChatGPT for recipe over views, as it were.
ChatGPT is getting better and also provides links.

[Smoking77]

If y'all want to have fun with it, take a picture of everything that's in your fridge and ask it to make something. I took a picture of both sides of my fridge where all the condiments are and asked it to make a sauce/marinade. It came back with a "French Dijon-Maple Pan Sauce." Asked it to "get weirder and more complicated" and it came back with a "pantry Mole-style braised chicken." Who knows if it's any good but it's a fun way to clean the fridge!

[Donw]

I would just like to point out that AI cannot taste, see, or smell anything. It can collect a host of information on recipes, unfortunately from a whole range of sources whether good or bad, and often conflicting, and then make inferences. The inferences can sometimes be good, sometimes be bad, but lacking the ability to smell, see or taste it is a gamble if what it suggests is good or bad, or even good but looks like garbage. Remember the early advice of one LLM where it suggested glueing cheese on a pizza?
I would suggest to take any food or recipe suggestions with a grain of salt; but AI would probably suggest I should rephrase that as a grain of sodium chloride with other micro contaminants. Just my 2¢

[jfmorris]

I had a conversation with copilot about exactly this topic a while back. I asked how could it give me advice on a bbq rub spice blend, when it cannot taste or eat. It gave me some spiel about inferring proper proportions of the various spices based on knowledge from all over the Internet plus its training.

[SheilaAnn]

I remember seeing a commercial recently citing why AI won’t take all our jobs. An example was asking AI to install a carburetor. The premise being that the “trades” will always be around…. So go to trade school instead of getting a marketing degree.