About Sous-Chef

The story behind the AI cooking assistant

Hi, I'm Andrew

I'm a software engineer who loves to cook. I believe technology should be used to make our lives easier and allow us to spend more time doing the things we love, rather than on some of the boring things (finding recipes, making a grocery list, etc.).

The Journey

Once AI became good enough to generate recipes, I wanted to build a tool that would allow me to create recipes, save them, and easily create lists for the grocery store.

As someone who loves cooking, I get lazy when searching for recipes and making a grocery list. I would usually revert to cooking the same recipes over and over again, when I actually wanted to try cooking something new.

Why I Built Sous-Chef

I built Sous-Chef to solve several pain points i've faced:

  • Little-to-no Ads: Cooking websites are full of ads. I wanted to build a cooking website that was focused on the recipes, not the ads.
  • Recipe Discovery: Generating or finding recipes that match exactly what you want to cook
  • Grocery Planning: Easily converting recipes into organized shopping lists AND Sorting those lists by the way they are organized in the grocery store
  • Cooking Guidance: Having an assistant that you can ask anything you want about recipes, cooking, techniques, etc.

By leveraging AI, Sous-Chef can generate personalized recipes based on dietary preferences, available ingredients, cost, cooking skill level, time you have, and anything you can think of – making home cooking more accessible and enjoyable for everyone.

Pricing

Sous-Chef is mostly free to use. I plan on putting features which are costly to run behind a subscription. I will try my best to keep the cost as low as I can.

Looking Forward

I have been using Sous-Chef for a couple of months. I have cooked many recipes that are saved in Sous-Chef. I wanted to build a tool which I would want to use.

Goals

My goal is to make Sous-Chef the best AI cooking assistant out there. I plan on adding more features and capabilities to Sous-Chef (Meals, Meal Planning, Recipe Collections, Nutritional Information, ...).

Feedback

I would love to hear from you. Please send me feedback via email at sous.chef.website@gmail.com.