I’m a creature of behavior with regards to meals. At the eating places I frequent I all the time know what I’m going to order, and at house I’ve a set rotation of meals. It’s not that I’m unadventurous. It’s simply that I like understanding I’ll love what I eat. And my inventive talents do not prolong to the kitchen.
Ask me to write down a brief story earlier than a recipe. My weapon of selection is the pen, not the pan.
To get monetary savings, I’m consuming at house 90% of the time, and whereas I’ve my staple every day dishes, I like selection all through the week, to maintain my wandering tastebuds joyful. (I blame all these years of journey. It spoiled my palate.) In the previous, I’ve experimented with an synthetic intelligence recipe generator, which might flip a photograph of a restaurant meal right into a recipe you possibly can put together in your individual kitchen. Now I wished to see what a software known as Recipe Remixes might serve up.
Recipe Remixes is a brand new AI-powered characteristic in meals community Tasty’s app, and it reveals you many variations of traditional Tasty recipes. You get three totally different renditions per recipe. You can even immediate it to make the recipe simpler, extra nutritious or extra flavorful. Tasty is leaning into its neighborhood’s ideas and tips to assist others enhance their cooking and amplify neighborhood submissions by way of AI.
The characteristic launched in March 2025, by way of the Tasty iOS app, and it is free to make use of. Recipe Remixes leverages OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini mannequin.
Spin dishes like a DJ
First, I downloaded the Tasty app and created an account. It’ll ask you just a few questions, like whether or not you are a vegetarian and what’s essential to you when cooking.
You can scroll by means of the recipe suggestions or use the search bar should you’re within the temper for one thing particular. Keep in thoughts, the app will immediate you so as to add elements to a cart to position an order by way of its grocery accomplice, Walmart. Simply ignore this should you’re simply enjoying round with recipes.
I clicked on a recipe I most likely have as soon as every week (honey soy-glazed salmon) to see the interface. The power of this app is the neighborhood ideas and feedback, as there are roughly 600,000 month-to-month customers of the Tasty app. Each recipe has a video, photographs, an elements checklist, directions, ideas from different individuals utilizing Tasty and, now, the Remixes characteristic.
Given that I did not essentially need to add extra sweetness or citrus to my salmon, I prompted the characteristic to “make it extra nutritious.” Here’s what Tasty’s AI software steered:
It could be good to see the brand new nutrient data, like what’s displayed within the unique recipe. But I do like the way it has a rationale for why it is made particular modifications.
Can AI make recipes fancier?
Next, I picked the straightforward scrambled eggs dish, to see how fancy Tasty’s AI might make it. I chosen the “shock me” immediate.
The twist? Adding cheese. Not groundbreaking, however scrumptious, I’m positive. I might’ve been extra impressed with one thing surprising, like a drizzle of honey.
I explored the lunch recipes however realized they’re most likely too elaborate for me, particularly on weekdays. Even although I work at home a lot of the time, I’m simply not the type of one who cooks a birria baked potato.
Can AI make recipes extra nutritious?
I’ve a present obsession with something ube, so after I got here throughout a purple candy potato latte, I needed to strive it.
I selected to “make it extra nutritious” as a result of I do know these colourful drinks generally is a sugar bomb.
The characteristic added protein powder, which I favored, however it eliminated the star of the present: the sweetened condensed milk. It additionally switched entire milk for the almond milk, which is able to most likely create a watery consistency as an alternative of that creaminess. I’m unsure, both, if cocoa will overwhelm candy potato or work properly.
I might’ve most popular a decreased quantity of condensed milk, half the caffeine, and half-and-half as an alternative of entire milk (perhaps I’m higher at remixing recipes myself than I believed).
Can AI make recipes simpler?
I attempted utilizing AI to remix another recipe: a do-it-yourself rooster shawarma wrap that I’d have for lunch. It’s cool to see a recipe’s well-liked ideas for remix ideas, like “make it garlicky,” “make it thyme-based,” “make it simpler” and “make it extra nutritious.” They had been good ideas, however I wasn’t about to make my lunch extra garlicky. My poor spouse.
I opted for “make it straightforward,” as I like fast lunches.
This was the unique elements checklist:
Then, the remixed model to make it simpler:
I did not love the way it steered a store-bought marinade, as a result of the one factor that did was take away the necessity to use a bunch of various spices — most of which I have already got at house. But it undoubtedly made the white sauce half simpler, by decreasing the variety of elements wanted.
The verdict on utilizing AI to modify up your recipes
Though I loved the user-generated ideas, the vary of recipes, and the assorted methods to combine up a meal, I might’ve beloved slightly extra customization. It could be cool to have a chatbot characteristic, the place I might give suggestions on the remixed recipe and get it to a degree the place I used to be proud of it.
I used to be additionally hoping to have the ability to enter widespread meals I make and have the AI remix them, quite than have to select from a catalog of recipes, 95% of which I’d by no means prepare dinner.
As with most AI options, it is a helpful software to have for developing with concepts, however I can definitely prepare dinner with out it.
