Taste Bud

Taste Bud: Your cooking companion

Taste Bud is an interactive cooking assistant that invents recipes based on what you have in your kitchen. Tell Taste Bud what you’re trying to use today, whether it’s items from your fridge, pantry, or leftovers, and it will propose tasty recipe ideas. You can speak naturally, ask for specific dietary needs (e.g., vegan or dairy-free), request alternatives if an ingredient is missing, and tailor suggestions to cooking tools or methods (e.g., grill, cast iron).

Overview:

• A conversational bot that acts as your personal cooking collaborator.
• Generates recipe ideas from available ingredients.
• Supports dietary requests and substitutions.
• Lets you save favorites to a “Saved Buds” list stored in your browser cache.
• Uses cookies to run the service; clearing cookies will also clear saved recipes.
• Created by home cooks Sarah Lawrence and Ryan Splitlog in Atlanta, GA.

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How to Use Taste Bud

1. Tell Taste Bud what you have. Example: “I have strawberries and feta, what can I make?”
2. Ask for alternatives if something is missing. Taste Bud will suggest substitutes.
3. Specify dietary or tool preferences. Example: “a vegan recipe” or “cook it on the grill.”
4. Save recipes you like. Tap or say to save to your Saved Buds.
5. Manage saved recipes. Your Saved Buds are stored in your browser cache; clearing cookies will remove them.

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How It Works

• You describe the ingredients you want to use.
• Taste Bud analyzes them and suggests recipes or meal ideas.
• You can customize by dietary restrictions, equipment, and cooking style.
• If you don’t like a suggested recipe, you can ask for another one.

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Privacy & Storage

• Recipes are saved in your browser’s cache as Saved Buds. This avoids creating a user account.
• The service uses cookies to operate. If you don’t want cookies, you can opt out, but some features may be limited.

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About the Creators

Taste Bud is brought to you by Sarah Lawrence and Ryan Splitlog, two home cooks creating a helpful kitchen companion.

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Features

• Conversational, natural language interactions for recipe generation
• Ingredient-based recipe suggestions with substitutions
• Customizable by dietary preferences (e.g., vegan, dairy-free)
• Customizable by cooking method and tools (grill, cast iron, etc.)
• Save favorite recipes to a local Saved Buds list stored in your browser cache
• No account needed; browser-based saving and cookies for operation
• Easy, friendly tone designed for collaboration in the kitchen