The complete workflow
SousMate does not begin with an endless recipe search. It starts with your day, your kitchen, and your safety needs, then narrows the choices before you need to ask what to cook.
From setup to supper
You provide a small amount of useful context. SousMate uses it throughout planning, choosing, cooking, and the next pantry update.
Choose dietary needs, the cuisines you enjoy, ingredients you dislike, and any of the nine major allergen categories you need SousMate to watch.
Allergies are treated as safety constraints. Cuisine preferences are ranking signals. Dislikes are respected when suitable recipes are available.
Set meal times, work departure and arrival times, days off, or a direct cooking-time override. Each meal receives its own practical time budget.
Tap common ingredients or speak what you bought. Pantry items use a lightweight meal-count model, while staples such as salt, pepper, oil, and common spices stay out of the match calculation.
Every planned breakfast, lunch, or dinner can include a Quick, Standard, and Involved option. Each preview shows the dish, total time, ingredients without measurements, and pantry match.
Choosing “Let's cook this” unlocks ingredient measurements, full instructions, nutrition, the calculated start time, guided cooking, and recipe-scoped Sous Chef help.
Mark the recipe cooked to add it to history and update the non-optional pantry ingredients that were used. Rate it, add notes, or save it for another day.
Time that fits
SousMate works backward from the time a meal needs to be ready. It reserves a small buffer, then fits recipes into the minutes that remain.
Quick route
Up to 15 minThe lowest-effort option when speed matters most.Standard route
16 to 30 minAn everyday balance of variety, technique, and cleanup.Involved route
31 to 60 minA slower option that never exceeds the available window.Dinner example
SousMate subtracts a 15-minute buffer from the 60-minute window. That leaves 45 minutes of available cooking time.
Other days
Breakfast uses the time between breakfast and leaving for work, with the same buffer. Lunch defaults to 30 minutes. A day off defaults to 60 minutes. A manual override takes priority and keeps a 15-minute minimum.
Recommendation logic
The planner filters first, then ranks. That order matters: a high pantry match can never override a profiled allergen.
Breakfast recipes stay with breakfast, dinner recipes stay with dinner, and “any” recipes can fill either. Total time is prep time plus cook time.
SousMate checks both the allergen categories declared on a recipe and a normalized ingredient-to-allergen map. Allergen rules remain active across planning, search, and Quick Pick.
Required ingredients you dislike, plus broader spicy or seafood preferences, are used to exclude unsuitable choices. If the library cannot fill a slot, SousMate may broaden non-allergy preferences, but it does not relax the allergen filter.
The pantry score is the share of required, non-optional, non-staple ingredients currently available. Preferred cuisines receive a small ranking bonus.
The planner avoids repeating the same recipe across generated slots where possible. A re-roll also tracks recipes already shown so the next stack feels genuinely new.
Preview, commit, cook
SousMate gives you enough information to choose without spending a meal credit, then reveals the complete cooking experience after commitment.
Before commitment
After commitment
Honest automation
SousMate is not a general chatbot and does not ask a model to improvise your weekly plan.
Structured logic
Focused AI
Coming soon on the App Store
