Dinner Wasn't Missing Ingredients. It Was Missing Coordination: Building New Dish with Local Open-Source AI

Description and use

New Dish merges ingredients from up to three kitchens into a single safe recipe, respecting group allergies and preferences, using local OCR, object detection, and open recipe data.

Problem

Users lacked a way to combine ingredients from multiple households into a single safe, documented recipe without relying on external APIs or compromising privacy.

Outcome

New Dish enables privacy‑preserving, local‑first recipe creation for small groups, eliminating the need for backend services or paid APIs while providing verified recipes and nutrition data.

Workflow

• Select one to three kitchens
• Rename kitchens if desired
• Add ingredients manually or by scanning a photo
• Confirm each detected ingredient
• Set group allergies and dietary preferences
• Create the dish
• Review the matched recipe, missing ingredients, instructions, and per‑serving nutrition
• Optionally have Peper read the recipe aloud

Evidence

New Dish is a cheerful, local‑first recipe matcher for one person or a group.

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The app does not automatically trust it.

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If no safe recipe matches, New Dish says so. It does not manufacture one to avoid an empty screen.

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Allergy exclusions apply to the complete group.

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