Recipe search in ChatGPT

ChatGPT will happily write you a recipe. ask.recipes gives it ones that people have cooked and rated instead: a searchable collection with ratings, times, nutrition and a source link on every one. Add it once and dinner becomes a sentence.

Adding it takes a minute. Everything on this page is free.

Add it

Open ask.recipes in ChatGPT and add it. A sign-in page opens: enter your email, type the 6-digit code we send, accept the terms, back to ChatGPT. No password. The newsletter is opt-in. The account exists so your saved recipes stay yours.
Ask for dinner in any chat. ChatGPT picks ask.recipes up from what you say; if it answers from memory instead, mention ask.recipes by name in the message.
No app page where you are? Add it by hand. ChatGPT files MCP servers under Plugins: Plugins → Add → Add custom MCP server, Server URL https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp, OAuth as the authentication, tick the risk box, Create.

ChatGPT may ask before it saves a recipe or changes your pantry. The Thermomix tools are not offered in ChatGPT; they work in Claude and other MCP clients. Full tool reference in the docs.

Three asks

Real exchanges from 24 October 2026 against the live server. The wording of ChatGPT's replies varies; the recipes, ratings and nutrition are as served.

Raw salmon fillet with lemon wedges, garlic and spring onion — salmon, lemon, garlicphoto: David B Townsend, Unsplash

You"Salmon tonight. Twenty-five minutes, something people actually rate well."

ChatGPT

Three, all rated 5.0 by more than eighty people.

Salmon Patties20 min · 5.0 ×134From tinned salmon.
Seared Salmon With Balsamic Glaze20 min · 5.0 ×109 · 65 g proteinFresh fillets, a two-minute pan glaze.
Wasabi Salmon Cakes25 min · 5.0 ×83

Fresh or tinned?

You"Fresh. The glaze one, for two."

ChatGPT

Scaled from four servings to two: two fillets, two tablespoons of balsamic, two of water, a scant tablespoon of lemon juice, two teaspoons of brown sugar, one of oil. The full card as the source wrote it:

Seared Salmon With Balsamic Glaze

5.0 ×109 20 min 4 servings 8 steps

1/4 cup balsamic vinegar
1/4 cup water
1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice
1 tablespoon brown sugar, packed plus
1 teaspoon brown sugar, packed
4 salmon fillets, skin on (center cut)
salt & freshly ground black pepper
2 teaspoons olive oil

Source: food.com ↗

457 kcal · 65.3g protein
7.6g carbs · 0g fiber

You"Save it."

ChatGPT

Saved. Ask for "the balsamic salmon" next time and it comes straight back.

Cut white cabbage and cherry tomatoes on a wooden board — cabbage, on the boardphoto: Victoria Emerson, Pexels

You"Half a cabbage, bacon, potatoes and an onion. Use them up."

ChatGPT

Nothing well-rated uses all four, so each of these uses three.

Southern-Style Cabbage45 min · 5.0 ×23 · 5 ingredientsCabbage, bacon and onion in one pan.
Fried Cabbage30 min · 5.0 ×71 · 1177 kcal · serves 2The same idea with a pound of bacon.
Pierogies and Kielbasa Skillet Casserole25 min · 5.0 ×28If you have pierogies in the freezer.

Your potatoes only turn up as the pierogies. Boil them alongside the first two, or ask me for a potato dish with the rest.

Pasta bake with melted cheese — a pasta bake, no mushroomsphoto: Ronmar Lacamiento, Pexels

You"Pasta bake for the kids. No mushrooms, forty minutes, well rated."

ChatGPT

Baked Ziti35 min · 5.0 ×159 · 403 kcal · serves 8Vegetarian.
Fannie Farmer's Classic Baked Macaroni & Cheese40 min · 5.0 ×824
Creamy Cajun Chicken Pasta25 min · 5.0 ×1586A skillet dish, not a bake.

No mushrooms in any of them. A tray of Reese's Squares also came back on "no bake"; I left it out.

ChatGPT maps plain words to filters: "forty minutes" becomes a time limit, "well rated" a minimum number of ratings, "no mushrooms" an ingredient exclusion matched as a whole word. Say the limit and it is applied; leave it out and nothing is cut.

Saving and your cookbook

Everything you save sits in one list tied to your email, so it is the same list in ChatGPT on your phone, on the web, and in Claude or Claude Code if you use those too. Ask for it in words.

"Save it." After any recipe. "What did I save last week?" lists them back.
"Keep this family recipe: ..." Dictate it, paste it, or send a photo of the card. ChatGPT reads it and stores it as yours, private. "Add the recipe on this page: <url>" does the same from a web page.
"Give me a link to send my sister the lasagna I uploaded." An unlisted page, readable without an account, that imports into most recipe and nutrition apps.
"Bought rice, eggs and two chickens." ChatGPT keeps a pantry for you. Later: "What can I make with what I have?"

Crawled recipes stay with their source: ChatGPT gives you the link rather than a copy to share. Your own uploads are yours to send around.