Step-by-step guided cooking
Cook like
there's a chef next to you.
Tap Start Cooking and the recipe opens as a full-screen overlay you can prop on the counter. Each step is rewritten by an LLM to match your skill level, the equipment you actually own, and your spice tolerance, with built-in per-segment timers for every sauté, simmer, and bake. Segments are cached on your version of the recipe, so reopening the same guide costs nothing.
Sauté the onions until soft and translucent.
Medium heat. Stir every minute so they don't catch.
Segments are cached on this version of the recipe - open Live Cooking again and the same guide loads instantly, no LLM call needed.
A static instruction list is not a cooking guide.
Most recipes assume you already know how to cook them. That's fine if you do. If you don't, here's what goes wrong.
One instruction for everyone
“Sear at high heat” means one thing to a chef and another to someone cooking their first steak. The same wall of text shouldn't be served to both.
No timers where you need them
You read “sauté for 3 minutes,” reach for a phone timer, set it, lose the recipe page, find it again, then realize you forgot the next step. Every kitchen knows this.
No awareness of you
A recipe doesn't know your skill, the pans you own, or your spice tolerance. So it talks past you: too terse if you're new, too verbose if you're experienced.
A cooking guide that knows your kitchen.
Live Cooking takes the recipe you're about to make and turns it into a sequence of short, focused segments. Each one tailored to you.
LLM-tailored segments
An LLM reads your recipe variant, your skill profile, the equipment you have, and your spice preference, then rewrites the steps into short cooking segments. Beginners get plain language with explicit warnings; advanced cooks get terse, professional instructions.
Built-in per-segment timers
Every segment that involves waiting (sauté, simmer, bake, rest) ships with its own countdown. Tap to start, tap to pause, swipe to look ahead without losing your place. A gentle haptic and sound cue lands when the timer hits zero so your hands stay in the food.
Skill-level language adaptation
“Sear the chicken until golden, about 4 minutes per side” becomes “Place chicken in the hot pan. Don't move it. You'll know it's ready when it releases on its own, about 4 minutes” for a beginner. Same recipe step, different voice, no extra clicks.
Four steps. Then you put the phone on the counter.
Open any recipe
Yours, or one from the curated catalog. Already personalized or swapped? Live Cooking uses your version, not the original.
Tap Start Cooking
The recipe opens as a full-screen overlay. An LLM tailors each step to your skill, equipment, and spice profile. First run takes seconds.
Cook one segment at a time
Each segment is one thing to do, with its own timer where it matters. Tap Next when you're ready to move on.
Reopen anytime, free
Segments are cached on this version of the recipe. Cook it again next week and the same guide loads instantly with no LLM call.
Start free. Cook your first guided recipe.
Every free account gets a monthly AI credit allowance for generating new cooking guides. Reruns on the same recipe version are always free. Premium plans unlock unlimited generation plus the full AI cooking stack.
Premium plans are currently invitation-only.
Frequently asked
Stop scrolling between paragraphs. Cook one segment at a time.
Free to start. No credit card. Your first guided cook in under a minute.