Save a cookbook page as a smart recipe
Photograph a printed recipe and turn it into a structured smart card with mise en place, parallel tracks, and timers.
The Prompt
Here's a photo of a cookbook page. Save it as a smart recipe — pull out the ingredients, structure the steps with mise en place and parallel cooking tracks, and add timers wherever there's a duration mentioned.
What it does
Your AI reads the photo, extracts the recipe structure, and saves it to your kitchen as a fully smart recipe card. Mise en place tasks are auto-generated, cooking steps are split into parallel tracks where the original recipe has them, and timers are wired into each step that mentions a duration.
Tools it uses
Behind the scenes, your AI calls these Surprise Chef MCP tools:
What you get back
A new recipe in your dashboard with a smart card layout. The original cookbook attribution is preserved in the notes.
Variations
Here's a photo of my grandma's handwritten recipe card. Save it as a smart recipe and keep her exact wording in the notes.
Here's a recipe URL: [paste]. Save it as a smart recipe in my kitchen — strip the SEO blog content and just keep the actual recipe.
More prompts
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Your AI kitchen brain
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