About Chatty Foods

The problem

I use AI a lot in the kitchen. It helps me come up with recipes based on whatever ingredients I have on hand, suggests pairings, walks me through techniques, and generally makes cooking more fun. Over time, I built up a solid collection of recipes and tips through those conversations.

The problem is that all of that useful information gets buried. Even with a dedicated project in the app, good recipes and tips end up scattered across dozens of conversations. Finding that one chicken thigh glaze from three weeks ago means scrolling through a lot of unrelated chatter.

I wanted a clean way to reference everything I've cooked and learned without digging through old conversations, and an easy way to keep adding to it.

The process

The idea for how to actually pull this off came to me in the shower. The steps ended up being pretty straightforward:

1. Export my ChatGPT conversation data
2. Write a script to organize the raw export into individual conversation files
3. Have Claude read through all of them and flag the ones related to food
4. From those food conversations, extract structured recipe cards and food tips
5. Use that structured data as the foundation for this site

Now when I cook something new with AI, I just drop the conversation in and the recipes and tips get added to the collection.