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RunMyKitchen

How Personalization Works

Think of RunMyKitchen as a personal chef who knows your whole family. Not a chef who hands you a generic cookbook — one who remembers that your daughter hates mushrooms, your partner is gluten-free, you’re trying to eat more vegetables, and you always have rice and soy sauce in the pantry.

What the AI knows about you

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Every suggestion RunMyKitchen makes draws from four inputs:

Your pantry — What ingredients you have right now. Recipes that use what’s already in your kitchen rank higher than ones that require a full shopping trip. As you add items, upload receipts, or mark things as used, the AI’s picture of your kitchen stays current.

Your household — Allergies, dietary restrictions, and picky eating notes for every family member. The AI cross-checks every recipe against every person. A recipe that contains a household member’s allergen never appears.

Your preferences — Cuisine types you enjoy, cooking complexity you prefer, and how much time you typically have. These build up naturally as you use the app — rate a recipe highly and you’ll see more like it. Skip a suggestion and the AI takes note.

Your history — What you’ve cooked before, what you rated well, what you didn’t finish. The AI avoids repeating meals too soon and leans toward the flavors and techniques you’ve enjoyed in the past.

How it all comes together

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When you ask “What should I make for dinner?”, the AI doesn’t search a generic recipe database. It runs through a decision process:

  1. Filter — Remove anything that conflicts with household allergies or dietary restrictions.
  2. Match — Prioritize recipes that use ingredients already in your pantry.
  3. Rank — Score remaining options by your taste history, ratings, and preferences.
  4. Diversify — Avoid suggesting the same cuisine or protein you had yesterday.

The result is a short list of meals that your family can actually eat, that you probably have most of the ingredients for, and that match the flavors you tend to enjoy.

It gets better over time

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The more you cook, rate, and interact, the sharper the AI becomes. Early suggestions are solid guesses based on your pantry and household setup. After a few weeks, they feel like recommendations from someone who genuinely knows your family.

You don’t need to train it manually. Just cook, rate, and let it learn.

Next steps

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