That is interesting. I actually did not have the best luck with this when asking for a winter-themed potluck (generic Midwestern food) or various meal plans for the week with Asian themes (generic Bon Appetit-style food, often skimps on calories even if you explicitly ask it not to, probably because diet content is ubiquitous.) And if I'm asking for actual novel flavor combinations to try, forget it—I'd have much better luck looking through a cookbook or visiting a restaurant I haven't tried before.
I also haven't had much luck working under constraints, like "meal/banquet ideas requiring ONLY THESE INGREDIENTS for this amount of money/fiber/calories." I feel like the choice for foods that go well together can also be lacking.
One thing I *have* had luck with has been "given these ingredients and these steps what order would be most logical to combine them into one stew/soup/roast/etc." Mostly because it is scouring recipe sites for similar dishes.
I'm sure it'd be possible to do better on all the prompts I mentioned above but it usually requires a lot of back-and-forth. I might as well do my own thing by that point.
That is interesting. I actually did not have the best luck with this when asking for a winter-themed potluck (generic Midwestern food) or various meal plans for the week with Asian themes (generic Bon Appetit-style food, often skimps on calories even if you explicitly ask it not to, probably because diet content is ubiquitous.) And if I'm asking for actual novel flavor combinations to try, forget it—I'd have much better luck looking through a cookbook or visiting a restaurant I haven't tried before.
I also haven't had much luck working under constraints, like "meal/banquet ideas requiring ONLY THESE INGREDIENTS for this amount of money/fiber/calories." I feel like the choice for foods that go well together can also be lacking.
One thing I *have* had luck with has been "given these ingredients and these steps what order would be most logical to combine them into one stew/soup/roast/etc." Mostly because it is scouring recipe sites for similar dishes.
I'm sure it'd be possible to do better on all the prompts I mentioned above but it usually requires a lot of back-and-forth. I might as well do my own thing by that point.