EasyChef

EasyChef is a phone app that turns the ingredients already in your kitchen into a recipe. You tell it what is in the fridge, and it writes a dish to match, tuned to your diet and the pots you own. Pick eggs, rice and a tomato, and it gives you dinner instead of another errand. It runs on iOS and Android, with a three-day trial and then €2.99 a month.

The problem it picks is a real one, and it turns up most evenings: there is food in the house and no plan. Most recipe apps work the wrong way round. They hand you a dish, then a shopping list of things you do not have. EasyChef starts from your shelves and works outward. The idea is clean, and the app is pleasant to move through.

Here is the part to read slowly. Every recipe is written by an AI model, fresh, the moment you ask, and no person has ever cooked it. EasyChef says this itself. Its terms tell you to double-check the cooking times, the measurements and any allergens, because it takes no responsibility for them. That is an honest disclaimer, and it is also the whole risk in one place. A wrong number in an app is a bug. A wrong number in a recipe is a raw dinner, or worse for someone with an allergy.

The price is easy to forgive: €2.99 a month, or €29.99 for the year, after three free days. Two honest notes sit next to it. There are no refunds once you start, because each recipe costs the maker real money to generate. And the app is young, with a stated thousand-plus cooks behind it. That is a promising start, not yet a track record.

Our take: EasyChef answers a question you actually ask most nights, and the idea earns the look. Take the three days and cook two or three real dinners from it. Read each recipe like a draft before you turn on the heat, and judge it on whether the food was good and the numbers were right, not on how nice the app feels in your hand.