ask.recipes

Name: ask.recipes
Author: RCM7

by RCM7version 1.0.0i★ –iRuns in the cloud

Registry namerecipes.ask/ask-recipes

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Overview

Description from the maker (original English)

Recipe search, ingredient matching, nutrition filters and a private cookbook for any AI agent.

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UsageiNot measured yet★ –

What you can do with it

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Connection: Runs in the cloud
Transport: Streamable HTTP
Category: Games, sports, food & learning

Install

Pick the AI app you use, then copy the settings.

Before you install

Basic checks: 1 of 1 passed
Runs on the maker’s server: what you ask it goes through their server.
The registry lists no key to fill in.

You need

Runs in the cloudNothing to install; it connects over the internet

Which app do you use?

ClaudeClaude CodeCursorVS CodeChatGPT

Pick your app above. We remember it, so next time the button says “Install in …”.

Works in Claude on the web, desktop and mobile:

Open Settings → Connectors
Press Add custom connector
Paste the address below and press Add
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp

Run this in your terminal

claude mcp add --transport http ask-recipes https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp

Open in Cursor

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .cursor/mcp.json in your project, or ~/.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ask-recipes": {
      "url": "https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

Open in VS Code

Or copy the settings yourself

Paste into .vscode/mcp.json in your project

{
  "servers": {
    "ask-recipes": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Your browser asks to open the app, then the app shows the settings and asks you to confirm. Key values are left empty for you to fill in.

ChatGPT connects only to servers on the internet:

Open ChatGPT on the web → Settings → Connectors (Apps)
Press Create or Add (some plans need Developer mode under Advanced first)
Paste the address below, give it a name and save
If it asks you to sign in, sign in with the maker

https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp

Menu names can differ slightly by plan and over time.

Your choice stays on this device in a cookie; no account needed.

These settings are generated from the maker’s registry entry. If the README says otherwise, follow the README.

What it can do

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Basic checksi

We check information anyone can see; we have not read the code. Checks that do not apply are left out of the count. · Checked Nov 7, 2026

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Maker matches the repo
The registry name was verified against the domain ask.recipes (the registry checks domain ownership)
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Endpoint responds
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Sign-in with OAuth
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No hidden instructions in tool descriptions
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Compared with others in Games, sports, food & learningi

More stars than 0% of the other 1283 servers in this category
Published to the registry more recently than 57% of the other 1283 servers in this category
Basic checks equal to or better than 100% of the other 1283 servers in this category

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Common questions

Is ask.recipes safe?

It passed 1 of 1 applicable basic checks. We have not read the code. Before adding a key or token, see what access the server asks for and use a key with only the permissions you need.

What keys or codes does it need?

The registry does not list a required key, though some servers ask you to sign in on first use.

Does it run on my computer or in the cloud?

It runs in the maker’s cloud. Connect over the internet with nothing to install, but what you send passes through the maker’s servers.

Is it still maintained?

The GitHub repo last changed –, and the latest version (1.0.0) reached the registry 23 days ago.

Which apps can use it?

Apps that support MCP, such as Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor and VS Code. It connects by URL, so apps that accept remote MCP servers work too, such as ChatGPT in developer mode.

What can I use instead?

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README from the maker

Open the README

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ask.recipes

Also on Smithery.

Your AI's cookbook. A remote MCP server: connect it once and your agent finds recipes, checks nutrition, cooks from what is in the fridge, remembers how your household eats, keeps your cookbooks and pantry, remembers what you cooked, keeps your own recipes and sends any of them to your Thermomix.

Free. No ads. Every recipe links to its source.

https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp

Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Claude Code, Cursor and any MCP client that speaks streamable HTTP with OAuth.

Connect

ChatGPT: open the ask.recipes app page and add it. Manual route: Settings → Connectors → Advanced → Developer mode → add the URL, OAuth as the authentication.

Claude (web, desktop, mobile): open the ask.recipes listing in the Claude directory and connect it, sign in when asked. Manual route: Settings → Customize → Connectors → Add custom connector → paste the URL above.

Claude Code

claude mcp add --transport http ask-recipes https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp

then /mcp to sign in.

Cursor, .cursor/mcp.json:

"mcpServers": { "ask-recipes": { "url": "https://mcp.ask.recipes/mcp" } } }

Anything else: streamable HTTP, OAuth 2.1 with PKCE and dynamic client registration. Discovery at https://mcp.ask.recipes/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource.

Sign-in is an email address and the code sent to it. No password. The newsletter is off unless you tick the box.

What to ask

"What's for dinner? Chicken thighs, a lemon and rice, under 40 minutes."
"I have oats, milk, eggs and berries. Breakfast?"
"A high-protein lunch under 500 calories."
"Something vegetarian people actually rate well, 30 minutes."
"Ten people coming over on Saturday. One pot."
"The second one in full, for six." then "Save it under BBQ."
"What's in my Stews cookbook?"
"Bought rice, eggs and two chickens." then later "What can I make with what I have?"
"We made the curry tonight, kids loved it." then later "What did we cook last week?"
"That lasagna was a 4."
"We don't eat cilantro, and Sam can't have berries."
"Plan dinners Monday to Friday: three vegetarian, one chicken, one fish." then "What do I need to buy?"
"Share my pantry with my partner."
"Import my Paprika recipes."
"Keep this family recipe: ..." or "Here's a photo of my mum's recipe card, keep it."
"Give me a link to send my sister the lasagna I uploaded."
"Send the lasagna to my Bimby."

Tools

tool	does
`search_recipes`	Search by dish or ingredient. Filters: total time, rating, review count, diet (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free), calories, protein, fat, carbs, sugar, fiber, main protein, ingredients to leave out, head count.
`find_by_ingredients`	Rank recipes by how many of your ingredients they use and how few extra they need. Your pantry counts as on hand; with nothing passed it cooks from the pantry alone.
`get_recipe`	One recipe in full: ingredients, steps, times, yield, nutrition, source link. Scales the ingredients to a servings number.
`get_pantry`, `add_to_pantry`, `remove_from_pantry`	What is in your kitchen, kept by talking: "bought milk and onions", "used the last eggs".
`save_recipe`, `unsave_recipe`, `list_saved`	Your collection, kept in cookbooks, with a note per recipe and when you last cooked it. Kept across sessions and clients.
`list_cookbooks`, `create_cookbook`, `update_cookbook`, `delete_cookbook`	Named cookbooks ("Stews", "BBQ", "Christmas"), created on first use. Deleting one never loses a recipe.
`mark_cooked`, `cooked_history`	A cooking diary kept by talking: what you cooked, when, how it went, and your stars if you gave a verdict. Your agent reads it before planning a week so nothing repeats.
`rate_recipe`	Your stars for a recipe, 1 to 5, with an optional note. Rating again replaces them.
`get_profile`, `update_profile`	How the household eats: allergens, dislikes, likes, diets, weeknight time, units and goals, with what applies to each person alone. Applied to every search.
`get_household`, `invite_to_household`, `update_household`, `leave_household`, `remove_from_household`	Share a kitchen: one pantry, one cooking diary, shared cookbooks, and everyone's allergens on a search for everyone.
`upload_recipe`	A private recipe of your own: typed, dictated, from a photo, or extracted from a web page.
`import_recipes`	A one-time link to drop an export file from Paprika, Mela or Crouton. Every recipe stays private to you.
`share_recipe`	An unlisted link to one of your uploaded recipes, readable without an account.
`connect_cookidoo`, `disconnect_cookidoo`	Link your Cookidoo account (Thermomix / Bimby) through a one-time form.
`send_to_thermomix`	Any recipe into your Cookidoo as a private created recipe, with time, temperature and speed on every step, ready for guided cooking.
`list_cookidoo_recipes`, `search_cookidoo`, `import_cookidoo_recipe`	Your own Cookidoo recipes, Cookidoo's catalogue through your account, and a copy of one into your private collection.

Prompts

prompt	does
`set_up_my_kitchen`	A few questions once about who eats at home, allergies, dislikes, favourites, diets, weeknight time and units. Every search after that respects them.
`cook_what_i_have`	Recipes ranked by what you have on hand, with what each one is missing.
`dinner_tonight`	A well-rated dinner within a time, serving and diet limit.
`plan_my_week`	A week of dinners from who is eating and rules like three vegetarian, one chicken, one fish, without repeating recent dinners.
`shopping_list`	One list for several recipes or the week's plan, scaled to who is eating, pantry crossed off.

Good to know

Search ranks by how closely a recipe matches the query and applies no rating cut on its own. Ask for well-rated only and your agent passes a minimum.
A recipe's rating is one number: the source site's ratings and ask.recipes users' stars averaged together, weighted by count. Your own stars come back separately as my_rating.
Nutrition is per serving as the source published it. Nutrition filters only return recipes whose yield is stated in servings.
"Not chicken again": your agent can leave ingredients out of one search, matched as whole words, so "egg" never drops eggplant and "nut" never drops nutmeg or coconut.
From six people up, dishes cooked in one vessel (stews, braises, soups, casseroles, tray bakes, roasts) rank ahead of dishes cooked per portion, and your agent can leave the per-portion ones out.
Diet flags are judged from the ingredient list, conservatively: oats count as gluten, peanuts count as nuts, coconut does not. A recipe on the edge is left out of a diet filter rather than let in.
Share links carry schema.org Recipe markup with the nutrition, so a shared recipe imports by URL into MyFitnessPal, Cronometer, Paprika and most recipe apps. Crawled recipes cannot be shared this way; share the source link instead.
Cookidoo is an unofficial integration; Vorwerk offers no API. The Cookidoo tools work in Claude and other MCP clients and are not available in ChatGPT. Recipes imported from Cookidoo stay private and are never shareable.
The corpus is built from openly licensed recipe data and recipe sites' own schema.org markup. Crawling is done by AskRecipesBot: honest user agent, robots.txt respected, one request at a time per site.
No browsing UI exists and none is planned. The agent is the interface.

Links

ask.recipes · Docs · Privacy · Terms · hello@ask.recipes

Built by Ricardo. The server is not open source; this repository exists so the connector is easy to find.

ask.recipes

Overview

PopNx MCP’s three pillars

What you can do with it

Install

Before you install

What it can do

Basic checksi

Maker matches the repo

Still maintained

Has a licence

Endpoint responds

Sign-in with OAuth

No hidden instructions in tool descriptions

Compared with others in Games, sports, food & learningi

Common questions

Alternatives

Neural Cosmology

slopped.site

Artsonia MCP

README from the maker

ask.recipes

Connect

What to ask

Tools

Prompts

Good to know

Links