Show & Tell: AI-powered recipe generator from fridge photos

Aisha Mohammed
Aisha MohammedMar 22, 2026

I built FridgeChef — take a photo of your fridge contents and get recipe suggestions! Uses GPT-4o vision to identify ingredients, then generates recipes.

Tech stack:

  • Next.js frontend
  • GPT-4o for ingredient identification + recipe generation
  • DALL-E 3 for recipe preview images
  • The vision model is surprisingly good at identifying specific ingredients, even partially obscured ones. It correctly identified 87% of items in my testing.

    Live demo at [link]. Built this over a weekend hackathon. Would love feedback!

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    Dr. Anna Kowalski

    For medical applications specifically, I'd add these strategies:

    5. Citation verification: Require the model to cite specific paragraphs from source docs 6. Factual extraction only: Don't let the model generate — only extract and restructure 7. Multi-model consensus: Run the same query through 2 models and flag disagreements

    We use strategy #7 in our research pipeline and it catches ~60% of hallucinations that single-model validation misses.

    Dave Sharp

    Multi-model consensus is clever but doubles the cost. We implemented citation verification and it's been our most effective single strategy. If the model can't point to a specific passage in the source document, we flag it for human review.

    Maria Santos

    This is an area we're actively working on. Some tips from our end:

    • Use lower temperature (0.1-0.3) for factual tasks
    • Structured Outputs can constrain the output to valid options
    • The Assistants API with file_search automatically includes citations

    We're also working on built-in hallucination detection features. Stay tuned!

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