Custom Recipe Generator
Build a Custom Recipe Around What You Have
i. purpose
Recipe Black Box is a recipe generator. You say what you have, and Recipe Black Box builds recipes that work from those ingredients, in those amounts, for your situation.
The input is what is in front of you. "Chicken thighs, half a cabbage, rice" is enough. Recipe Black Box asks what the dish has to fit — how many people, how much time, what equipment, any constraint — then works out which cooking methods those ingredients support and what each ingredient contributes structurally. Basic staples are assumed present: salt, pepper, oil, butter, garlic, onion, flour, sugar, an acid, stock. Say if one is missing and the recipe is rebuilt without it. What comes back is two or three complete recipes, each with quantities, method, sequence and finishing.
Recipe Black Box generates rather than searches, so there is no database of existing recipes being matched against your list. Recipe Black Box returns a range rather than a single answer, because the same ingredients go in genuinely different directions across methods and cuisines. Baking is covered alongside cooking, built on the ratios that hold each thing together.