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Brainstorming a dish with AI

Every candidate has a Brainstorm panel. Ask what’s nagging you — “what pasta shape pairs with smoked guanciale?”, “a cheaper substitute for the Pecorino?” — and it answers naming your actual inventory items, not “tomato”.

The rule

It’s a thinking partner, not an oracle. Every question and answer stays on the candidate, and tomorrow’s answer sees today’s conversation — plus whatever your team commented in between.

Proposed changes

When your question is about changing the dish, the answer comes with concrete edits underneath it — each a small card labelled verb-first: “Add 200g guanciale”, “Update step 2”, “Remove pancetta”.

  • Apply lands the change above and flips the card to ✓ Applied.
  • ↶ Undo reverses it exactly from the snapshot taken when you applied. If you’ve since moved that row it refuses rather than rewriting the wrong thing.
  • With several unapplied suggestions, a strip appears with checkboxes and one Apply. Right for a coordinated set that only makes sense together.

Open questions like “what wine pairs?” return prose only, because there’s nothing to apply.

Pointing it somewhere specific

By default it scans your whole pantry and picks what’s relevant. Two controls above the question box narrow that:

  • Focus on specific items — add up to ten inventory chips. Those go in first as the primary focus. Use it when the dish already revolves around an ingredient and you want technique advice.
  • Include Product Hunt — lets it see supplier products you’re researching but haven’t approved yet, treating them as things you could add.

Each question shows its scope as badges in the thread, so re-reading later you see exactly what it was looking at.

Good to know

  • Applying re-validates against the current draft. If you’ve changed something since, the apply fails with a clear message rather than corrupting the row — ask a follow-up to refresh it.
  • Applied actions stay marked in the thread, so the conversation becomes the dish’s history: who suggested what, what you took, what you ignored.
  • If it’s confidently wrong, push back — it usually adjusts. If it stays wrong, that’s a signal your inventory notes are missing context on that item.