What are we making tonight?

Ask Chef Tony is a free, browser-based cooking assistant and recipe organizer. It can create a personalized recipe from your ingredients, preferences, equipment, skill level and diners; recreate a restaurant dish from photos; or help you bring an existing recipe into your private library.

Yes. Start from Scratch lets you name ingredients you want to use and choose how you are cooking. Signed-in members can also keep pantry defaults and available equipment in My Kitchen. Pantry defaults guide a recipe, but they are not treated as a live inventory guarantee.

Yes. With a free account, File to Flavor can read a supported recipe webpage, public recipe evidence from Instagram, TikTok or YouTube, or a photo or scan of a paper recipe. You review a private preview before filing it. My Recipes lets you search, sort and filter Tony-made, saved, imported and household recipes in one place.

Yes. Household members can share selected recipes, kitchen equipment, pantry defaults and one consolidated shopping list. Personal preferences, ratings and private recipes stay personal unless a member deliberately shares them.

Each newly generated recipe goes through automated checks for complete ingredients and instructions, timing and serving consistency, requested diet or allergy conflicts, and required food-safety cues such as internal temperatures. These are automated checks, not a claim that every recipe was cooked in a test kitchen. Always verify labels, allergen exposure and doneness in your kitchen.

You can provide food allergies, ingredient avoidances and diet preferences when Tony creates or adapts a recipe, and the system checks the result against those requested constraints. Brands, substitutions, shared equipment and cross-contact can still change allergen exposure, so always check every package label and use appropriate medical guidance.

Not yet. Ask Chef Tony currently helps you create, import, save, adapt, remix and cook recipes, then combine selected recipe ingredients in a shared shopping list. It does not currently build a Monday-through-Sunday meal calendar.

No. Tony adjusts guidance to your skill level and equipment, provides step-by-step instructions and includes recipe-specific Field Notes that explain why an important technique works.

Yes. Bring It Home uses the dish name, restaurant or menu details, photos and your dietary needs to create a practical recipe inspired by that meal for your home kitchen.

Ask Chef Tony and its member account are currently free to use, with no paid subscription required. Salted Perfection seasonings are optional. When Tony suggests one, the recipe also includes a measured pantry alternative.