A small kitchen, a stubborn idea.

CookSth started as an answer to the question almost everyone asks at six in the evening: what is for dinner. Not what would be nice for dinner. Not what we ought to have planned for dinner. Just — given this fridge, this pantry, this remaining hour — what.

We were tired of recipes that began three ingredients out of reach. We were tired of meal-kits that promised to think for us, and of food media that mostly told us where to spend money. We wanted a tool that worked the other direction: from the kitchen outward, not the recipe inward.

A different starting point.

Type in what you have. Five things, three things, one bag of spinach and an old onion. CookSth writes you a recipe, plates it with a few photos, and gets out of your way. No sign-up, no feeds, no nudges to upgrade. Just the dish.

The recipes are tailored by our smart kitchen — an engine we hand-tuned line by line — but the editing, the tone, the sense of a real cookbook on a real counter, is ours. We read every prompt. We argue about commas. We care that the instructions sound like a person wrote them.

What we are not.

CookSth is not a social network. It is not a calorie tracker, a meal planner, or a grocery service. We will not email you. We will not turn your kitchen into a dashboard. The site exists to get you off the site and into the kitchen as quickly as possible.