Will Do Chef
iPhone app

A sous chef on your iPhone.

Will Do Chef is an app for cooking at home. Its sous chef, Ziggy, keeps your recipes in grams, reads your pantry from one filmed pass, and times the meal to your oven.

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Will Do Chef on iPhone, cooking Kickin' three-pasta mac: the step now is Brown the butter, 75 g of unsalted butter in a wide light-colored skillet over medium-low heat for roughly 4 to 7 minutes, with Toast the panko and Cool and store marked ahead, and Done, Next, voice and sous chef keys.
Ziggy, the sous chef, a deli quart drawn in marker, waving.

What you do, and what Ziggy works out

  1. All 23 ingredients of Kickin' three-pasta mac in the app, amounts in grams with the spoon or cup beside them: 550 g sharp cheddar, 900 g milk, dry mustard 2 g with 1 tsp beside it, coarse black pepper 1.15 g with 0.5 tsp beside it.
    1 · Bring in a recipe

    Paste a recipe. Cook it in grams.

    Paste a link or the full text. Ziggy builds a recipe you can cook from, with amounts in grams and the spoon or cup beside them, and flags any missing amount before you save.

    Behind the scenes

    • 1 tsp dry mustard = 2 g0.41 g per mL, from USDA FoodData Central (food 170929).
    • 0.5 tsp coarse black pepper = 1.15 g0.47 g per mL, from USDA FoodData Central (food 170931).
    • No sourced density, no guessThe cup stays a cup, and the review says so.
  2. The pantry review after filming the shelves: Orchard honey, 350 g unopened, seen twice and counted as one, with the two frames it was read from and a Confirm 9 items key.
    2 · Film your shelves

    Walk past the shelves once.

    Ziggy reads every label into grams and shows you the frame it read. Your pantry changes only when you confirm.

    Behind the scenes

    • Orchard honey: 350 g, unopenedRead from the label in the frame at 41 seconds.
    • Seen at 41 s and 77 s, counted onceThe same jar, filmed twice. One tap splits it into two.
    • Strawberry jam: about 270 to 340 g leftThe label says 340 g; what is left comes from how full the jar looks.
    • Opened jam keeps 6 to 12 monthsIn the fridge, from USDA FoodKeeper, one of 1,198 storage records Ziggy checks.
  3. The plan for Sunday in the app: ready 6:25 to 6:30 PM, starting 4:40 PM, a strip of the afternoon up to serving at 6:30, 21 minutes hands-on, the main oven 4:52 to 6:10 PM, and the roast chicken ticket from 4:40, above an Accept plan key.
    3 · Plan the meal

    Say when you eat. Get the timing.

    Pick the dishes and the time to serve. Ziggy works back from that time, books the oven and pans each step needs, and plans around the hours you are out.

    Behind the scenes

    • Serve 6:30 PM: start 4:40Worked back from the serving time: the chicken takes 5 to 10 minutes to season, 70 to 80 to roast and 15 to 20 to rest.
    • Main oven 4:50 to 6:10 PMBooked for the roast alone. Each step books its equipment, and a clash shows before you accept.
    • Peas 6:12 to 6:26, carrots 6:18 to 6:26On the stove while the chicken rests, so all three are done by 6:30.
    • 21 minutes hands-onThe rest is oven time and short breaks, marked on the strip.
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Ziggy runs in the cloud and comes with Premium. Pick a plan and we'll email you when it opens. Nothing is charged until you subscribe in the App Store.

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