Malcolm AI
Recipes from your ingredients
Add what you have, exclude what you don't, or just describe a craving. Malcolm builds complete recipes with UK metric quantities, timers and smart swaps.
Ask Malcolm, your AI chef
Whatever's in your kitchen, Malcolm makes it dinner.
Tell Malcolm what you have, how long you've got and how confident you feel. He creates complete, ranked recipes, each grounded in Escoffier's classical cookery and shown with a photoreal preview of the finished dish.
Start your free 7-day Head Chef trial See plans
- Free to start, no card needed
- UK 14 allergens flagged
- 2,999 Escoffier classics
Why AIchef.food
A real chef's brain, for your real kitchen
Malcolm gives you more than a recipe search. Here's what you get.
Classical authority
Grounded in Escoffier
Every search draws on all 2,999 entries of Escoffier's 1907 Guide to Modern Cookery, with genuine citations. There's also a searchable Escoffier Classics library.
See it first
Photoreal dish previews
Each recipe comes with a lifelike preview of the finished plate, created by Malcolm's image engine, so you can see what you're cooking before you start.
Monthly
Your personal magazine
A beautiful PDF every month: three recipes chosen from your tastes, wine pairings, an aisle-by-aisle shopping list and a note from the Escoffier archive.
Household
Cooking for the whole family
Gastronomique · Lux Prime covers up to 5 people, each with their own magazine. Kids mode suggests family-friendly dishes and flags the grown-up jobs.
Personal
Learns what you love
Favourites and history shape what Malcolm suggests next, and your magazine is built from them too. Start free with 3 searches, and upgrade only if you love it.
How it works
From fridge to fork in four steps
Tell Malcolm what you have
Ingredients to use or avoid, or simply the dish you fancy.
Set time, skill and diet
Ten-minute supper or Sunday showstopper, with vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, halal and more.
Get ranked recipes
Complete methods, step timers, allergens and a photoreal preview, with Escoffier citations where they apply.
Cook, save and share
Favourite it, print it, send the shopping list to your phone, or share a beautiful recipe card.
Escoffier Classics
2,999
classical recipes behind every suggestion
Auguste Escoffier's 1907 guide is the foundation of modern professional cooking. Malcolm consults it for every search and cites the entries he used, and he never makes up a reference.
“Above all, keep it simple.” — A. Escoffier
AIchef.food Magazine · The Lux Prime Kitchen Edition
Your kitchen, in print, every month
A personalised PDF magazine written for you by Malcolm and drawn from your own cooking history.
- Three new recipes matched to your favourites, history and diet
- Wine pairings by style, grape and region
- A shopping list grouped by aisle, with “running low?” reminders
- A cover made for you, plus a note from the Escoffier archive
Plans
Start free. Upgrade when you're hooked.
All plans include allergen safety, metric scaling, print and share.
👑 Chef of Kings
The members' top 10
Ranked by star ratings from members, weighted for trust and volume, plus hearts, cooks and recent activity. Your favourites
FAQ
Questions, answered
Who is Malcolm?
Malcolm is the AI chef behind AIchef.food. He turns your ingredients, time, skill and diet into complete recipes, using Escoffier's classical guide as his reference.
Is it really free to start?
Yes. Commis Chef is free for ever with 3 recipe searches, and new accounts get a 7-day Head Chef trial with no card needed.
What's included in the monthly magazine?
Three personalised recipes, wine pairings, an aisle-grouped shopping list and an Escoffier note, delivered as a PDF. It's included in Head Chef and Gastronomique, or available as an add-on.
Can my whole household use one plan?
Gastronomique · Lux Prime covers up to 5 members. Each gets their own account and their own personalised magazine.
Are the dish photos real?
They're photoreal previews created by Malcolm's image engine to show roughly how the dish will look. Your plate may differ.
How do you handle allergies and diets?
Recipes are tagged for the UK 14 allergens, and you can filter for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, nut-free and halal. Always check product labels.
Can I cancel any time?
Yes. You can manage or cancel your plan from your account at any time.
Dinner, sortedWhat's in your kitchen tonight?
Ask Malcolm free, or try every Head Chef feature for 7 days with no card needed.