From fridge to fork — cook what you have.
OhAPotato is a free, AI-powered recipe finder that helps you cook great meals from the ingredients you already have at home. Instead of searching for a recipe and then shopping for a long list of items, OhAPotato works the other way around: you tell it what's in your fridge and pantry, and it finds the best recipes that match.
Select ingredients from a visual grid covering proteins, produce, dairy, grains, and pantry staples. OhAPotato searches multiple recipe databases — including Edamam and Spoonacular — and returns ranked results based on how many of your selected ingredients each recipe uses. Kitchen staples like salt, butter, garlic, olive oil, eggs, and flour are pre-selected by default so you don't have to tick them every time.
OhAPotato covers hundreds of ingredient combinations. Whether you have chicken breast and broccoli, pasta and canned tomatoes, ground beef and taco shells, or just eggs and cheese, the app finds matching recipes ranked by ingredient match percentage. Results include cook time, difficulty, serving size, and full nutrition information per serving.
For any recipe, Chef Mode uses Gemini AI to provide Michelin-level cooking insights: the techniques involved, the food science behind the dish, ingredient substitution ideas, plating suggestions, and drink pairings. It's like having a professional chef explain exactly how to make a great version of the recipe.
The built-in weekly meal planner generates a full week of breakfast, lunch, and dinner suggestions matched to your dietary preferences, with calorie and macro targets per meal. You can customise for vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, dairy-free, low-carb, paleo, and keto diets. A built-in shopping list collects everything you need for the week.
Yes, completely free. No subscription required. If you enjoy using it, you can support the project by buying us a coffee.
No account is required to search for recipes. Creating a free account lets you save favourite recipes and access the meal planner.
Each result shows a match percentage based on how many of your selected ingredients the recipe uses. Results are sorted so the closest matches appear first.
Yes. OhAPotato is fully responsive and works on any smartphone or tablet browser.
OhAPotato also publishes practical cooking guides to help you cook smarter and waste less food:
Practical guides to help you cook better meals, waste less food, and make the most of whatever's in your kitchen. Written by Michael Morris, food writer and founder of OhAPotato.
The average household throws away nearly a third of the vegetables it buys. This guide covers the difference between wilting and spoiling, a "use it up" hierarchy based on age, five dishes that use up almost any vegetable, blanching and freezing techniques, and storage habits that reduce waste significantly.
Keep these twelve ingredients stocked and you'll never stare blankly at your fridge again: olive oil, salt, black pepper, garlic, canned tomatoes, dried pasta, rice, eggs, butter, soy sauce, onions, and canned legumes. This guide explains what each one does and why it matters.
Two focused hours on Sunday can mean the difference between eating well every night and ordering takeaway. This guide explains the batch cooking framework — cook a grain, a protein, and a sauce — with a practical weekly plan, storage guidelines, and the tools that make it easier.
Nothing transforms cooking quite like confident knife skills. This guide covers sharpening and honing, the correct pinch grip, the guiding claw hand, five essential cuts (dice, julienne, chiffonade, brunoise, chop), and how to break down common vegetables efficiently.
The single thing that separates good home cooking from great restaurant food is seasoning. This guide explains what salt actually does at a molecular level, how to season at every stage of cooking, the role of acid in balancing flavours, and how to taste and adjust throughout cooking.
Good meal planning isn't about optimising every meal — it's about removing enough daily decisions that cooking feels manageable. This guide covers how to plan for the week you actually have, not the week you wish you had, with templates, shopping strategies, and ways to avoid burnout.
Eating well doesn't require spending a lot. This guide covers the cheapest protein sources per gram, which vegetables give the best nutritional value per pound, how to use cheaper cuts of meat, batch cooking for economy, and how to reduce food waste to stretch your budget further.
Out of an ingredient mid-recipe? This guide covers substitutions for common dairy, egg, acid, fat, flour, and fresh herb situations — with explanations of why each substitution works and when it won't.
Whether you're cooking chicken breast, salmon, steak, eggs, or legumes, the principles are the same: temperature control, resting, and understanding what heat does to protein. This guide covers each major protein source with specific temperatures, timing, and the most common mistakes to avoid.
The average household throws away around $1,500 of food per year. This guide covers smarter shopping habits, first-in-first-out fridge organisation, how to use vegetable scraps for stocks and broths, composting basics, and the psychology of why we waste food and how to change it.