A cooking assistant that stays in the kitchen

Cook with someone who knows why.

Cuisson reads your recipe, checks what it says, and then cooks it with you: step by step, in your ear or on the counter, for as much of the cook as you want.

Free while we are getting the kitchen right. Your recipes are yours alone.

  • 145 °Fstated, high confidence
  • 2 allergensdeclared, indicated
  • 3 minrest, from the check

Mid-recipe, mid-sentence

Say what you see. Get the reason, and the fix.

A cooking session keeps Sous on the step you are on. Describe the pan in your own words and the answer comes from what is known about the food and the process, not from a guess. Stay quiet and it stays quiet; every step still carries its notes if you want them.

My onions have been in the pan about 8 minutes and they're still pale.

SousThey are sweating, not browning. Browning needs the surface dry and hot enough for the Maillard reaction, and a crowded or cool pan keeps the onions steaming in their own water. Spread them out, turn the heat up a little, and leave them alone for a minute between stirs. If the pan is small, do them in two batches.
Maillard reactionwater and heatfrom the book, page cited

ok. and when do I add the garlic?

SousOnce the onions have colour: garlic burns in the time onions take to brown. Your recipe puts it at step 4, after the onions and before the tomatoes.

Your recipe box

Everything a recipe manager does. Then it reads.

Keep every recipe you cook from in one place, from any site, book or scrap of paper. The difference is what happens next: each one is read, checked and understood, so the box you keep is the box you can ask questions of.

  • Paste it, or bring it from a link

    Any recipe as text, from anywhere, saved as you gave it and read on the spot. Or paste a page's address: most recipe sites publish the recipe in a form the app reads as it is, and a page that does not gets a plain answer rather than a guess.

  • Versions, never overwrites

    Edit a recipe and the earlier text stays. Every version is kept and readable, so a change you regret is a click away.

  • Cook for six, or for two

    Scale a recipe by servings or by a factor. The list is rewritten the way a cook writes it, teaspoons become tablespoons and cups when they should, metric sits beside it, and any step that carries an amount is offered to you rather than changed behind your back.

  • Tags, search, and what you can make tonight

    Tag and search the box, and sort it by what your pantry already covers: the recipes with the fewest things to buy come first.

  • The week and the shopping list

    Lay the week out from the box, batch what keeps, and get one list against your pantry. Six diets screened across the plan.

What it does

Before the cook, during it, and for the week ahead.

  • Company for the whole cook

    Start a cooking session and Sous walks the steps with you: what this step is doing, what to look for, what to do when the onions will not brown. Ask at every step, or only when something looks wrong. Your call, every time.

  • Read before you cook

    Paste a recipe and it is read: the temperatures it states against the Food Code minimums, the allergens it declares, the diets it conflicts with. Findings with their confidence, and the limits of each one, in plain words.

  • The why, from the book

    Why the oven is preheated, why the sauce broke, why kosher salt and table salt are not the same spoon. Answers grounded in a reference on the science of cooking, with the source beside them.

  • A week you can shop for

    Lay out the week, batch what keeps, and get one shopping list against what your pantry already holds. Six diets screened across the whole plan.

What it will never tell you.

It will never tell you a dish is safe. It reads what a recipe says: whether a temperature is stated and how it compares with the minimum, which allergens are declared, what a diet conflicts with. Whether your chicken reached that temperature is a fact about your kitchen tonight, and only a thermometer knows it.

So every check is a finding with its confidence and its limits written out, and Sous writes the sentences around them, never the findings themselves.

Bring a recipe. Bring a question. Bring dinner.

Sign in and paste the first one.

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