- Hello and welcome back to the channel.
Today we are gonna deep dive into AI
and to see if perhaps it can help our normal home cooks
in the kitchen by combining ingredients
that might otherwise be tricky to put together.
- Yeah, so we are gonna take artificial intelligence app,
ChatGPT, which has been blowing up across the Internet,
and we're gonna put a series of ingredients into it
and see if it can come up with a recipe that might be
better than one that we would come up with.
- So rather than relying on a bunch
of ingredients that we know are gonna work
we're gonna lead this up to fate
by choosing ingredients out of these glasses.
- Pick one from each.
A protein, a vegetable, a sauce,
and a miscellaneous ingredient.
- Protein is minced beef.
- Vegetable is lettuce.
- Okay, lettuce and beef.
- Yeah, yeah, yeah.
- Fish sauce.
- And our miscellaneous is dark chocolate.
- Oh no.
- Right here we go.
- [All] Beef and dark chocolate lettuce cups
with fish sauce dressing.
- So it's using a few other ingredients
in the store cupboard as well.
Except it's now written you a seven step method
with full weights and measures for a recipe.
- Ah, I don't know.
- Still a bit odd to me.
- Right let's get the ingredients.
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Do we need do some prepping first?
- We need to do some prepping first.
- So I think what will be interesting here
is to see how much of the thinking it's been able
to do for you in terms of the prep, the method,
the weights and measurements, the seasoning,
the cooking times and temperatures.
See how close it can get to what perhaps a chef
would do automatically when given those ingredients.
- The only thing about what it tells you
about the ingredients and how they want them prepared
is it kind of forced you to do this bit upfront
when there actually might be time in the recipe
to do this during a step.
- I know that we write our recipes with starting
from full ingredients, you process them as you go inside.
- How you cook at home.
- Yeah, exactly.
And so it really winds me up whenever I look
at any other recipes that do it the other way.
- This software trawls through something
like 8 million documents, articles, websites,
and uses that data.
So if the majority of recipes are geared up to prep
ingredients first, that's probably where it'll end up.
So at the moment you haven't even got to step one.
- Nope. - No.
- We're just,
we're just being good boys. - Yeah.
- One yellow onion sliced
- Sliced, look at those slices.
- What's wrong?
- You may as well cut that in quarters?
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- Why is Barry (censored)
(Barry laughing)
So step one in the large skillet over a medium heat,
heat the sesame oil, add the garlic and ginger
and cook until fragrant about a minute.
- Okay.
- Yeah bearing mind, this is going to use
the American terms and imperial.
Already it knows that you have to use the fish sauce
so it's chosen an oil that might also be associated
with that part of the world.
- Haven't read the entire recipe
but the ingredients look like, look sensible.
It's just the chocolate that's just,
I'm looking at how they're gonna squeeze it in.
Add the minced beef to the skillet and cook,
breaking up into small pieces until brown
and cooked through about eight minutes.
Season with salt and pepper.
- How much minced beef, Baz?
- One pound.
- So what we are now seeing is normal home cooks
deal with imperial.
- So what's, how many, how many ounces in a pound?
- Oh, come on, pub quiz trivia.
- I don't know.
What would I know that?
There you go, got it.
One pound of minced beef going in.
- So interestingly what it's done
is base it on obviously imperial.
So we are looking at US measurements
and it's asked for a pound,
which not ideal if you're buying UK packet sizes.
'Cause we'd have typically 500 grammes,
which is why you've now got some leftover.
You can probably throw that in in the spirit of things.
We probably wouldn't want to leave that tiny amount left
'cause it would be wasted.
- Do you want a spare meatball for later on
or should I put it in, Jay?
- Throw it in.
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- Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together fish sauce,
rice vinegar, and sugar until the sugar has dissolved.
Whisk to combine.
Once the beef is cooked, is it cooked?
- Pretty much.
- Add the chopped dark chocolate to the skillet
and stir until melted and fully incorporated.
This is the bit, Jay.
- Dark chocolate in nicely spiced rich sauce.
Mole style is great.
We've never really had chocolate from
sort of the Southeast Asian influence of flavours.
But that's the challenge, we gave it.
Fish sauce and chocolate.
- So once its melted and fully incorporated
to assemble the lettuce cups.
Place two lettuce leaves on each plate.
Spoon the beef and chocolate mixture
into the centre of each lettuce leaf.
Not very cuppy, are they?
- No, we could have got cuppier lettuce.
- With any bit of software,
it requires inputs and it's only gonna be as good
as the inputs you give it.
So when we put in lettuce,
it presumes this lettuce could be cupped.
- Oh Jay it's not looking great this.
Right okay.
Now chuck on your beef.
- Hang on a second,
we're not cooking the onions,
we just coming in with raw onion.
- We'll get to that.
- Right.
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- In terms of cupping, you filled the cups but
we have to use all of that.
It gave us a very precise measurement.
- Right.
This is just gonna be mincemeat.
- Remove, trust me, I'm good at this bit.
Remove all intelligence.
(Jamie laughing)
- The beauty here is as a normal home cook,
you've opened up your fridge and cupboards
you've found four ingredients that you want to use up.
You've plugged it in and you've let the software
do the rest.
It's now quite painful to cook using that information
and not apply the chef logic.
- Right. I've now done what I would consider to be Jamie portions.
- Jamie, there's leftovers.
- Yep. - Keep going.
- Oh god.
- You've still got a whole onion
and a whole pepper to put on yet.
(laughing)
- Top with a sliced red bell pepper and onion.
- The onion's completely raw.
- No raw, raw onions completely fine as long as
it's sliced nice and thinly.
- To be fair to Jamie,
it doesn't specify how thinly to slice it.
And to be fair to the software,
we quite often finish a dish with a little bit of raw onion.
It gives it a real acidity and crunch and pepperiness.
We wouldn't use a whole onion in that instance.
It's normally maybe a quarter,
where we've used three quarters in the rest of the recipe.
- That's a lot of onion.
- I was worried when it started to spit out that
precise ingredients list and method
that we might be out of a job in the future.
And despite the fact there is some kickback on AI technology
and software and not everyone is comfortable
in the way it trawls information and re-purposes it.
I'm feeling more comfortable now.
- You've not tasted it yet.
- Okay, now we have to drizzle over the fish dressing
and then add your fresh coriander.
Which is just says chopped and it's optional
and doesn't tell you how much.
- Right, well let's see if we can get some sexies
of it and then we'll have a taste.
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- Let's see what it actually tastes like.
- Cheers.
- Hmm.
- With that dressing,
the flavour combo is actually really good.
- I actually really like that.
And the raw onion,
although there's a lot of it, adds that freshness.
- It needs to be there, but in smaller quantities.
- Oh, was worried about the chocolate,
but the the sweet fish sauce actually balances things out.
That's not that bad.
- Yeah.
- Certainly, I think if I was cooking the dish,
I'd have wanted to cook out the peppers and onions
a bit more.
Maybe keep a third back to that raw onion.
That is a nice touch.
And perhaps the ratio of lettuce cups to beef
is slightly off, but as a concept, an idea,
it's pretty good.
What it's done really nicely
is inspire a new dish based on the inputs.
- So far for inspiration tick,
for execution question mark.
- Couple of question marks.
- The good thing about the software is you don't just
have to put in one input and then follow along.
You can ask it other questions.
So perhaps ask it, how many this is gonna serve,
how long it's going to take, and what equipment we need.
Just so you know, it took you just under half an hour.
- This recipe should take about 20 to 25 minutes
to prepare and cook.
This includes the time it takes to brown the minced beef,
melt the dark chocolate,
and prepare the fish source dressing.
What equipment do I need for this recipe?
You will need the following equipment.
A large skillet or wok for cooking the beef and chocolate.
- Yes.
- A small bowl for mixing the fish sauce dressing.
- Sure.
- A cutting board, a knife for chopping the dark chocolate,
garlic, ginger, red bell pepper, yellow onion, and cilantro.
Optional.
Measuring spoons for measuring out the ingredients
and serving plates for the lettuce cups.
- Didn't mention the grater, to grate the garlic, ginger.
- It didn't mention a whisk.
- It used, it said whisk.
It said the verb to whisk.
I presumed it meant the actual utensil as well, but okay.
- This recipe will serve four people as a main dish
or eight people as an appetiser.
- I think that's a really decent effort.
- For a computer.
- Yeah.
- Should we try one more?
- Yes, let's get this really tested.
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- Same game, different categories,
based on what we had in the fridge.
This time, protein, selection of dairy options,
oils and miscellaneous.
- Our protein is crab.
- Oh, okay.
Interesting.
- Yep.
- Dairy, ah, blue cheese.
- Ooh.
- Trust you to pick that one.
- Our oil is sesame oil.
- So we used sesame in the last recipe
although it wasn't the input.
- Digestive biscuits.
(Jamie laughing)
Blue cheese and crab dip with digestive biscuit crust
and sesame oil.
- A what?
- This a pudding?
- Do you remember we had a lot of pimento cheese
and beer cheese dip in Kentucky,
which often had sweetened crackers.
I wonder if it's a bit like that
but with a blue cheese element.
- So we're just gonna, we've got a dip.
- You've not asked it for a dinner or a meal or a dessert.
You just asked it for recipe.
So there's the recipe.
- Can you give me UK measurements?
Here's a recipe using UK measurements.
- Excellent.
We'll get these ingredients
and we'll see how this one turns out.
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- Okay, so preheat the oven to 180
and grease a 23-centimetre pie dish.
- Is that about 30.
It's about.
- It's about 12 inches, I think.
- 23, boom.
- 23, wow.
- It's a solid nine inches.
- Alright, grease it.
Go, go, go.
And then I'll do this bit in a medium bowl mix together
blue cheese, crab meat, mayonnaise, sour cream,
heavy cream, sesame oil, salt and pepper.
- Again, this is now a recipe that
hasn't considered the packet sizes
you're buying ingredients in,
which is where so much food waste happens
as a result of recipes not geared up to thinking
about how you buy ingredients.
- All right.
You mix that together.
I need to scale.
So for my digestives, 215 grammes of digestives.
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- You're making your buttery biscuit base.
- Or topping.
- Into the bottom of and up the sides.
- Oh, so yeah, we are making like.
- We're making cheesecake.
- Yeah, you got cheese.
- The fishy cheesecake.
Fishy cheesecake.
- Because the blue cheese,
this has turned ever since slightly green.
It's a really interesting mix.
I would never in a million years thought of doing that.
I still don't quite understand how it's all gonna turn out.
Press that down into the tin and push up the sides.
So once the biscuits in, pour the blue cheese
and crab mixture into the crust.
Bake for 25 to 30 minutes.
- Until the filling is hot and bubbly.
- Now the blue cheese will obviously melt a bit more.
- It's gonna loosen isn't it, rather than thicken?
- Well, it's still technically a dip. (laughing)
So I don't really know what the base is.
It's, it's an odd, it's an odd one.
- Into the oven.
- I was confident until it was all in the pie thing and-
- Knowing the ingredients I'm not against
the blue cheese and crab and sesame dip.
Especially when it's baked and I can imagine pulling it out
and serving it with some char-grilled sourdough bread
to dip in or some crudites.
I think that would be really nice.
It is odd to have put it into a biscuit crust.
But then we put those ingredients in
and said you have to do something with digestive biscuits.
So, you know, I don't think as a chef
I would've put those together.
But that's the thing we challenged it with.
- Ooh, Jamie.
- It feels like it's souffléd.
- It looks like it's risen but it hasn't.
- I think what it's done is taken two excellent things,
and in its AI intelligence presumed they'll work together.
A hot blue cheese and crab dip and a cheesecake,
which would need to now set before being sliced for sure.
- It just says sprinkle the sesame seeds
and serve hot with additional digestive biscuits if desired.
Enjoy.
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It holds together with a crust.
It definitely has split below the surface.
Oh my goodness.
So you got a lot.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
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- It smells a lot more blue.
The first taste is crab and you are left with blue cheese.
- And the sweetness of the digestive biscuit
just tops it off.
- That is not great, but I can see what it's trying to do.
- I'm not a blue cheese fan.
I'm relying, the sweetness is helping me,
but actually making it a worse dish.
- Yeah.
- The thing is horrible actually.
No stuff it, no.
- We deliberately picked four words that were quite random.
I would love to see what it did.
If you put in eggs, chorizo, pepper, and cheese.
You know, more common ingredients we all have
that normals might need help with.
We did throw some curve balls out there and as a chef,
I'm not sure what I would do with those four ingredients
to make it a better option.
- AI is very smart
but the smartest thing it should have said is,
"Don't bother."
- Those ingredients were never really gonna work.
I would love, and perhaps it's a future exploration
to see what would happen if you opened
your normal fridges at home
and picked out some ingredients to play with.
- I think it's great when your mind's blank
and you've got nothing.
It needs somewhere to start.
An inspiration.
- So over to you guys.
Comment down below.
How do you think that little experiment,
two recipes went, and maybe make suggestions
for how we could use AI in the future?
- This is definitely not the end of AI, is it?
There's a lot more testing to do.
- It's just the beginning.