Sous: Your AI-Powered Sous Chef

🎬 Inspiration

We’ve all been there—staring at a fridge full of ingredients but unsure what to cook. Sous was born from the frustration of decision fatigue in the kitchen. We wanted a smart, seamless way to recognise ingredients, suggest recipes tailored to personal health goals, and provide real-time cooking assistance.

🛠 How We Built It

• Ingredient Recognition: Used Gemini AI for advanced image vision and ingredient identification.
  
• Recipe Recommendations: Integrated Spoonacular to suggest meals based on available ingredients and dietary goals.
  
• User Interface: Designed a beautiful, intuitive UI using TypeScript, ensuring a smooth user experience.
  
• Real-Time Cooking Assistance: AI-driven help for fixing seasoning mistakes, checking food safety, and suggesting ingredient swaps using Bland AI.

🚧 Challenges We Faced

• Optimising Image Recognition: Ensuring accurate identification of a wide range of food items.
  
• Personalised Recommendations: Tailoring recipes effectively to different dietary and health preferences.
  

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z0Fv4IWEY3eSzPv9xpwT1DNZVjyYK-3I/view?usp=sharing Video link

• Seamless User Experience: Balancing functionality with an elegant and user-friendly interface.
  
• Integrating AI Call Chatbot: Using an AI chatbot to give real time assistance to users.
  

🎓 What We Learned

Building Sous reinforced the power of AI in simplifying everyday tasks. We explored computer vision, API integrations, and real-time AI assistance, gaining hands-on experience in deploying AI-driven solutions for practical use cases.

Cooking should be fun, not frustrating. With Sous, you’ll never cook alone.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z0Fv4IWEY3eSzPv9xpwT1DNZVjyYK-3I/view?usp=sharing VIDEO

Built With

• bland-api
• gemini
• python
• spoonacular
• typescript