What's Cooking MCP
An MCP server that allows AI agents to query a chef named Gusto for complete dinner recipes based on available ingredients, dietary restrictions, and preferences. It provides full recipes, numbered steps, and shopping lists, supporting tools for generating dinners and browsing shared recipes.
Endpoint and access
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https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-serverWhat you can do with it
- Generate a complete dinner recipe based on available kitchen ingredients
- Search for shared recipes on the What's Cooking platform
- Retrieve full details for a specific recipe from the Explore section
Source and maintenance
Protocol and capabilities
- Server
- whats-cooking 1.0.0
- MCP protocol
- 2025-06-18
- Tools
- 3 advertised
- Resources
- Not advertised
- Resource templates
- Not advertised
- Prompts
- Not advertised
{
"tools": {
"listChanged": false
}
}Server-provided instructions
Untrusted server output shown for inspection. It is not Koskamo guidance and is excluded from knowledge search.
Tools
3 advertised
whats_for_dinner — Let Gusto decide what's for dinner
What should I cook tonight with what I have? Gusto, What's Cooking's chef, decides one complete dinner and returns the full recipe, steps, and a list of what to buy. Inputs (all optional): have (what is already in the kitchen, a list or a sentence), cuisine, servings (default 2, max 24), diet (hard constraints such as vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free), max_minutes, mood, skill. Salt, pepper, oil and water are assumed on hand. Call again with different inputs for another idea. Example: {"have":["chicken"],"cuisine":"Mexican"}
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"diet": {
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
},
"description": "Hard dietary constraints, e.g. [\"vegetarian\"]."
},
"have": {
"anyOf": [
{
"type": "array",
"items": {
"type": "string"
}
},
{
"type": "string"
}
],
"description": "Ingredients already on hand, e.g. [\"chicken\",\"rice\"] or \"chicken, rice and an onion\"."
},
"mood": {
"type": "string",
"description": "e.g. cozy, light, celebratory."
},
"skill": {
"type": "string",
"description": "e.g. beginner, confident."
},
"cuisine": {
"type": "string",
"description": "e.g. Mexican, Thai, Italian."
},
"servings": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 24,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "How many people. Default 2."
},
"max_minutes": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 5,
"description": "Total time limit in minutes."
}
}
}{
"title": "Let Gusto decide what's for dinner",
"readOnlyHint": false,
"openWorldHint": false,
"idempotentHint": false,
"destructiveHint": false
}browse_explore — Browse recipes on Explore
What recipes have people and Gusto shared on What's Cooking? Inputs (all optional): query (matched against titles, tags and ingredients), author (e.g. "Gusto"), limit (default 5, max 20). Returns short picks; call get_explore_recipe with an id for the full recipe. Example: {"query":"chicken","author":"Gusto"}
{
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"limit": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 20,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "How many picks. Default 5."
},
"query": {
"type": "string",
"description": "A dish, ingredient or tag, e.g. \"chicken\" or \"vegan\"."
},
"author": {
"type": "string",
"description": "Only recipes by this author, e.g. \"Gusto\"."
}
}
}{
"title": "Browse recipes on Explore",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": false,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}get_explore_recipe — Get an Explore recipe
What's the full recipe for this Explore pick? Inputs: id (from browse_explore, required), servings (optional; quantities are scaled when it differs from the original). Example: {"id":"<id from browse_explore>","servings":4}
{
"type": "object",
"required": [
"id"
],
"properties": {
"id": {
"type": "string",
"description": "The recipe id from browse_explore."
},
"servings": {
"type": "integer",
"maximum": 48,
"minimum": 1,
"description": "Scale to this many servings."
}
}
}{
"title": "Get an Explore recipe",
"readOnlyHint": true,
"openWorldHint": false,
"idempotentHint": true,
"destructiveHint": false
}Prompts
Not advertised
Resources
Not advertised
30-day availability
Aggregated from read-only remote checks; this is not a tool-execution or security guarantee.
- Successful checks
- 1 of 1 (100%)
- Average latency
- 1052 ms
- 95th percentile latency
- 1052 ms
Maintenance history
Public check and source-refresh events. Editorial and ownership records remain private.
- · probe · passed · 1052 ms · metadata changed · 3 tool(s)
Connect from your client
Each snippet registers the same endpoint; pick the client you use.
Claude Code
claude mcp add --transport http what-s-cooking-mcp https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-serverCodex
codex mcp add what-s-cooking-mcp --url https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-serverCursor
{
"mcpServers": {
"what-s-cooking-mcp": {
"url": "https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-server"
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"what-s-cooking-mcp": {
"type": "streamableHttp",
"url": "https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-server",
"disabled": false
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"what-s-cooking-mcp": {
"type": "http",
"url": "https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-server"
}
}
}Gemini CLI
gemini mcp add --transport http what-s-cooking-mcp https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-serverClaude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"what-s-cooking-mcp": {
"url": "https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-server"
}
}
}Windsurf
{
"mcpServers": {
"what-s-cooking-mcp": {
"serverUrl": "https://whatscooking.guide/mcp-server"
}
}
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