In an ideal world, Gemini would make me a salad while I write a poem, but currently AI is more about writing poems and letting us do the hard work. That’s not to say that an AI like Gemini isn’t useful in the kitchen. Without going any further, we can use Gemini to create original salad recipes to get out of the routine that no longer exists.
AI in general and Gemini in particular can help us imagine the mobile phones of the future, organize vacations and yes, it can help you too. help create the perfect salad. Or, at least, to get there, because it’s you who will have to get your hands dirty.
Gemini, make me a salad
Gemini is very interested in it but for obvious reasons he still cannot prepare a salad for you as such
It all started with trying to get out of the routine of the umpteenth salad with lettuce, tomato, onion, tuna, oil, a little vinegar and salt which, although very good, eventually gets tired after a million repetitions. With intend to eat more salads (ideally one per day), the truth is that I lacked the creativity to come up with a new recipe or the patience to iterate until I found a harmonious combination of ingredients.
The first response was the one that is so common these days: let the AI do it. I told him like that and even though I thought Gemini was going to return my boldness with a “like an AI model, I don’t have arms or the desire to cook for you”, Google’s AI was very collaborative and eager to help me
Create my perfect salad
And where to start the salad bowl adventure? Well, maybe because we have more on hand, because no one wants to go to the supermarket right away to buy 300 ingredients in a jar. A great option regarding Gemini (and other AI) is that you can attach a photo of the ingredients you have at home and ask them directly for salad ideas that you can create with them.
Of course, if you want to be more specific, it’s always a good idea to narrow the request to get a better answer. For example, if you’re clear on what you like (and don’t like) in a salad, mentioning that when asking Gemini for recipes will ensure that it gives you a result that, Even though it’s original, it’s realistic..
And are you willing to add some ingredients (or you have an empty fridge, in which case don’t worry, I’m not judging you), you can always set boundaries for Gemini so he doesn’t give you ideas that require impossible or very expensive ingredients. For example, you might say that “you can add a handful of additional ingredients as long as they are common.”
It is good starting point to obtain the power of master salad maker that you covet so much, but Gemini can still do much more for you in this area.
More salads please
Give a man 21 original salads to break out of the routine this summer and he will eat for a whole summer. Teach him to create original recipes with Gemini and he will eat them for the rest of his life. Initially, Gemini detailed each recipe, including all the ingredients and the process, which made the result a long text that rarely fits in its entirety in the answer. I then chose to ask Gemini to give me a more compact answer format:
From now on, whenever you give me salad ideas, I want you to mention them in a more compact format that involves no preparation or advice, but rather: Name of the salad: ingredients separated by a comma and the type of dressing .
This makes it easy to take advantage of Gemini’s creativity to, look at, see what the AI came up with, without having to read paragraph after paragraph of redundant text. After all, the quantities are not always large and the process is generally the same (cut and throw in the salad bowl).
If you want a lot of ideas it’s better to ask Gemini to opt for a compact format
The format being perfect, it was time to force the machine and ask Gemini to give me exotic salad ideas that they were not the same as always. And he filled in:
Call me traditional, but stuffing a lentil salad with curry and coconut milk between my chest and back feels more like a stew than a salad. Gemini Strengths for CreativityEven though I was really looking for something original but that would still fit into the traditional definition of a salad. Nothing that can’t be fixed with a query like this:
This is where the great potential of Gemini is to generate interesting revenue that you can either use them as is or at least they will inspire you to do something similar and adapt it to your taste.
Gemini knows the full recipe
The advantage of the compact format is that you can see what Gemini has imagined at any time. ask him to prepare the full recipe for youto have an estimate of the quantities and the process, in case there is a more elaborate step.
give me the full recipe for Roasted Pineapple Mango Lettuce Salad
What cannot be missing in many cookbooks and almost all recipe sites that exist on the Internet is that first of all, a 500-page thesis is included that tells the story of each ingredient. If you miss it when asking Gemini for recipes, you can also ask them to create a recipe story for you
And let’s not forget the toppings.
Cutting vegetables and putting them in a salad bowl is easy, but creating a vinaigrette is more complicated and you have to follow certain rules to create a good vinaigrette and not an oil soup. Gemini can also help you, although in this case it is recommended to ask him which tells you the proportions of each ingredient.
Also can you give me ideas for five different salad dressings? In this case, make me a table where each column is a salad dressing and in the rows are the ingredients and the quantity of each of them. Each ingredient, in a new row.
Finally, planning
With the previous steps, I already had everything I needed to create salads of all styles, although I still needed a weekly calendar with salad present every day Follow my specifications.
Now I want you to make me a weekly schedule to cook different types of salads (75% traditional and 25% exotic) and a weekly shopping list to buy the ingredients to cook all these salads. Estimate the total cost of the purchase and the cost of each salad.
Best of all, you can make life difficult for Gemini so you don’t make things difficult for yourself. For example, you can tell him that Calculate how many ingredients you need to cook all those salads and make yourself a weekly shopping list that includes an approximate cost and calculate the cost of each salad. Around 7 dollars in my case.
This is all best seen in a table, although Gemini tends to organize table data in incomprehensible ways, so you need to be incredibly specific about what goes in the columns and what goes in the rows. It was the fast end which concludes my path of enlightenment ensaladil:
represents the planning in the form of a table which shows the week and in the bottom row it indicates the price of each salad according to the ingredients used and the cost of the ingredients in the weekly purchase
All that remains is to pay attention to Gemini, who will be the most complicated. The best thing about the whole previous process is that you can adapt it for any other idea that you have, whether culinary or other style.
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