What To Cook?
Get a recipe to cook today, based on the ingredients you have at home.
Little to no recent activity. Treat as unmaintained until proven otherwise.
Commit activity more than 5% of tracked projects; popularity more than 6%. How this is calculated.
Commits, last 11 months
| Stars | 71 |
|---|---|
| Latest release | 0.4.2 · 20 Nov 2025 |
| Repo updated | 15 Aug 2026 |
| Licence | AGPL-3.0 |
| Built with | Docker |
Is What To Cook? actively maintained?
Over the last 11 months the project absorbed 7 commits, of which 5 arrived in the most recent quarter — roughly 2 commits a month.
The most recent tagged release, 0.4.2, is about 10 months old.
What To Cook? ranks #10 of 11 tracked recipe management projects. Several better-maintained options exist in the same category — they are listed below.
What What To Cook? actually does
What To Cook? is a self-hosted tool designed to help you decide on a meal based on the ingredients currently available in your kitchen. It falls into the recipe management category, offering a structured way to handle cooking ideas and household food inventory. While exact feature sets are not extensively documented, applications of this type typically match items on hand with stored cooking instructions.
Best fit: This tool is a good fit if you want to minimise food waste by generating meal ideas from leftover pantry and fridge items. It suits homelab enthusiasts who prefer dedicated, single-purpose containers for daily household tasks.
Worth knowing: The project exhibits an at-risk maintenance profile and low repository visibility, meaning updates and bug fixes may be infrequent. It also competes in a crowded category with much more mature, widely adopted alternatives like Mealie or Tandoor.
Deployment notes
As a Docker-based application, you will typically need to configure persistent volumes to prevent recipe and ingredient data from being lost on container restart. You should also place it behind a reverse proxy if you require TLS termination for external access.
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