Cookthink Launches (a thousand paunches)

Six years ago I had a thought. What if you came home from work (or school, or combat, or whatever) and wanted to cook yourself a hearty meal, but when you looked in the cupboard the ingredients you saw just didn’t make any sense? Wouldn’t it be great if there was a service where you dropped in your ingredients and out popped some recipe ideas? The short answer is - yes, it would be great.

Google Recipes eventually came out, which was adequate, but not really what I was looking for - it was a bit unfriendly, plus there was no sense that the people behind it cared about food at all. Fast forward to earlier this year, when I met Brys Stephens at a dinner party given by Gordon Peters in Washington DC. Brys told me about his startup project Cookthink, and it turned out that he and his partners had the same idea - the difference between us being that they’d actually done something with it.

They’ve been blogging for a while (always interesting), but Cookthink Beta launched two weeks ago and it’s great, just like I thought it would be. The only thing I thought they should add would be more of a community element - you know, sharing recipes between members - CookTube, if you will. I’m pretty sure that they’ll get around to it sooner or later, but in the interests of practicing what I preach, I’m going to start posting recipes on this blog.

Although not today.