A small instrument for curious home cooks.

yoom is a cooking instrument, not a chatbot. Tell it what you have in the kitchen and it will write a recipe. Tell it to swap an ingredient and it will tell you why the swap works, not just that it does. Tell it to rotate a dish toward another cuisine and it will move along a map of flavour rather than guess from a chat history.

Underneath, yoom uses an open ingredient embedding called Epicure — a 300-dimensional map of 1,790 ingredients learned from cookbooks, released under CC BY 4.0 by Kaikaku. yoom adds an editorial layer on top: an opinionated set of operators, a small invitation-only beta, and a tone that takes the home cook seriously.

Built by Jim Sangwine in 2026. Not affiliated with Kaikaku; we just stand on their work.