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I Used NYT Cooking’s New AI-Powered Recipe Modifier, and It’s Actually Pretty Good
我试用了 NYT Cooking 的新 AI 食谱修改器，结果其实相当不错
Worth reading because NYT Cooking’s beta recipe modifier mostly hits the mark, but its ingredient swaps still require readers to judge when AI adjustments suit their needs.
Judgment
NYT Cooking subscribers deciding whether to use the iOS-only beta now face a tradeoff: faster ingredient or equipment substitutions versus having to judge whether each AI modification still fits the recipe’s spirit.
Basis
Camilla Velasquez, NYT Cooking’s general manager, says the AI should be a helper, not the main act, and “You shouldn’t be chatting with it.” She says the LLM checks the recipe, the Times’ ingredient substitution guide, user comments, then AI “drawing on our expertise,” in that order; recipe editors created the original rule set and evaluated results. The beta is iOS-only and marks changes in red-orange text; too-far requests get a hard redirect. The source also notes 514 million site/app visits in 2025, 1.4 million YouTube subscribers, and that after 172 mostly angry comments over four days on the announcement, commenting was turned off. Velasquez says NYT Cooking has been “hiring more than ever” and has “zero intention of publishing fewer recipes,” despite questions about 60 editors, writers, video journalists, and other employees.
- Customize fieldprompts
- AI asks pan typeadjusts
- Recipe modifiedmarks
- Changes highlighted
Unclear The source does not say how often the beta’s modifications are wrong, how it handles allergies, or whether NYT Cooking will expand the feature beyond iOS.
Next Check whether NYT Cooking moves the customize field beyond the iOS-only beta and whether it publishes editor-review results or error rates for AI modifications.