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Plan a week of kosher dinners with ChatGPT (hits and misses)

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ChatGPT's kosher dinner week gave Eric Hal Schwartz a great salmon and risotto, but a too-spicy curry and grainy ziti failed.

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We keep kosher, so no pork or shellfish and never meat with dairy. Plan a week of dinners, some for two people and some for one, so I can shop once. Include a chicken dinner for two and a vegetarian dish with rice and seasonal vegetables, with full recipes.

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Goal: Plan a week of kosher dinners I can shop for in one trip, with recipes I can trust.

Questions to ask me first:
- How many people are eating each night?
- Which nights are meat, dairy or pareve?
- How spicy do you like food, and how experienced is the cook?

Inputs (fill in or confirm):
- Nights and servings: [NIGHT / NUMBER OF PEOPLE]
- Dietary rules: [KOSHER RULES / ALLERGIES]
- Spice level: [MILD / MEDIUM / HOT]
- Time per night: [MINUTES]
- Substitutes we use: [E.G. PLANT-BASED CHEESE OR 'NONE']

Rules:
- Label every dinner meat, dairy or pareve and never mix meat with dairy.
- Give spice amounts conservatively and say how to adjust to taste.
- Give doneness checks (for example, fork-tender potatoes), not just times.
- Warn me when a substitute such as plant-based cheese behaves differently when baked.

Checkpoint: Show me the list of seven dinners with their meat, dairy or pareve label and wait for my OK before writing recipes.

If you get stuck: If a dish can't be made kosher without a big change in taste, say so and offer a different dish.

Verify before you finish: Recheck each recipe for kosher conflicts, spice amounts and cooking times before you finish.

Output: Seven recipes plus one combined shopping list grouped by store section.

Done when: I have a week of kosher dinners and one shopping list.

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Eric Hal Schwartz, a TechRadar writer, set up a full week of dinners with ChatGPT before shopping, some for Schwartz and Schwartz's wife and some for nights alone. Schwartz explained their tastes and that they keep kosher: no pork or shellfish and no mixing meat with dairy. ChatGPT handled the rules and suggested dishes such as roasted herb chicken with glazed carrots and rice-stuffed peppers. The herb-crusted salmon with couscous and asparagus was devoured, chicken shawarma wraps worked on a solo night, and a scratch-made mushroom risotto was the week's biggest success. Two dinners failed. A sweet potato curry called for far too much garam masala and cayenne and undercooked the potatoes, and a dairy-free baked ziti came out grainy, with nutritional yeast in the marinara making it bland and bitter. Schwartz's verdict: use AI as a helper, not the final word.

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What went wrong: Most dinners were a hit, but the sweet potato curry was far too spicy and undercooked, and the dairy-free baked ziti came out grainy and bitter.

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https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/i-used-ai-to-help-with-dinner-recipes-for-a-week-and-it-was-a-success-and-a-disaster

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