Ryz Chef is a recipe generator Jordan built in Replit. Upload a screenshot of your grocery receipt, or photos of your fridge, and AI extracts what you bought, then writes 11 Mediterranean recipes for two from those ingredients, with steps, photos and PDF export. He demoed it in Episode 12 (September 12, 2025). He didn't say how long it took; he "mostly built this just for fun."
Jordan cooks a lot, follows a Mediterranean diet, and gets bored making the same meals from the same groceries every week. He also sees a bigger use: as people get older they pick up dietary restrictions, and AI can help find recipes that work around them.
And so essentially, what the tool is is you can paste your purchases, or you can simply just paste in a copy of your receipt, whether it's from the supermarket, Instacart, Amazon, pretty much anywhere you shop for your groceries, and then some magic will happen.
— Jordan Metzner, Episode 12
Yeah. So I can't recall my original prompt, but I really tried to focus it on a high end professional chef that was cooking Mediterranean meals using, like, olive oil and avoiding French diet, like, kind of high in fat, like butters and things like that.
— Jordan Metzner, Episode 12
While we talked, it produced 11 recipes: three breakfasts, three lunches, three dinners and two desserts. Highlights included a tahini pineapple breakfast bowl and a tahini chicken carrot stir fry, which Jordan said he'd never really make on his own. There was one small glitch: a "Mediterranean bar" ingredient that came from the salad bar line on the receipt.
Fridge photos work, but Jordan's fridge has drawers, so he needed four or five pictures to capture everything. Receipts are easier, especially since his in-store Whole Foods orders get saved to his Amazon account.
On images, AI generation was "a little bit expensive and slow," and models were bad at picturing dishes that don't exist yet. Unsplash had good photos for most ingredients.
Sam liked the idea of pairing it with the calorie tracking he already does in ChatGPT.
In the same episode, Sam showed how he and his daughter made AI product images for a 3D-printed hoodie charm store with Nano Banana. Deciding where to build your own? See Bolt vs Replit.
In Ryz Chef you upload a screenshot of a receipt (Jordan used a Whole Foods order from his Amazon account), AI extracts the ingredients into an editable list, and one click generates 11 recipes: three breakfasts, three lunches, three dinners and two desserts.
Yes, Jordan said it does a pretty good job, but he needed four or five photos to capture everything in his fridge's drawers. A receipt screenshot is easier.
Jordan prompted it as a high-end professional chef cooking healthy Mediterranean meals with olive oil, avoiding butter-heavy French cooking. He suggested naming a favorite chef in the prompt for more creative results.
Jordan tried and switched to Unsplash. AI images were a bit expensive and slow, and the model was not good at picturing dishes that don't exist yet.
