The New York Times Cooking AI assistant has been put to the test in the kitchen, where it proved useful but not fully reliable on its own. The tool functions more like a sous chef than a head chef, offering helpful guidance while still requiring the cook to verify details like ingredient amounts and cooking times. The experience highlights a common pattern with AI tools in practical, hands-on settings: they assist but don't replace human judgment.
As with every AI tool I’ve used in the kitchen, the NYT Cooking AI assistant works well as a sous chef, but it’s not the head chef — I still felt the need to double-check amounts and cooking times and ...
