CookWhatAh
Electrolux Food Survey 2014 survey reports that although 33% of respondents are more likely to eat out than to eat at home, 80% of respondents prefers a home-cooked meal. Given that many residing in Singapore prefers a home-cooked meal, what is stopping us from cooking at home? Among others, reasons suggested range from the possibility of leftover ingredients from making a meal causing food wastage to their inexperience in the kitchen.
Other than just being a mere preference, home-cooked meals also provide other benefits. According to an article written by Mount Elizabeth Hospital, in light of healthier options found in the hawker centre in the last few years, home-cooked food still proves to be the healthier option as it is packed with better nutrition and enables better control of fat, sugar and salt.
To help people living in Singapore enjoy more home-cooked food, our team proposes CookWhatAh, an Integrated Cooking Application, that can help users solve many of their problems they find when cooking at home. CookWhatAh targets both the uninitiated and experienced cooks with the following functionalities:
- Identifying ingredients with photos
- Recipe recommendation based on selected ingredients
- Easy to follow instructions and nutrition information
- Additional ingredients recommendation
| Full Name | Student ID | Areas of Responsibility |
|---|---|---|
| Daniel Tan Hoong Xiang | A0074608B | Image-scraping Algorithms, Telegram UI and System Integration |
| Yang Jieshen | A0003901Y | Recipe-scraping Algorithms, Clustering Modelling |
| Onn Wei Cheng | A0092201X | Image Recognition Modelling |
| Cheng Kok Cheong | A0038791W | Ingredient Recommender Modelling |
CookWhatAh rides on a Telegram application as the user interface to implement our system. Please install Telegram in your respective platforms to run the application.
- Please download CookWhatAh_2_LocalIDE.zip from this link
- Unzip and extract files into directory of choice
- Install python dependencies using requirements.txt
- Run app.py and keep it running while you use the telegram bot
- In your telegram app in your smartphone/desktop, please search "CookWhatAh_2" or click https://t.me/CookWhatAh_2_bot
- Some sample images are located here
- You can upload these images to try out our system
Please refer to ProjectReport folder in the repository.