Use Case

Recipe Adaptation

You're mid-recipe. Hands are covered in flour. You're out of buttermilk, cooking for someone who's gluten-free, and you need to halve the batch. Aether handles all three — by voice, without you touching anything.

Cooking With a Sous Chef Who Knows Your Kitchen

"I don't have buttermilk." Aether responds: "Use 1 cup of milk plus 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. Let it sit for 5 minutes." It knows standard substitutions, but it also knows your kitchen. Mentioned last week that you're out of lemons? "Use white vinegar instead — you have some." The substitute accounts for what you actually have, not just what's theoretically possible.

Everything is voice-first. Your hands are busy. Say "hey Aether" and ask. No screen tapping, no scrolling, no searching. It responds through Kokoro TTS — natural-sounding, clear, and fast enough to keep up with your cooking pace.

Live Conversation · 🎙 Listening
YOU
"I don't have buttermilk."
AETHER
"Use 1 cup of milk plus 1 tablespoon of lemon juice — wait, you mentioned you're out of lemons. Use white vinegar instead. Let it sit for 5 minutes."
YOU
"And halve the recipe — I'm cooking for two."
AETHER
"Done. New quantities pulled up. Use 1 egg instead of 1.5 — round up. Bake time stays the same."
Voice-first · Kokoro TTS · hands-free

Automatic Adjustments

Allergy and restriction awareness. Aether knows your household's dietary needs because you've mentioned them in past conversations. When you ask about a recipe, it automatically flags incompatible ingredients and suggests substitutions. "This recipe has almond flour. Your partner has a tree nut allergy — use oat flour instead."

Scaling. "Halve this recipe" or "I'm cooking for 8 instead of 4." Aether recalculates every measurement — including tricky ones like eggs and baking times. It adjusts for non-linear scaling: "For double batch in a standard oven, increase bake time by 10 minutes and reduce temp by 25°F."

Memory across meals. "Last time you made this, you added extra garlic and said it was perfect." Aether remembers your past modifications to recipes so you don't rediscover the same improvements every time you make a dish.

Household Memory
🥜 Tree nut allergy (partner)
🌾 Gluten-sensitive (self)
🧄 "Always add extra garlic"
🍋 Out of lemons (mentioned Tue)
Substitutions adapt to all 4 facts

Built For

Home cooks who improvise and want a system that remembers what worked. Anyone cooking for dietary restrictions who's tired of Googling substitutions mid-recipe. Parents cooking while managing kids who can't stop to look at a phone. People trying to use up what's in the fridge instead of buying more ingredients. Bakers who need precise scaling and can't eyeball "half an egg."

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