Liffo's AI: how it turns what's in your fridge into a Michelin-level dinner.
The problem everyone knows and no one really solves
It's 7:30pm. You open the fridge: half a courgette, two eggs, a piece of aged cheese you don't even remember the name of, a few sprigs of thyme, and half a lemon that's seen better days. The classic end-of-week scenario, when the grocery run hasn't happened yet but hunger already has.
Liffo's AI solves exactly this moment: just a photo of the ingredients you actually have at home gets you, in a few seconds, a ready-to-cook recipe calibrated to what's in the fridge - not a generic fallback.
Without this, the traditional options are three: improvise with uncertain results, open a delivery app and spend fifteen euros on something that'll arrive lukewarm, or let those ingredients sit until next Thursday, when they end up in the food waste bin.
How Liffo's recipe-generation system works
Take a photo of the ingredients on your counter, or even straight into the open fridge shelves. The computer vision system identifies the individual items in the image: it recognises vegetables even when partly cut, tells cuts of meat apart by colour and shape, spots the main packaged products. This isn't recognition against a closed list: the model is trained to handle real-world variability - the bruised courgette, the stale piece of bread, the opened jar of tomato paste with the rusty lid.
If you'd rather, you can also describe what you have in words - handy when an ingredient isn't visible in the photo or is already cooked. "I've got some cooked chicken, boiled potatoes left over from yesterday, and homemade mayo" is a perfectly valid input: the system interprets natural language and approximate quantities ("a bit of", "enough", "there's barely any left").
Creating a recipe with AI, step by step in the app
Open Liffo AI and write what you want to cook, or take a photo of the ingredients you have available.
The AI generates a new recipe, or you record your own with Recording mode.
Then choose the portions, weigh the ingredients with the built-in scale, and schedule cooking up to 24 hours ahead.
When AI changes the way you cook
There are moments when this system stops being a convenience and becomes the answer to a real problem.
Few ingredients left. You photograph or describe what's in your fridge, and the AI builds a recipe designed specifically for what's actually there - not a last-minute fallback.
Craving something new. No endless searching online: ask for something different from what you usually cook, and the AI proposes a new recipe, still calibrated to your preferences and allergies from the food questionnaire.
An ingredient you don't know how to cook. The AI generates the timing and temperatures tailored to that ingredient, handled by the induction cooking system - you don't need to know how to cook it, Liffo does.
From ingredient list to Michelin-level recipe
Generating a list of ingredients isn't the hard part. The hard part is generating a recipe that Liffo can actually cook with those ingredients, accounting for the timing, temperatures and cooking steps the system is able to execute.
That's the technical point that sets Liffo's AI apart from any generic chatbot you'd ask "what can I cook with courgettes?". A generic language model gives you a recipe that looks plausible on paper, but knows nothing about what it takes to run it on specific hardware, with an induction cooking plan the system controls autonomously.
Liffo's AI, instead, generates the recipe and, at the same time, the program: the sequence of instructions the system will run on its own, with the cooking parameters for each stage. The recipe isn't separate from the execution. They're the same thing.
In practical terms, this means the system calibrates temperature and cooking time based on the generated recipe and the number of servings you select - from 1 to 8 - not on fixed values designed for a standard table.
A system that learns from your habits
From the very first use, Liffo asks you to fill in a short food questionnaire: goal (taste, mindful eating, weight loss, and others), preferences (omnivore, vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian), allergies and intolerances, foods to avoid. Every recipe the AI generates - including the ones built from what's in your fridge - automatically takes this into account.
With continued use, Liffo's self-learning system further refines its suggestions based on your preferences, so the same list of ingredients can produce different suggestions from one person to another.
What's left to do
What Liffo does is close the gap between having ingredients and actually managing to cook them well. That gap that, every evening, costs millions of people a wasted meal, a pointless grocery run, or a delivery order they didn't really want to make.