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Restaurant-grade recipes built around the kitchen you actually have — then executed minute by minute, backwards from the moment you want to serve.
Allergen and temperature safety are checked on every recipe, on every plan — safety is never a paid feature.
Tonight's menu
Starred · serves 6 · built for a multi-cooker, oven and gas grill
Every step carries its reasoning — why the sear comes first, why the rest is non-negotiable — with wine and side pairings, plating guidance, and a printable service sheet.
Your timeline · serve at 18:00
Running late on a step? Mark it and the whole plan re-flows around you.
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Your equipment, your table's allergies, the cuisines you lean toward. Recipes only ever use what you own — techniques you can't execute never appear.
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A weeknight 25 minutes or a Saturday centrepiece with two sides. Name the hour you want to serve; the plan is built backwards from it.
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A minute-by-minute timeline runs every pan and oven together, re-flowing when life happens — through to a plated dish at the time you promised.
The biggest lie in cooking apps is that starred-kitchen food takes fifteen minutes. Every Lumina recipe carries a tier label that tells you the truth about time and technique — before you commit to it.
Under 30 minutes
Restaurant-grade execution of an appropriately scoped dish. Sharp seasoning, deliberate plating — and no shortcut apology.
30–60 minutes
Starred-idiom technique, compressed intelligently. The reasoning behind every step, on by default.
60 minutes and up
The technique depth of a starred kitchen — stocks, reductions, rested proteins, considered plating. We never pretend this takes fifteen minutes.
Declare an allergy — from the official UK FSA or US FDA lists, or your own — and no recipe containing it can ever reach your screen. Checked again on every shopping list.
If a request can't be done safely and well — a starred dish in fifteen minutes, a dish that can't avoid your allergen — Lumina says no and proposes what your kitchen can do, instead of quietly cutting a corner.
Free plan or paid, the same safety checks run on every recipe. Allergen and temperature safety will never appear on a pricing page.
Start free with 3 recipes a month. When you're ready for unlimited generation, full dinner orchestration and service sheets, Chef is £12.99/month ($14.99) — and the first 1,000 members lock £9.99/month ($11.99) for life.