Make daily cooking more fun and free. A new cooking experience starting with Gemini

Hello! This is the official note editorial department for Google's AI, "Gemini."

Finding it hard to think of daily menus... no time to go shopping... always ending up with the same dishes... Are you struggling with cooking problems like these?

You might have the image that AI is only for work, but it can actually support your daily life as well.

Following our previous Travel Edition this time we will introduce how Gemini can be useful for the familiar theme of "Cooking." We will clearly introduce Gemini utilization techniques and prompts that are active in every cooking scene, from daily shopping and menu creation to support during cooking and sharing fun meals.

[Shopping & Menu Edition] Gemini is my family's reliable food planner

OK with what's in the fridge! Propose a week's worth of menus with a single photo
How to use leftovers in the fridge or sale flyers for cooking is a source of worry when thinking about daily menus. With Gemini, you don't have to worry anymore.

Just take a picture of the contents of your fridge or sale flyers and show it to Gemini.
Gemini recognizes the images and proposes delicious, one-week menus that use up ingredients without waste.

It will create a menu while listing the ingredients in the fridge and the ingredients to buy additionally.

In this way, just by telling it your family's allergy information, likes and dislikes, and your mood for the day (e.g., "I want Japanese food today"), your own personalized menu will be completed immediately.

Create a "My Home Chef Gem" to automate menu creation and shopping list creation!
It can feel a bit troublesome to enter the same information every time, right? In such cases, let's create your own AI assistant, a "Custom Gem."

Once you have it memorize your family's preferences, allergies, frequently used seasonings, and health consciousness (low salt, high protein, etc.), Gemini will become your own "home chef."

After creating the Custom Gem, just say "Please make this week's menu!" and a personalized menu and shopping list will be generated instantly.

The created shopping list can be registered in Google Tasks and reminders can be set by saying "Register it in @Google Tasks for 10 AM tomorrow."

Since you will receive a notification at the time you go shopping, you can shop smartly while looking at your smartphone.

You can also save it as a memo in Google Keep, not just Google Tasks.

Also, besides Custom Gems, if you use the "Saved Info" feature in the settings menu, for example, by registering "I am a vegetarian," the recipes Gemini proposes will always be for vegetarians.

Please try to personalize Gemini more and more in a way that suits you.

[Recipe Discovery & Nutrition Management] Expand your healthy eating habits with Gemini

Instantly check out popular recipes from YouTube videos!
When you wonder, "How do I make this dish?", recipe videos are a great reference. With Gemini's YouTube integration, you can quickly find the recipe videos you're interested in and have their content summarized in text.

Since it lists the cooking steps and ingredients from the YouTube video, you can start cooking smoothly without the hassle of re-watching the video multiple times.

The YouTube video is also introduced within the response, so you can watch the video directly in the Gemini chat when you want to see detailed instructions.

Just take a photo! Easily manage calories and nutrition for your daily meals
It's hard to keep track of the calories and nutritional balance of your daily meals for health management or dieting, but Gemini is here to support you.

Just by showing Gemini a photo of your meal—whether it's dining out or home-cooked—it will calculate the approximate calories and nutrients (protein, fat, carbohydrates, etc.).

It predicts the ingredients from the photo and tells you the calories and PFC balance. It's a great feature that you can easily do just by taking a photo with your smartphone.

When planning your menu, you can also tell it your target calories, and it will create a menu that takes those calories into account.

Using Gemini makes it easy to record and analyze your eating habits, making it a powerful supporter for your health management.

[Cooking Support] Gemini is your best partner in the kitchen

Instantly solve "How do I do this again?" while cooking with your voice!
Even if both your hands are full while cooking, you can ask questions hands-free using the Gemini app's voice input feature or Gemini Live.

Also, with the Gemini Live feature, you can interact like a back-and-forth conversation, so you can resolve questions while cooking without stress.

From basic cooking questions like "What's the trick to caramelizing onions?" or "How do I remove scum?" to professional techniques, you can solve them on the spot.

You can enjoy not only cooking-related help but also chatting with the AI while you cook.

Voice input is recommended because your hands might be dirty or full while cooking.

Change portions and number of people in an instant! Automatic recipe adjustment
Gemini is also useful in situations like "The recipe is for 4 people, but I want to make it for 5 today" or "I want to make a double batch of this ingredient for meal prep."

It will provide a recipe that changes the amount for 2 people to 5 people.

It can also suggest vegetarian recipes set in your "Saved info".

It automatically calculates ingredient weights and seasoning ratios, saving you the trouble of measuring and making it harder to fail.

[Sharing & Recording] Share menus with your family to smooth out communication

Register menus in Google Calendar and share them with your family
The weekly menu created with Gemini can be automatically registered in Google Calendar and shared with your family.

It will ask for confirmation before creating the event, so check the details.

By instructing it to "Create it," you can register the schedule including the menu in Google Calendar.

Just by doing this, not only will you eliminate the question "What's for dinner tonight?", but since your family knows the menu, it becomes easier to plan shopping, and communication becomes smoother.

Furthermore, it is possible to have new menus suggested based on past menu history.

It will check past recipes in Google Calendar and create a menu plan that avoids overlapping recipes.

By getting support from Gemini, even the difficult daily task of menu planning becomes easy to do.

Create your own personal database of favorite recipes with NotebookLM
Have you ever found a favorite recipe site or cooking video, only to struggle later to find it again?

In such cases, Google's AI notebook "NotebookLM" is convenient.

Just keep adding the URLs of recipe websites you want to make or links to YouTube videos you found helpful to NotebookLM, and your own original recipe book will be complete.

NotebookLM specializes in utilizing information uploaded as "sources" (materials).
By saving your favorite recipes or recipes you want to try, you can search and find them at any time.

It will search through your recipe collection and pull up recipes that use pork.

Since NotebookLM allows you to add not only websites and YouTube videos but also text, saving your original recipes together makes it easy to search and check quantities and procedures.

If you ask NotebookLM, it will immediately find the recipe you are looking for from the information you have saved. Furthermore, it lists the ingredients and instructions, so you can proceed with cooking smoothly.

We introduce how to use NotebookLM in detail in this article, so please be sure to check it out.

Summary: The daily cooking experience and its possibilities expanded by Gemini

From planning your shopping and creating daily menus to providing support while cooking, Gemini is a reliable partner that stays by your side and helps solve all your cooking-related concerns.

It will not only serve as a simple time-saving tool, but also encourage you to try new recipes and turn tedious tasks into fun times, making your eating habits themselves richer and more creative.

Why not take this opportunity to use Gemini and start your own "new cooking experience"?

The usage methods introduced here can be used by anyone for free on the Gemini app.

Please try out various ways of using it according to your own goals.