Chef

Overview

Chef is a Model Context Protocol server that brings a head chef's verified answers into your AI workflow. It provides tools to scale recipes, fix cooking faults, suggest ingredient swaps, calculate yields, and estimate costs. Any MCP-compatible AI assistant can call Chef's tools directly, letting the model decide when to apply culinary expertise during conversations or agent runs.

Chef runs locally via the npm package kitchen-pass-mcp, which communicates over stdio on your machine. Installation uses npx -y kitchen-pass-mcp and requires the KITCHEN_PASS_NETWORK environment variable. The current release is v0.1.0, and no authentication is needed.

Chef lives in the Development category on mcp.site and works with all MCP clients including Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Windsurf, and Zed. If you maintain Chef, claim this listing to verify ownership, earn the Verified badge, and keep your details current.

Installation

// claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "chef": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "kitchen-pass-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "KITCHEN_PASS_NETWORK": "<kitchen-pass-network>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Requires KITCHEN_PASS_NETWORK