How would you design an app to help someone become a better cook?

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Great Question! So, before I begin I'd like to understand if this app for an
aspiring cook in the hospitality industry or a novice who's trying to live on
their own. And is there any age group we're targeting?

Assuming this is for adults who are living on their own and want to learn to
cook better, resulting in better tasting food in lesser time.

Now, what's the big problem these adults are facing - They're craving for tasty
yet healthy food, in minimal time as most of them are either students or
professionals in the age group of 20-30. Cooking generally takes resource prep
time of 50%, and 50% of final execution of the recipe. Reels these days shows a
lot of ideas on how to cook better, but when they actually end up cooking it, it
takes at least 30 mins and by that time they're already hungry.

So, what would I do to address these issues? 1. App which knows what all ready
resources these users have in their fridge based on which it gives suggestions
on the most healthy and tasty recipes that could be made 2. Recipes can be
sorted by time to prepare, with calorie count and # of steps to be covered to
lose them 3. On click, the app gives step by step voice commands on cooking
highlighting the qty of resources needed, approx time needed 4. Recommend
recipes from the leftovers to be consumed next morning to have optimum usage of
the food items

As a PM I'd add metrics dashboard for the user to track # of dishes marked as
tasty on a scale of 5 (4 and above), # of successful reuse of food items, %
waste reduction of items in fridge, and a graph to show progress of this novice
cook to keep them motivated.

I'd prioritise use case 1, 3 first because of the core functionality it brings
in, and slowly add 2 and 4 as add on features.

How would you design an app to help someone become a better cook?

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