When I tell people I can cook, it doesn’t mean I do.
Sure, if I absolutely must enter the kitchen, my food will be edible. It may not win any Michelin stars, but neither will it be on Singapore Food Agency’s blacklist. It will be sustenance even if not satisfaction.
The whole shebang of preparing a meal from scratch, from ideation to plating, invariably reminds me of one of life’s harsh truths: Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should.
So when I was invited to a festive cook-off with OpenAI Singapore in early December that promised to show how ChatGPT could help with planning and cooking for the holidays by getting attendees to participate in a mock culinary contest, I was, obviously, sceptical.
