[jona-f]

Obviously the llm has no idea how the recipe will taste. You will have to cook it many times yourself to really understand a dish. A good cookbook sets you up right away with a tasty start, but doesn't give you experience. A good cook has so much experience that they can actually out-of-domain predict a recipe from the taste, but an llm can't do that, cause it fundamentally has no idea how things taste to humans. They are a great starting point for recipes though and I'd argue they don't give you the average of all recipes, cause you can specify quite detailed which "authentic" version you want and the models generally to a decent job.

[simulator5g]

Besides that, taste is only a small part of the experience of eating something. You can't use an algorithm to cook good food if it has no reference to smell, texture, appearance, psychology, nutrition, culture, etc. You don't even really decide what to eat unless you put effort into the decision, your gut mostly drives you around via the vagus nerve. So a good recipe needs to appeal to your gut perhaps more than it appeals to you.