As a digital designer who lives in the kitchen, I use cooking apps at an appalling rate: almost never. Could there, out there, be an app that truly helps cooks in the kitchen? No, I mean really, not just a glorified portable electronic cookbook or a timer with a sexy UI, but a real-life valuable tool.

By now you’ve probably heard of IBM’s Watson, a human-thinking supercomputer that can parse big data like a boss. Yes, the same one that won Jeopardy! four years ago. IBM has taken the same software and applied it to cooking to develop a beta app with Bon Appétit which was unveiled earlier this month. With a little input from the human cook (say you’re looking