Basil lives inside Shop by Aisle and sees what you're cooking. Ask him to plan the week, swap an ingredient, or scale a recipe — and when you taste it and something's off, he tells you exactly what to add to fix it.
Great cooks taste as they go and adjust. Basil does that with you: describe how a dish tastes — bland, too salty, too sweet, too rich, just off — and he pinpoints the likely cause and gives you specific, proportioned fixes using what's already in your kitchen. It's like having someone at the stove who's cooked it a hundred times.
Tell him it tastes off and he diagnoses it — acid, salt, umami, sweetness, fat — with exact, taste-as-you-go fixes for the dish in front of you.
"Swap Sunday's breakfast for something sweet." He suggests options and puts your pick right on the menu.
Scale servings, make it gluten-free or dairy-free, or swap an ingredient you're out of — instantly, for the recipe you're viewing.
Turn a recipe or a whole week into an aisle-sorted shopping list in one message — no copying anything by hand.
Ask what side or drink goes with dinner and he'll suggest matches you can add in a tap.
Hand him the occasion and guest count; he designs the menu, prep list, timed schedule and shopping list.
Basil is free and already inside the app — just tap the chat button.
Basil is the free AI sous-chef built into Shop by Aisle. He can plan meals, find and write recipes, build aisle-sorted shopping lists, scale servings, swap ingredients for a diet, and troubleshoot a dish that tastes off — and he can see the screen you're on, so you can just ask about "this recipe".
Yes. Tell him how it tastes — flat, too salty, too sweet, missing something — and he names the likely cause and gives specific fixes with proportions, like adding acid, salt, an umami boost or a pinch of sugar, tied to the recipe you're actually cooking.
No. Basil is free to use inside Shop by Aisle, which is supported by ads and affiliate links rather than a subscription.
Open Shop by Aisle and tap the chat button in the top bar from any screen. Basil already knows what you're viewing or cooking, so you can ask in plain language.