Free
$0forever
What’s included
- All of Learn: the 72 techniques, the 24 tell ladders, the 17 lessons.
- 2 tokens a week. Each one is a recipe written for you and checked the same.
- Your cards, your passport, your progress.
Learn while you cook
Rikaido doesn’t tell you what to cook. It makes you a cook.
Hand it what’s left in the fridge, or just a craving. It comes back with a checked recipe, and it teaches you the move that recipe turns on.
Free to start. No credit card.
Where to open it
- Web: Open
- iPhone: Open
- AndroidComing soon
How it works
One dinner, three beats.
You say what you feel like. Rikaido writes it, checks it, and shows you the move this dish will teach you.
Hand it what you have
A craving, what’s left in the fridge, or a photo of the open door. The ingredients drop into the wok.
The verdict
Cod, browned butter
- Allergies and dietnothing to flag
- Quantitiesall measured
- Temperaturesinside the band
- The saltoutside the band
The salt ran outside the band. Corrected before it was served.
The harness checks
Allergies, quantities, temperatures, salt. What doesn’t hold is corrected. What can’t be corrected isn’t served.
You cook, you learn
The recipe arrives with the move it turns on, and what “done” looks like. Every move you learn goes into your passport.
Create an account
Free to start. No credit card.
The tell
“Simmer” describes three states of water. Your recipe names one.
Poaching, simmering and blanching read the same water and aim at three different states. That is exactly what “simmer”, on its own, never tells you.
A shiver: the surface trembles, a bubble now and then. A rolling boil is already too much.
The catalogue
72 techniques. Nothing locked.
6 shelves, 24 tell ladders and 17 lessons, all of it open. Search “nappe” and the answer is right there.
- techniques
- 72
- tell ladders
- 24
- lessons
- 17
Dry heat, and the browning it buys you.
- Searing
- Caramelizing
- Blooming spices
- Sweating aromatics
- Sautéing
- Stir-frying
- Roasting
- Grilling
- Toasting nuts
- Browning butter
- Glazing
Going deeper
Your shelfIt starts empty. A technique counts once you’ve opened its card.0 of 13
Nothing browns here. What you control is how hard the liquid moves.
Going deeper
Your shelfIt starts empty. A technique counts once you’ve opened its card.0 of 12
Before any heat: deciding how fast and how evenly a thing will cook.
Your shelfIt starts empty. A technique counts once you’ve opened its card.0 of 13
Structure built cold — and the least forgiving failures in cooking.
- Folding
- Whipping to peaks
- Creaming butter
- Ribbon stage
- Kneading
- Stretch & fold
- Proofing
- Cold proofing
- Lamination
- Blind baking
- Blooming yeast
- Tempering chocolate
- Sifting
Going deeper
Your shelfIt starts empty. A technique counts once you’ve opened its card.0 of 16
The last five minutes. Almost all of it is holding something together.
- Deglazing
- Reducing
- Emulsifying
- Mounting with butter
- Nappe
- Tempering eggs
- Roux
- Starch slurry
- Finishing in the pan
Going deeper
Your shelfIt starts empty. A technique counts once you’ve opened its card.0 of 11
No cooking at all. Salt, smoke and patience move water instead.
Going deeper
Your shelfIt starts empty. A technique counts once you’ve opened its card.0 of 7
Learning is free on every plan.
What gets checked
A recipe that breaks an allergy is never served. Not even corrected.
Quantities, temperatures, leavening and salt are checked first. Anything that doesn’t hold up is fixed, or it isn’t served.
See what the harness catches in a recipe from Claude or ChatGPT →« The loud sputtering of boiling water goes quiet, the foam collapses, and brown flecks appear on the bottom with a smell of hazelnuts. »
Browning butter · the card, exactly as it is in the app
Your allergies and your diet come first
A recipe that breaks them is never served, fixed or not.
The tell comes from the recipe
A step’s “until” clause is kept word for word. We never add a number to it to make it look tidy.
No approximate drawings
A technique whose tell has no honest drawing gets none. An approximate drawing reads as a measurement.
Who’s behind it
I’m Vincent. I built Rikaido for myself first.
I’ve been building software for a living for eight years now, and I’ve been cooking since I was a kid. At ten I could bread a cutlet à l’anglaise: flour, egg, crumbs. I thought it was the best trick in the world. Since then I’ve spent hours on cooking videos. A lot of hours. Too many, some would say.
What I like making: pizza, fresh pasta, my own broth, my own soups. Things that take time and don’t forgive much.
What I’m done doing: wondering what to make for dinner. Every day. Improvising is fine when you’re allowed to get it wrong. But it’s six o’clock, there are people to feed, and you get one try. Improvising runs out fast.
Rikaido is my answer. An app for people who want to learn to cook without reading books or spending their evenings on videos. It teaches you while you cook, not before. Ask it for any recipe and it hands it over, checked. You run out of ideas. It doesn’t.
I’m on my own with this. No team, no office. If something’s off, I’m the one reading your email.
Vincent GagnonFounder of Rikaido, Saguenay, QuebecWrite to meOn LinkedIn
They tried it · on the App Store
Tried it once. Made it again.
What cooks write on Rikaido’s App Store page, word for word, in the language they wrote it in.
- App Store · version 1.6.0
Awesome app
Amazing app to learn cooking and understand what’s going on behind every steps. Awesome to try new bold recipes or to get suggested what to cook with whatever’s left in your fridge.
- App Store · version 1.4.0
Highly recommend
I absolutely love this app! It has completely changed the way I cook and makes meal planning so much easier. The recipes are delicious, easy to follow, and I love that the app helps guide you through the cooking process step by step. …
The rest on the App Store - App Store · version 1.4.0
Convenient!
This app is the best! It saves both time and energy needed to have good food at home. Say goodbye to takeout and start cooking with Rikaido!
- App Store · version 1.4.0
Génial!
An app that helps you become a real cook—awesome!
- App Store · version 1.4.0
Facile à naviguer
Très bien fait c’est facile de s’amuser en apprenant. Il y a plusieurs choses Que je ne connaissais pas
- App Store · version 1.4.0
Vraiment pratique
Super application j’adore vrmt unique !!!
- App Store · version 1.4.0
Wow
Vraiment une app incroyable! 🥹 Étant moi-même pas particulièrement bonne en cuisine, ça me guide vraiment super bien étape par étape, et ça rend la cuisine tellement plus simple et agréable. Mon chum, qui est déjà très bon en cuisine, l’adore aussi parce que ça lui donne plein d’idées de repas différents pour sortir de la routine. …
The rest on the App Store
Pricing
Learning is free. Cooking without a limit is Rikaido Pro.
The only paid thing in Rikaido. First, here is what isn’t.
Rikaido Pro
$7.99a month
Less than one delivered dinner. And you keep the technique.
Or by the year, the best value, at the price your store shows.
What’s included
- Unlimited tokens, checked the same.
- Unlimited refining.
- Chef Max in your pocket: his answers, his recipes.Chef Max is the porcelain chef who answers any cooking question. Ask him why this step, or what to do when the sauce splits, and he comes back with a checked recipe and the technique it teaches. It’s the harness, in a conversation.
- A photo for every dish you publish.
- The harness inside Claude and ChatGPT.
You subscribe in the app, once you’ve cooked on the free plan. Cancel any time.
Launch offer: half price for the first 100. See the offer
The price shown is your store’s, in your currency. No credit card to start.
The launch offer
Half price on Rikaido Pro, for the first 100.
One code per cook, taken on the offer page once your account exists: three months at half price by the month, or the first year at half price by the year. Open it in the App Store and Apple does the rest.
The shop
We made some clothes
Printed to order, shipped from North America, paid with Shop Pay or your card. The drawings are the ones from the app.
Visit the shop
Where to open it
Five doors. The same harness behind every one.
Web
Open
Scan the code, then add it to your home screen.
Claude
Open
https://mcp.rikaido.app/mcp ChatGPT
Open in developer mode
https://mcp.rikaido.app/mcp
Is it really free?
Yes. Everything that teaches is open forever: the 72 techniques, the tell ladders, the lessons, your progress. Every week you get 2 tokens, and a token is one recipe written and checked for you. Rikaido Pro removes the limit, for $7.99 a month.
What does a “checked” recipe mean?
Before it is served, every recipe goes through the harness: your allergies and your diet, the quantities, the temperatures, the salt. What doesn’t hold is corrected. What can’t be corrected is not served.
What about my allergies?
You declare them once, in your profile. They come first in every check, and a recipe that breaks one is never served, even corrected.
Where does it work?
On iPhone, from the App Store. On the web, at rikaido.app, with nothing to install. And inside Claude or ChatGPT, through the connector. Every door, with its real state, is higher up the page.
In French or in English?
Both. The app, the cards, the lessons and the recipes exist in both languages, and you switch whenever you like.
Can I cancel any time?
Yes. The subscription cancels any time, wherever you took it, and your account stays, on the free plan, with everything you learned.
What about my data?
Your recipes and your progress are yours. Nothing is sold, and nothing is used to follow you from one app to another. The privacy policy says the rest.
Who makes Rikaido?
Rikaido is made in Quebec. It is written in French first, and every email gets read: support@rikaido.app.
Get started
Your next dinner can teach you something.
- Free to start
- No credit card
- The catalogue, the lessons and the ladders are open on every plan
One dinner at a time.