About

Bone Applé Tea makes up recipe names that sound like they came straight off a food blogger's Instagram, circa 2021. The name is the internet's favorite way to misspell bon appétit.

How it works

Hit the button and a name comes together from hand-picked lists of dishes, trends and blogger habits, starting with the 2023 originals and adding everything the internet has done to food since. Tap a word to keep it for the next roll. Now and then a name arrives with a real misspelling. Save the ones you love to your cookbook, or share the link: every name has its own address and comes back exactly the same.

Plate it

Any name can be plated: a photo of the dish, shot like a 2021 magazine spread and taken completely literally, plus the intro you'd scroll past to get to the recipe. Both come from small AI models, the smallest that still get the joke. Each name is plated once and kept, so everyone who opens it sees the same plate. The kitchen plates up to 500 names a day, 25 per visitor, and when it's out, it's out until midnight UTC.

The fine print

No ads, no accounts, no data sold. Visits are counted with Vercel Web Analytics, which sets no cookies. Your cookbook lives in your own browser. The daily limit counts plates per network address, kept only as a scrambled code that changes every day and is deleted after two.

Credits

Designed by Riley Sheehan in Austin, TX. Card emoji by Twemoji (CC-BY 4.0). Photography style lovingly borrowed from the food magazines of 2020 to 2022. Not affiliated with any of them, obviously.