Ptitchef MCP server

mcp-ptitchef

Ptitchef is a French cooking site where home cooks publish their recipes. Each one gives its ingredients, its steps, often photographed one by one, its preparation and cooking times, its cost, its nutrition figures and the ratings its readers left. The site files its recipes under a tree of ingredient families, and publishes many of them in several languages.

This server connects a chat client to that site. You can walk the tree of categories, search the recipes by dish or by ingredient, browse a category or one of the site's standing lists, ask what can be made from what is in the fridge, read one recipe with its ingredients rescaled to the number of people at your table, and find the other languages a recipe was published in. It needs no API key and no account.

Version française

Install

One-click install

Claude Code

claude mcp add ptitchef -- npx -y mcp-ptitchef

Claude Desktop, Cursor, and any client using the standard config format

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ptitchef": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "mcp-ptitchef"]
    }
  }
}

Node 24 or later is required, and no environment variable has to be set.

With Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "ptitchef": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": ["run", "-i", "--rm", "ghcr.io/smeet666/mcp-ptitchef:1.0.1"]
    }
  }
}

-i keeps stdin open, which is where the protocol travels, and -t is left out because a TTY rewrites the stream. The container needs outbound HTTPS to www.ptitchef.com, and nothing else: no volume, no port, no credential.

Bundle, without npm

Download mcp-ptitchef-1.0.1.mcpb from the latest release and open it. A client that supports MCP bundles installs it on its own, with no npm and no configuration file to edit. The bundle carries its dependencies, so nothing is fetched at install time.

What you can ask

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.