How I Taught a Model to Recognize My Grandma’s Cooking

My grandma doesn’t use recipes just intuition. One day, I thought: why not teach a model to recognize her dishes?

I clicked pictures of everything she cooked, labeled them manually, and trained a basic image classifier using TensorFlow. The model wasn’t perfect, but it learned to identify dal, sabzi, and aloo gobi with surprising accuracy.

The best moment? When it got a prediction right, she smiled and said, “Even your computer knows my cooking now!”

Tech meets tradition. And honestly, that’s the kind of ML I love.