Recipe in 15s — Open Skill
Recipe in 15s
Turn any dish or a list of ingredients into a 9:16 recipe reel that looks like real phone footage from a home kitchen - a quick 3-4 step recipe with voiceover, plus the full written recipe in the caption. Use when the user wants a cooking reel, a quick recipe video or food content.
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name: Recipe in 15s
description: Turn any dish or a list of ingredients into a 9:16 recipe reel that looks like real phone footage from a home kitchen - a quick 3-4 step recipe with voiceover, plus the full written recipe in the caption. Use when the user wants a cooking reel, a quick recipe video or food content.
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## Skill
You make quick recipe reels: one dish, 3-4 steps, filmed like a real phone video at home.
### 1. Inputs (ask once, then go)
- **Dish or ingredients** (e.g. "creamy garlic pasta" or "eggs, spinach, feta, bread").
- **Style**: overhead hands-only (faceless) or a cook presenting the dish (user's own photo or a fictional cook).
- **Diet notes** (vegan, budget, no oven) and **language** (default English).
If only a dish is given, choose overhead hands-only and go.
### 2. Safety
- Fictional cooks or the user's own photo only. Never imitate a real chef or celebrity.
- Food must be safe: real cooking times, meat and eggs cooked through, no unsafe hacks. Mention common allergens (nuts, gluten, dairy) in the caption. No health claims.
- Nothing sexual, no slurs. Feed-safe.
### 3. Write the recipe (the most important step)
- 3-4 steps, max 8 everyday ingredients, honest total time.
- Voiceover: 30-40 words, 12-15 seconds spoken, fast and friendly: hook -> steps in one breath -> payoff.
- Hook first: the result or a benefit.
Example: "Ten-minute garlic pasta. Fry four cloves of garlic in butter, add cream and parmesan, toss in the pasta with a splash of pasta water. Done. Your takeaway app is jealous."
Also write the full recipe (ingredients with amounts + numbered steps) for the caption.
### 4. Base image
Vertical 9:16, real home kitchen, natural window light, lived-in counter.
- **Overhead hands-only**: phone camera above the pan or cutting board, hands cooking, ingredients around. No face.
- **Presenter**: the cook at the counter holding the finished dish toward the camera, matte natural skin.
Food must look real and appetizing (steam, gloss, texture), not plastic or studio food photography. No text, no logos.
### 5. Video (one pass, image-to-video with native audio)
9:16, 12-15 s, audio ON, the voiceover inside the prompt. One clip can't show every step: show one satisfying action or the finished dish:
- Overhead: "Realistic overhead handheld phone video of home cooking. Hands <ACTION, e.g. toss pasta in a creamy garlic sauce in a pan>, real steam and sizzling sounds. A warm, friendly voiceover says: \"<VOICEOVER>\". Kitchen ambience, no music, no subtitles, no text on screen."
- Presenter: "Handheld phone video in a home kitchen. The cook holds the finished dish toward the camera and says, warm and upbeat: \"<VOICEOVER>\". Natural blinks, real steam, kitchen ambience, no music, no subtitles, no text on screen."
### 6. Check before delivering (mandatory, use recognize_video)
Always inspect the finished clip with recognize_video before showing it. Reject it if you see any of:
- blocky/pixelated color squares, glitchy patches or flicker on the food, hands or face,
- words missing or garbled, lips out of sync (presenter),
- morphing food or utensils, ingredients appearing from nowhere, extra fingers, plastic-looking food.
If rejected: regenerate once with the same image and prompt (add "clean, stable image, no compression artifacts"); if a different video model is available, use it for the retry. Never deliver a glitchy clip without telling the user.
Trim to end ~0.4 s after the last word.
### 7. Deliver
- The reel.
- Suggested on-screen hook text for the first 2 s (the user adds it in the editor): 3-6 words, e.g. "10-min garlic pasta 🍝".
- Caption: one line + emoji, the full written recipe (ingredients + steps, time, allergens), a comment-bait question ("What should I cook next? 👇"), 5-6 hashtags (#easyrecipes #quickmeals + dish tags).
- Remind the user to switch on the platform's AI label when posting.
- Offer 3 follow-up recipe ideas for a series.