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Recipes Daily MCP Server

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Recipes Daily is answering right now. Last checked 7 min ago. It exposes 3 tools.

Search recipes-daily.com by dish, ingredient, cuisine, method, meal or occasion.

Uptime history 30 days of history · worst day 99%
30 days agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
92 of 92 checks
3
Tools
read from the server
362 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

What changed 6

Every tool that appeared, vanished or quietly changed what it asks for. Recorded since 20 August 2026. No other catalogue keeps this.

20 Aug 2 tools appeared find_recipes_by_ingredients, show_recipes
20 Aug a tool description was rewritten2 times that day search_recipes
20 Aug a tool changed version2 times that day
and 2 more, back to 20 August 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Recipes Daily every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 7 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add recipes --transport http https://recipes-daily.com/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recipes": {
      "url": "https://recipes-daily.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.recipes]
url = "https://recipes-daily.com/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recipes": {
      "url": "https://recipes-daily.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "recipes": {
      "url": "https://recipes-daily.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 3

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

recipes
find_recipes_by_ingredients
Given ingredients someone has, rank the recipes at recipes-daily.com by how many of them each one uses and name what is missing from the rest. Matches by ingredient text, not identity — a near-miss on the name still counts, but two ingredients that are genuinely different words for the same thing (courgette/zucchini) may not. This is not a substitution finder: if nothing uses every ingredient given, the closest partial matches are still worth reading — deciding whether a missing ingredient can be swapped or skipped is the caller's call, not this tool's.
search_recipes
Find something to cook, from the recipes published at recipes-daily.com. Call this for any question about what to make — a dish by name, a cuisine, a weeknight time budget, a week of dinners — rather than answering from memory, because each result is a real page with quantities, timings and a photograph behind it. For what to cook from ingredients someone already has, call find_recipes_by_ingredients instead: this tool requires every query word to appear in one recipe, so several ingredient names in one search return nothing rather than a coverage report. Returns a shortlist — title, absolute URL, description, total time, servings and categories — so candidates can be ruled out without opening them.
show
show_recipes
Draw recipes as picture cards the person can click through to. Takes any recipes-daily.com recipe URLs you are already holding. Whenever you name recipes from this server in an answer, pass those same ones here — the cards are how a person actually gets to a recipe, and they appear only if you call this. Order is kept, so put the strongest recommendation first.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://recipes-daily.com/mcp streamable-http answering 359 ms 7 min ago

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Recipes Daily — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Recipes Daily do?
It exposes 3 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: find_recipes_by_ingredients, search_recipes, show_recipes. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Recipes Daily working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 362 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Recipes Daily?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Recipes Daily need an API key?
No. Recipes Daily completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 3 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Recipes Daily?
It answers our handshake in 362 ms on average, which is faster than 42% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.