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MCP Ptitchef MCP Server

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MCP Ptitchef runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 198 installs a week from npm. Last commit 17 Sep 2026.

Search Ptitchef recipes, read one, and rescale it to any servings. No API key.

Installs per day peak 126 · avg 4
a month agotoday
198
Installs / week
npm · mcp-ptitchef
0
Stars
1 open issues
17 Sep 2026
Last commit
0 releases in 90 days
MIT
License
TypeScript

Nothing serious here today

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

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This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add mcp-ptitchef -- npx -y mcp-ptitchef
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-ptitchef": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-ptitchef"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.mcp-ptitchef]
command = "npx"
args = ["-y", "mcp-ptitchef"]
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-ptitchef": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-ptitchef"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "mcp-ptitchef": {
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-ptitchef"
      ],
      "command": "npx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: PTC_USER_AGENT (Identify your own client. This project's identifier stays appended, so the site can always reach a human.), PTC_MIN_INTERVAL_MS (Minimum milliseconds between requests. Default 1500, floor 1000, ceiling 60000.), PTC_TIMEOUT_MS (Deadline for one request, in milliseconds. Default 20000.), PTC_MAX_RETRIES (Retries when the site is busy or asks for room. Default 3.), PTC_CACHE_TTL_MS (In-memory cache lifetime, in milliseconds. Default 900000. Set 0 to turn it off.), PTC_CACHE_MAX_ENTRIES (In-memory cache size. Default 200.), PTC_MAX_BODY_BYTES (The most one page may run to before the read is abandoned. Default 8000000.), PTC_BUDGET_MS (The whole of the time one read may take, retries included. Default 60000.), PTC_LOG_LEVEL (silent, error, info or debug. Default error. Logs go to stderr.). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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MCP Ptitchef — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for MCP Ptitchef?
MCP Ptitchef runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the npm package mcp-ptitchef was installed 198 times last week.
How do I connect MCP Ptitchef?
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 runs locally, so the command pulls mcp-ptitchef straight from npm; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.
How many people use MCP Ptitchef?
The npm package mcp-ptitchef was installed 198 times in the last week. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.
Is MCP Ptitchef open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript, 0 stars on GitHub and 1 open issue. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.