About fridgetonight

fridgetonight is a kitchen tool. You photograph a single shelf at home; two models read it and each plan one dinner from what is there; you choose between them and take the list for the gaps. It costs nothing and asks for no account.

Why two plans

A single answer is hard to judge. Two answers to the same shelf, side by side, make the better one obvious in a few seconds, and the pick is a fact worth keeping: which plan a real household chose for a real shelf, and why. The models are named only after the pick so the choice is about the food.

What the site keeps

The photo is read and dropped. What is kept depends on one tick box that starts unticked. Unticked, the site records that a read happened, how long it took, and which plan won. Ticked, it also keeps the list of items read from the shelf with the age band and household type you chose. That record can be licensed to companies that buy data for research and model training, and a share of the payment is owed to the people who contributed. The privacy page lists every field.

The pilot behind it

Before the tool went live, the reader was scored on 30 public fridge, freezer and pantry photographs from Wikimedia Commons with 341 labelled items. The pilot release carries the figures. The combination pages are seeded from the same 30 shelves and say so on each page.

Who runs it

An independent operator in Utah, with the building done by software agents and the decisions made by a person. Write to hello@fridgetonight.com.