NYT Cooking AI Saved the Chicken, Nearly Ruined Cake — SkimNews

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- NYT Cooking's AI assistant rescued the author's recurring weeknight chicken dinner, easing the nightly "Chicken again?" complaint from her husband during the 7PM fridge standoff that chicken usually wins
- The cake nearly came out ruined when the assistant handled the dessert, the same tool that fixed the chicken dinner stumbling on a bake
Why it matters: For a home cook stuck eating chicken most weeknights, the assistant's value is narrow but real: it fixes the one meal that repeats every night at 7PM, while a botched cake shows the gap between dinner rescue and full-meal reliability.
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