MSC-Lumina
Dinner, orchestrated.
Restaurant-grade recipes built around the kitchen you actually have — then executed minute by minute, backwards from the moment you want to serve.
Allergen safety is checked on every recipe, on every plan — safety is never a paid feature.
Tonight's menu
Slow-cooked brisket, burnt-end beans, charred hispi
Starred · serves 6 · built for a multi-cooker, oven and gas grill
Every step carries its reasoning — why the sear comes first, why the rest is non-negotiable — with wine and side pairings, plating guidance, and a printable service sheet.
Your timeline · serve at 18:00
- 08:15Sear the brisket — multi-cooker
- 09:00Pressure phase begins
- 11:30Keep Warm hold · oven takes the sides
- 17:42Rest, carve, plate
- 18:00Service.
Running late on a step? Mark it and the whole plan re-flows around you.
Lumina doesn't monitor temperature during a hold — a Keep Warm step is yours to manage and check before serving.
Your kitchen can do more than you think.
01
Tell us your kitchen
Your equipment, your table's allergies, the cuisines you lean toward. Recipes only ever use what you own — techniques you can't execute never appear.
02
Set the moment
A weeknight 25 minutes or a Saturday centrepiece with two sides. Name the hour you want to serve; the plan is built backwards from it.
03
Cook with the pass
A minute-by-minute timeline runs every pan and oven together, re-flowing when life happens — through to a plated dish at the time you promised.
Three ambitions. Honest labels.
The biggest lie in cooking apps is that starred-kitchen food takes fifteen minutes. Every Lumina recipe carries a tier label that tells you the truth about time and technique — before you commit to it.
Chef-quick
Under 30 minutes
Restaurant-grade execution of an appropriately scoped dish. Sharp seasoning, deliberate plating — and no shortcut apology.
Refined
30–60 minutes
Starred-idiom technique, compressed intelligently. The reasoning behind every step, on by default.
Starred
60 minutes and up
The technique depth of a starred kitchen — stocks, reductions, rested proteins, considered plating. We never pretend this takes fifteen minutes.
Safety isn't a feature. It's the architecture.
Your allergens, checked
Tell us what you're allergic to, and MSC-Lumina will check every recipe and ingredient in your plan against it — so you can double-check before you shop or cook. Always confirm ingredient labels yourself; we can't see your kitchen or your grocery shelf.
Honest refusals
If a request can't be done safely and well — a starred dish in fifteen minutes, a dish that can't avoid your allergen — Lumina says no and proposes what your kitchen can do, instead of quietly cutting a corner.
No paywalled safety
Free plan or paid, the same allergen checks run on every recipe. Allergen safety will never appear on a pricing page.
Founding Member pricing, for the first 1,000.
Start free with 3 recipes a month. When you're ready for unlimited generation, full dinner orchestration and service sheets, Chef is £12.99/month ($14.99) — and the first 1,000 members lock £9.99/month ($11.99) for life.