ChatGPT’s menus change from time to time. If a name below is different, pick the closest match.
Who can add it
OpenAI’s help says custom MCP servers are for Business, Enterprise and Edu workspaces, on chatgpt.com in a browser.
- Business: only admins and owners can add one.
- Enterprise and Edu: an admin has to give you permission first.
- Pro: ChatGPT can use only the reading tools. It can search and read recipes, but not save them or add to your list.
- Free, Go and Plus: OpenAI doesn’t say. If you don’t see Add custom MCP server, your plan doesn’t have it.
Saucepan isn’t in ChatGPT’s Plugin directory yet.
Steps
- On a computer, go to chatgpt.com/plugins and click +.
- Choose Add custom MCP server.
- Enter the name Saucepan. Under Connection, enter
https://getsaucepan.com/mcp. - Set authentication to OAuth.
- Tick I understand and want to continue, then click Create as a plugin.
- Install the plugin and connect it. A Saucepan page opens. Sign in with Apple, Google or an email code. No account yet? Make a free one on that page.
- Tap Allow.
In a chat, type @ and pick Saucepan.
Try asking
- “Find me a 30-minute vegetarian dinner on Saucepan.”
- “Save this to Saucepan: https://…” with a recipe link.
- “Save that recipe you just wrote to Saucepan.”
- “What can I make with chicken, rice and lemon?”
- “What can I make from my pantry?”
- “Add the ingredients for the lemon chicken to my groceries.”
- “Put it on Thursday’s dinner.”
- “What’s on my meal plan this week?”
Recipes can come back as photo cards in the chat, with Save and Add to groceries buttons.
What ChatGPT can and can’t do
Without an account, it can search Saucepan’s recipe collection: 5,700+ recipes, all with photos, tagged vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, quick and more. It can read any of them.
Signed in, it can also:
- save a recipe from a link, one it wrote in the chat, or one from Saucepan’s recipe collection,
- search your saved recipes and read your collections,
- see your pantry and tell you what you can make,
- add a recipe’s ingredients or single items to your grocery list, and read the list (your household’s list, if you share one),
- read your meal plan and add a recipe or a note to a day.
It can’t delete anything, see your password, or post anything publicly.
Saving from a link works with most recipe websites and food blogs. For Instagram, TikTok and YouTube, share the post to Saucepan from your phone instead.
Disconnect
- In the Saucepan app: Profile → ChatGPT & Claude.
- On the web: getsaucepan.com/app → account menu → ChatGPT and Claude.
ChatGPT loses access at once. You can also disconnect in ChatGPT: Settings → Plugins → Saucepan, then Disconnect.
