🧀🔥 Cheese on Toast

A mobile-first PWA cooking app that teaches teenagers basic kitchen skills through retro arcade-style cooking simulators.

Live app: https://toasted-cheese-map.emergent.host

Preview

What it does

Cheese on Toast lets users practise cooking steps in a playful simulator before trying the real recipe.

The app includes:

• Arcade-style cooking challenges
• Achievements, streak counters, and perfect-run scoring
• Beginner-friendly recipes
• Mobile-first PWA install support
• Brutalist black/yellow visual design
• Privacy, terms, and contact pages

Target users

• Teens learning basic cooking
• Parents looking for safer beginner kitchen tools
• University students learning simple meals

Tech stack

• React PWA
• TailwindCSS
• FastAPI
• MongoDB
• Stripe Checkout
• Resend
• Gemini-generated recipe illustrations

Status

Hosted MVP.

This project is live, public, and under active development.

Local development

Frontend

cd frontend
npm install
npm run dev

Backend

cd backend
pip install -r requirements.txt
uvicorn main:app --reload

Legal pages

• /privacy
• /terms
• /contact