Korean cooking with AI bots: techniques, ingredients and prompts

Core techniques

• Lacto-fermenting kimchi
• Cooking with the three jang: gochujang, doenjang and ganjang (soy sauce)
• Marinating and grilling (bulgogi, galbi)
• Simmered stews (jjigae) and long-boiled broths (guk, tang)

Key ingredients

• Gochugaru (chile flakes), gochujang
• Doenjang (fermented soybean paste)
• Soy sauce, toasted sesame oil, sesame seeds
• Garlic (lots), scallion, ginger
• Napa cabbage, Korean radish
• Short-grain rice
• Anchovy and kelp stock

Flavor logic

Deep fermented savoriness from jang, sour-spicy kimchi, nutty sesame and sweet notes (Asian pear, sugar) in marinades.

Dishes to start with

• Kimchi jjigae
• Bibimbap
• Bulgogi
• Japchae
• Sundubu jjigae

Bot prompts that get better answers

I want to learn Korean home cooking properly.
1. Explain the main regional styles and what makes each distinct.
2. Teach me the 3 core techniques I should practice first, with common mistakes.
3. Give me a starter pantry list, with substitutes available in a typical US supermarket, and say how each substitute changes the result.
Say when something varies by region or family, and don't present one version as the only "authentic" one.

Walk me through making Kimchi jjigae for [n] people.
Ingredients in grams and US measures. Explain why each key step matters.
Include the USDA safe internal temperature for any meat, poultry, seafood or eggs.
Then suggest one traditional variation and where it comes from.

I'm making a Korean dish and it tastes [flat / too salty / too sour / too spicy].
Using the flavor logic of Korean cooking, suggest one small fix at a time.

How we wrote this

Cuisines are living traditions with big regional and family differences; this is a respectful starting map, not the one true way. Use the bot prompts to explore, then learn from cooks, cookbooks and restaurants from that tradition. Meat and egg doneness still follows FoodSafety.gov safe minimum temperatures.

Checked Oct 29, 2026. Bots sometimes invent "authentic" facts; ask them to say how sure they are and to separate tradition from guesswork.