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April 2, 2025

Tom Blomfield’s AI recipe app trolled with bogus meals

The Monzo founder’s Recipe Ninja was flooded with instructions for items such as a ‘uranium bomb’ and ‘actual cocaine’

Amy Lewin and Martin Coulter

4 min read

Monzo founder and Y Combinator partner Tom Blomfield has unveiled a new recipe app he’s built — but within hours the site has been flooded with user-generated instructions for items ranging from “snot pasta” to “pre-shitted pants”. 

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RecipeNinja, screenshot April 2
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RecipeNinja app
RecipeNinja, screenshot April 2
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Amy Lewin

Amy Lewin is Sifted’s editor and host of Startup Europe — The Sifted Podcast . Follow her on X, LinkedIn and Bluesky

Martin Coulter

Martin Coulter is Sifted's news editor, based in London. You can follow him on LinkedIn and X

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