# Plate Artists Muse connector

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## Plate Artists

Find recipes and plating ideas, and work out how much turkey, ham or party food to buy.

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/plate-artists
- Category: Lifestyle
- Developer: Plate Artists (https://plateartists.com/mcp)
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 322ms, checked 2026-11-07T01:00:51Z
- Endpoint: https://plateartists.com/mcp
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-11-06T08:51:10Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (com.plateartists/plate-artists) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=com.plateartists%2Fplate-artists

Connects Muse to the Plate Artists recipe catalog, plating and garnish guides, and kitchen calculators. Muse can search recipes by cuisine, category or time, pull full ingredients and steps, suggest something to cook, size a turkey, ham or prime rib, plan a charcuterie board or party, and build a Thanksgiving cooking timeline.

Example request: "How big a turkey do I need for 12 people, and when should it go in the oven if we eat at 4?"

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use Plate Artists to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://plateartists.com/mcp. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- search_recipes: Search the Plate Artists recipe catalog by words in the dish name or keywords, cuisine, category, vegetarian, and total time. Returns short cards with ids and URLs; call get_recipe for the full recipe. Call list_recipe_filters for the exact cuisine and category values.
- get_recipe: The full recipe by id: description, times, servings, ingredients with quantities, the method step by step, plating ideas (how to plate and garnish it), food-safety notes, FAQ and the page URL.
- random_recipe: One random full recipe, optionally limited by cuisine, category or vegetarian. For "what should I cook tonight?" questions.
- list_recipe_filters: The cuisines and categories in the recipe catalog, to use as exact filter values.
- find_guide: Find Plate Artists guides, board guides, holiday hubs and free tools on a topic: plating technique, garnishes, sauces, plate types, knife skills, table setting, napkin folding, food photography, charcuterie boards and more. Returns titles, summaries and URLs. Without a query, lis
- charcuterie_board_calculator: How much cheese, cured meat, crackers, fruit, nuts and jars to buy for a charcuterie board, and what size board, for a guest count.
- party_food_calculator: How much food and drink to buy for a party: appetizer pieces, then the mains, sides, salads, bread and desserts you pick, and drinks for the hours.
- turkey_calculator: What size turkey to buy for a guest count, USDA roasting time at 325°F, fridge and cold-water thawing time, and the done temperature.
- ham_calculator: How much ham to buy per person and USDA FSIS cooking or reheating time and safe temperature. label: cooked = fully cooked (reheat); cbe = cook before eating; fresh = raw pork leg; country = dry-cured country ham. Not every label has every cut.
- prime_rib_calculator: How big a prime rib (standing rib roast) to buy for a guest count, roasting time, the pull temperature for the doneness you want, and the rest. Classic 350°F roast or reverse sear.
- thanksgiving_timeline: A Thanksgiving cooking schedule worked back from the dinner time: what to do on each day before (thawing, make-ahead dishes), when the turkey goes in and comes out, which oven each side dish goes in and when, and any dish that does not fit the ovens, with fixes. Turkey times are 
- knife_cut_size: The size and method of a classic knife cut (julienne, brunoise, batonnet, small dice, chiffonade, paysanne, tourné, mirepoix and more), in inches and millimetres. Without a cut, lists every cut with its size.
- plate_color_pairing: Which plate colour flatters a dish and which makes it disappear, by the food's dominant colour; or which foods a plate you own suits. Call with neither to see the colour families and plates.

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 758ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (plateartists.com not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: n/a (No npm or PyPI package published)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (13 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (Domain registered 268 days ago)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)