Dorm Chef
Purchase terms
What your purchase includes, how you can use your copy, and how AI Chef works
Your purchase
Dorm Chef digital products are sold by Ali El Bourdany in Egypt and are intended for adults aged 18 or over. Choose the product you want before paying.
Each price below is in USD and is a one-time payment, not a subscription. Review the final amount and any applicable taxes or fees in Whop before paying.
Starter Kit
The standalone Starter Kit costs $19. It includes the 64-page guide, plain reading companion, offline editable meal planner, three-meal basket CSV and START-HERE instructions. The guide includes 20 illustrated recipes, six written lessons and a seven-day learning route.
The two newer recipe books are not added automatically to a standalone Starter Kit purchase.
After-Class Treats
This illustrated PDF costs $7 and includes four sweet ideas: a package-directed chocolate mug-cake shortcut, chocolate peanut-butter fridge squares, lemon cheesecake cups and small-batch crispy cereal squares.
The mug-cake idea uses a purchased microwave mug-cake mix and follows that product’s instructions. It is not a from-scratch cake recipe. The book includes ingredients, equipment, methods and shopping guidance.
Small Kitchen Big Lunch
This illustrated PDF costs $9 and includes five lunch recipes: lemon crunch tuna pocket, mild curry chicken pita plate, chicken Caesar crunch wrap, peanut crunch edamame lunch and loaded tuna sweet potato. It includes ingredients, equipment, methods and shopping guidance.
Kitchen Bundle
The Dorm Chef Kitchen Bundle costs $29 and includes the Starter Kit with its included files, After-Class Treats and Small Kitchen Big Lunch. That is 20 Starter Kit recipes, four sweet ideas including the packaged shortcut, five lunch recipes, six short lessons and the Starter Kit planner and shopping tools.
The current individual prices total $35, so the bundle saves $6. It contains the same books as the individual products. If you already own the Starter Kit, the two new standalone books cost $16 together; buying the bundle would duplicate your kit.
Getting your files
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Our return page does not itself confirm payment. If access is missing, check your purchase status in Whop and contact us before trying to pay again.
The standalone Starter Kit keeps its existing seven-day money-back guarantee. Refund requests for After-Class Treats, Small Kitchen Big Lunch and the Kitchen Bundle are reviewed case by case, without limiting mandatory consumer rights.
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Using your copy
You may download, keep, print and use your purchased files for your own personal cooking. Do not resell, publish, share the download publicly or redistribute the files.
Live AI, voice, camera and paid community membership are not included in these books or the bundle. No subscription, future-book entitlement, future-update commitment or lifetime hosted-access promise is part of the purchase.
Know these editions
The Starter Kit is the second edition with US measures. Physical kitchen tests are not yet recorded. Its recipes require refrigeration and six use a permitted microwave. Its three-meal basket covers three single portions, not a full week of food or a week-long storage promise.
After-Class Treats and Small Kitchen Big Lunch are the October 2026 customer editions. These recipes have not been kitchen-tested by Dorm Chef. Preparation times are estimates and results vary with ingredients and equipment. Calorie and protein figures are estimates per serving, worked out from USDA FoodData Central values and the labels of the products the books name. They leave out optional extras and vary by brand. "High protein" means at least 25 g of protein per serving by that estimate. No meal-cost figures are claimed.
Food pictures are serving illustrations, not photographs of tested batches. Follow the measured recipes and relevant package directions. Check your equipment, residence rules, ingredient labels, allergens and handling instructions before preparing food. Supplies and ingredients are not included.
AI Chef
AI Chef starts with a free week: 7 days of the Beginner level from your first AI Chef message, within the daily limits shown in the app. No card is needed, nothing is charged when it ends, and each account gets one free week. Your saved meals and cook mode stay free after it.
After the free week, new recipes and chats need a plan: Home Cook (Beginner and Moderate) or Master Chef (all three levels), each with the monthly limits shown in the app. Plans are sold and billed by Whop at the price shown before you pay, either monthly or as a pass. A monthly plan renews each month until you cancel it in your Whop account, and it stays on until the end of the month you paid for. A semester pass (4 months) or school-year pass (9 months) is paid once, lasts for that time from the payment and never renews. If you move up from a monthly Home Cook plan to Master Chef, cancel Home Cook in your Whop account. To ask for a refund of a plan payment, email us within 7 days of that payment.
Use the same email on Whop as on your Dorm Chef account, so the plan unlocks for you. Free weeks and each plan have a limited number of places; when they are full, new ones open as others end, and we never take a payment for a place we can’t give. Limits keep the service fair and affordable; we may change them, and we may pause AI Chef for maintenance or when our spending limit for the month is reached. The books and the bundle never include an AI Chef plan.
AI Chef recipes are made by AI and checked in code, but they are new and not kitchen-tested. They are cooking ideas, not medical, nutrition or allergy advice. Follow your housing rules, read every label, use only appliances you are allowed to use, and use a food thermometer for meat and fish. Allergen and nutrition counts can be wrong and can’t promise a meal is allergen-free.
Challenges
Microwave mug week runs until 31 October 2026 at 11:59 p.m. US Eastern time. No purchase is needed to enter or win.
Who can enter: anyone 18 or older with a free Dorm Chef account, where this is allowed by law. It is void where prohibited. Ali and anyone helping to run Dorm Chef cannot win.
How to enter: share a post on Cooked by students during the challenge with “Microwave mug week” ticked. The dish must be made in one microwave-safe mug in a microwave. The normal sharing limit applies (up to three posts a day), and only posts Ali approves count.
How winners are chosen: after entries close, Ali picks three favourites, judging equally on creativity, how useful the idea is in a dorm kitchen, and how clear the photos or recipe are. It is not a random draw, and “I’d cook this” counts do not decide it. Ali’s decision is final.
Prizes: each of the three winners gets one Dorm Chef recipe book of their choice (Starter Kit, After-Class Treats or Small Kitchen Big Lunch; retail value up to $19) as a free download through Whop, and a feature on Dorm Chef’s Instagram and TikTok with their chosen name and checked handles. There is no cash alternative and prizes cannot be transferred.
Winners are told by email by 7 November 2026. If a winner does not reply within 14 days, Ali may choose another. Follow your residence’s rules, use a microwave-safe mug and let it cool before eating.
Your rights and contact
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