Food Recipe MCP vs Time

In-depth architectural comparison of the Food Recipe MCP and Time MCP servers. Compare execution transports, security boundaries, tool capabilities, quality scores, and ready-to-paste client installation snippets for Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and VS Code.

Which MCP Server Should You Choose?

Choose Food Recipe MCP when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Other Tools and Integrations domain.
• You prefer remote streaming HTTP/SSE transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: search_recipes.

Explore Food Recipe MCP Details

Choose Time when:

• You need dedicated capabilities in the Other Tools and Integrations domain.
• You prefer local stdio subprocess transport architecture.
• Your security boundary fits: No auth required (Free / Open Source).
• Primary tools included: create_entities, create_relations, add_observations.

Explore Time Details

Feature & Specification Comparison

Specification	Food Recipe MCP AIDataNordic Other Tools and Integrations	Time VerifiedOther Tools and Integrations
Summary	Semantic search across 50,000+ Food.com recipes with hybrid dense+sparse retrieval and cross-encoder reranking. Filter by diet, cooking time and difficulty. Live remote endpoint available.	Time and timezone conversion capabilities.
Category & Scope

Tools & Capabilities Breakdown

Ready-to-Paste Client Configurations

Paste either (or both) of these JSON server blocks into your client config file (e.g. claude_desktop_config.json or ~/.cursor/mcp.json).

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "aidatanordic-food-recipe-mcp": {
      "url": "https://recipes.aidatanorge.no/mcp"
    }
  }
}

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "time": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-memory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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