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Home cooks · Delhi NCR, Bengaluru, Mumbai
The cook your neighbour won't stop recommending.
Verified home cooks who come to your kitchen and cook with your ingredients, your masalas and your dietary rules. Browsing every cook near you is free. ₹49 reveals one cook's number and full profile.
✓Browsing is free
✓475 verified cooks
✓No subscription, ever
12 yrs cooking
Arrives 12:30 PM
Rated 4.9
475verified cooks you can call
108localities covered today
9 yrsmedian cooking experience
4.8median customer rating
How it works
From searching to a cook in your kitchen.
Hiring a cook usually means a cousin's recommendation and a lot of hoping. Cookest replaces that with a profile you can actually read.
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Tell us your area
You see only cooks whose hub covers your locality, 108 of them covered today, not a city-wide guess.
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Compare for free
No sign-in needed to look. Years cooking, homes served, cuisine-by-cuisine skill, languages, and separate scores for hygiene, punctuality and conduct.
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Unlock the one you want
₹49 reveals their name, number and full profile. Once per cook, yours for good, no subscription.
04
Call and agree it directly
You settle days, timings and rate with the cook. Cookest takes no commission on what you pay them.
What a cook usually costs
Paid to the cook, not to Cookest₹6,500 – ₹10,000a month, on average, for two meals a day for 3 people
A typical range, so you can budget before you unlock anyone. What a cook actually charges depends on the menu, the number of people and how often they come, and the cook quotes you that figure themselves. Cookest takes no commission on it.
The cooks
Rated for what they can actually cook.
Every cook is scored per cuisine rather than given one blanket star, so "good cook" becomes a specific claim you can check before anyone walks into your home.
Cooks by cuisine
Most cooks cook more than one cuisine, so the bars total more than the roster. Counts cover the 475 cooks listed today, which is every cook you can actually reach.
Browse all 475 cooksDishes they cook most
- Dal makhni
- Kadhai paneer
- Shahi paneer
- Dal tadka
- Masala dosa
- Sambar and idli
- Chicken curry
- Chilli chicken
What most cooks on Cookest are asked for. Each profile lists that cook's own dishes, and they will follow your family recipe too.
Coverage
Deepest where people actually ask.
We add cooks hub by hub rather than announcing cities we cannot staff.
891GurgaonSectors 24–85
106DelhiSouth & West Delhi
31NoidaSectors 15–137
18BengaluruHSR, Kasavanahalli
5MumbaiBandra West
Browse by area: Sector 52, Sector 28, Sector 57, Sector 43, Sector 66.
Pricing
One price. Nothing recurring.
We are solving discovery first: finding a cook you can trust is the hard part. Browsing is free, and you only pay for the cook you actually want to call.
Free
₹0Browsing and search
- Every cook within your locality
- Experience, homes served and ratings
- Filter by cuisine, pure veg, woman cook or slot
- Browse free, no sign-in needed
Unlock a cook
₹49One cook · one time · taxes included
- Their name and phone number, to call or WhatsApp
- Full profile: cuisines, dishes and free slots
- Hygiene, punctuality and conduct scores
- Unlocked for good, on any device you sign in from
Whatever you pay the cook is between the two of you. Cookest takes no commission on it. Payments by Razorpay: UPI, cards and net banking.
Safety
The checks a stranger in your kitchen should pass.
Identity
Skill
Scored per cuisine
A cook rated expert at North Indian and intermediate at Chinese is shown exactly that way.
Conduct
Four separate scores
Hygiene, punctuality, communication and behaviour are rated separately, because they fail separately.
Privacy
Contact stays sealed
Numbers are released only after you unlock a cook, and only to you. We never sell customer or cook data.
Questions
Before you book.
Is this food delivery?
No. The cook travels to your home and cooks in your kitchen, with your utensils and your ingredients. Nothing is cooked elsewhere, packed, or reheated, which is the whole reason it tastes like home food instead of restaurant food.
What exactly do I get for ₹49?
That cook's name and phone number, plus their full profile: every cuisine with its skill level, the dishes they cook, their free slots, and separate scores for hygiene, punctuality, communication and conduct. One-time for that cook, and they stay unlocked on your account for good.
What happens after I have the number?
You call or WhatsApp them and agree your own days, timings and rate directly. Cookest is solving discovery, so we do not sit in the middle of that arrangement.
Who buys the groceries?
You do, in almost every arrangement, and it is why home food tastes like yours: you choose the oil, the masalas and how much salt goes in. Settle it with the cook along with everything else.
Can I browse without paying?
Yes, and you do not even need an account. The whole directory is open to search and filter, for as long as you like. The ₹49 is only for revealing one specific cook's contact details.
Do I pay again to see a cook I already unlocked?
No. An unlock is recorded against your account, so that cook shows a View button from then on, on any device you sign in from.
Can I find someone for Jain or pure-veg cooking?
Yes. Filter for pure veg and you will only see cooks who cook vegetarian; 24 of the cooks listed today do. Confirm no onion-garlic or any other rule with them directly.
Do I need an account?
Only to unlock a cook. An unlock has to belong to an account so it stays yours on every device you sign in from. Browsing and filtering need no account at all.
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Compare every cook near you for free, then pay ₹49 only for the one you want to call.