Kitchen & Bar

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How to get around

The bar under the name is the map. Swipe it sideways if a destination sits off-screen. On Tonight, the button pinned to the bottom cooks the lead dish.

  1. Tonight — What you can cook first, plus drinks that fit the same shelf.

  2. This week — Five dinners from the shelf, urgent things cooked first.

  3. Shelf — Edit what you actually own.

  4. Written methods — Every dish and drink with a method somebody wrote out.

  5. The pantry — Start from one ingredient: what it does, and everything built on it.

  6. Out of it — What to use instead, judged by the job the missing thing was doing.

  7. Photo review — Review a demo shelf photo and confirm every item before adding it.

  8. Flavor Lab — Pairings with a track record: classic matches and the mixology behind them.

  9. Wild cards — Combinations with no tradition behind them, only shared aroma notes.

  10. Send to Occasion OS — Prepare confirmed shelf availability for Occasion OS.

  11. The field — The gap this layer owns.

Keep it on the home screen

  1. iPhone — tap Share, then Add to Home Screen.
  2. Android — open the browser menu, then Install app or Add to Home screen.

After that it opens as Kitchen & Bar, not a browser tab. Inventory stays on this device.

In the pantry · 31 uses

berries

Acid and sweetness with almost no body, so they want fat or starch beside them. Frozen are better than out-of-season fresh for anything cooked, and worse for anything raw.

25

dishes and drinks that need it

6

more where it is worth adding

88%

of those are under 30 min

What it is usually standing next to

Honey turns up alongside it in about 32% of them, which is a strong lean rather than a rule.

Counted off required ingredients across the whole corpus. A companion listed here is one these dishes are built from, not one we are recommending.

If you have twenty minutes

Quickest dish · 2 min

Prosecco berries

Macerate the berries in honey first so they release syrup, then pour at an angle. It is a dessert and a drink and it takes four minutes.

Quickest drink · 4 min

Prosecco with crushed berries

Peach is traditional; berries if that is what thawed. Don't turn it into jam.

Built on it · 25

Take it out and the dish is something else. Fastest first.

Worth adding · 6

These work without it. They work better with it.

Out of berries?Rank this against my whole shelfOpen berries in the Flavor LabBack to the pantry