Kitchen & Bar

On this phone

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 · 202 uses

butter

Flavor and body in the same spoonful. Cold butter swirled into a hot pan with the heat off thickens a sauce without flour, which is the most useful thing it does and the thing most cooks never use it for.

163

dishes and drinks that need it

39

more where it is worth adding

82%

of those are under 30 min

What it is usually standing next to

Nothing dominates: the most common companion, eggs, appears in only 28% of them, so this is an ingredient that gets around.

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 · 8 min

Anchovy butter toast

Anchovy mashed into soft butter an hour ahead if you can. Nobody will name it, everybody will finish it, and it costs about a pound.

Quickest drink · 6 min

Hot buttered rum

Butter, sugar and spice whisked into hot rum. It sounds like too much until it is November and you are outside.

Built on it · 163

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

Worth adding · 39

These work without it. They work better with it.

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