Kitchen & Bar

Kitchen & Bar · First run

Three moves. Then cook.

No setup marathon. The point is to get one credible answer first, then let the shelf get smarter as you use it.

01 · Tonight

Start with the meal, not the database.

Tell Kitchen & Bar what kind of answer you need tonight. You can begin with only the ingredients you know you have; a perfect inventory is not required.

On this phone

The bar across the top scrolls sideways. These are the same stops, with the job of each one written out.

A pantry shelf of jars, tins and bottles
cabbage

In the pantry · 39 uses

cabbage

Cheap, keeps for weeks, and completely different raw and cooked. Shredded raw it is crunch and pepper; charred hard in a dry pan it goes sweet and nutty and stops being a diet vegetable.

34

dishes and drinks that need it

5

more where it is worth adding

71%

of those are under 30 min

What it is usually standing next to

Nothing dominates: the most common companion, onion, appears in only 29% of them, so this is an ingredient that gets around.

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

If you have twenty minutes

Built on it · 34

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

Worth adding · 5

These work without it. They work better with it.