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 · 16 uses

cognac

Grape spirit with fruit and oak, which makes it rounder and less spiky than whiskey in the same drink. It goes soft under too much sugar, so it wants acid or bitterness beside it.

15

dishes and drinks that need it

1

more where it is worth adding

100%

of those are under 30 min

What it is usually standing next to

Lemon turns up alongside it in about 33% 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 drink · 2 min

Cognac soda

Cognac and soda with a lemon peel, which is how it is drunk in France and almost nowhere else.

Built on it · 15

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

Worth adding · 1

These work without it. They work better with it.

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