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
cucumber

In the pantry · 46 uses

cucumber

Water and crunch, which is a real job in a rich dish. Salt it and drain it first if it is going into anything you do not want to go watery in ten minutes.

38

dishes and drinks that need it

8

more where it is worth adding

97%

of those are under 30 min

What it is usually standing next to

Lemon turns up alongside it in about 37% of them, which is a strong lean rather than a rule.

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 · 38

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

Worth adding · 8

These work without it. They work better with it.