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

How to get around

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
cumin

In the pantry · 110 uses

cumin

Earthy and slightly bitter, and it needs heat to open. Toasted in a dry pan or bloomed in oil it changes character completely; stirred into a finished dish it tastes dusty.

93

dishes and drinks that need it

17

more where it is worth adding

63%

of those are under 30 min

What it is usually standing next to

Onion is in 66% of the dishes that call for it — close enough to be a rule rather than a habit.

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

Quickest dish · 10 min

Cucumber raita

Salt the cucumber and squeeze it or the raita turns to soup.

Built on it · 93

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

Worth adding · 17

These work without it. They work better with it.

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