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.

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How to get around

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A pantry shelf of jars, tins and bottles
garlic

In the pantry · 247 uses

garlic

Burns in seconds and turns the whole dish bitter, so it almost never goes in first. Sliced is mild and sweet, crushed is loud, and grated raw into a dressing is louder than either.

224

dishes and drinks that need it

23

more where it is worth adding

83%

of those are under 30 min

Ingredient transformation map

What heat, time, and handling can turn garlic into

This is not a recipe. It is a map of useful states for this allium so the ingredient can become a component instead of waiting for one exact dish.

Handling garlic

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Reviewed video for the prep and the technique this one turns up in.

What it is usually standing next to

Nothing dominates: the most common companion, olive oil, appears in only 28% 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

Quickest dish · 5 min

Dill yogurt sauce

Potatoes, salmon, and cucumbers all want this.

Built on it · 224

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

Worth adding · 23

These work without it. They work better with it.

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