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

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
olive oil

In the pantry · 194 uses

olive oil

Two ingredients sharing a name. The cheap one is for the pan and the good one is for the finish, and pouring the good one into a hot skillet burns off exactly what you paid for.

156

dishes and drinks that need it

38

more where it is worth adding

74%

of those are under 30 min

The technique underneath this

What it is usually standing next to

Lemon turns up alongside it in about 41% 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

Quickest dish · 5 min

Chocolate olive oil plate

A few squares, good oil, flaky salt. Not a recipe so much as a way to end dinner without turning the oven back on.

Built on it · 156

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

Worth adding · 38

These work without it. They work better with it.

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