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 · 60 uses

sesame oil

A seasoning, not a cooking oil. Toasted sesame smokes and turns bitter in a hot pan, so it goes in at the end by the teaspoon, off the heat, where it reads as nutty rather than burnt.

38

dishes and drinks that need it

22

more where it is worth adding

100%

of those are under 30 min

What it is usually standing next to

Soy sauce is in 74% of the dishes that call for it — close enough to be a rule rather than a habit.

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 dish · 10 min

Ginger edamame

The freezer bag, a grater of ginger. Snack that is dinner if the rice is on.

Quickest drink · 5 min

Sesame ginger highball

A few drops of sesame, not a pour. Ginger and lime do the drinking.

Built on it · 38

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

Worth adding · 22

These work without it. They work better with it.

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