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
soy sauce

In the pantry · 125 uses

soy sauce

Salt with a savory backbone, so it seasons and deepens in one move. It also burns — added to a hot dry pan it goes acrid, so it wants liquid around it or the heat down.

114

dishes and drinks that need it

11

more where it is worth adding

95%

of those are under 30 min

What it is usually standing next to

Garlic turns up alongside it in about 39% 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

Chili oil soy dip

For dumplings, eggs, or leftover rice.

Built on it · 114

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

Worth adding · 11

These work without it. They work better with it.

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