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

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
white wine

In the pantry · 23 uses

white wine

Acid and a little sweetness for deglazing, and it should be something you would drink. Cooking wine is salted and thin, and reducing it concentrates the wrong parts.

18

dishes and drinks that need it

5

more where it is worth adding

89%

of those are under 30 min

What it is usually standing next to

Garlic is in 67% 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

Built on it · 18

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

Worth adding · 5

These work without it. They work better with it.