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

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

The pantry

Start from what is already in the fridge.

192 ingredients, every one of them with a line about what it is actually doing in the pan, and every one of the 1,261 dishes and drinks it turns up in. Each page also says what it is usually standing next to in this library, which is a fact about twelve hundred curated recipes rather than a guess.

A pantry shelf of jars, tins and bottles

192 ingredients, ordered by how much of the library each one opens.

lemon

303

199 dishes · 104 drinks · usually with olive oil

onion

301

300 dishes · 1 drink · usually with tomato

garlic

247

247 dishes · usually with olive oil

eggs

207

199 dishes · 8 drinks · usually with butter

butter

202

200 dishes · 2 drinks · usually with eggs

lime

199

110 dishes · 89 drinks · usually with soda

olive oil

194

194 dishes · usually with lemon

tomato

148

139 dishes · 9 drinks · usually with onion

chili flakes

128

125 dishes · 3 drinks · usually with garlic

scallion

126

126 dishes · usually with soy sauce

soy sauce

125

125 dishes · usually with garlic

honey

118

51 dishes · 67 drinks · usually with lemon

chicken

113

113 dishes · usually with onion

rice

112

111 dishes · 1 drink · usually with onion

cumin

110

109 dishes · 1 drink · usually with onion

sugar

101

61 dishes · 40 drinks · usually with eggs

soda

96

96 drinks · usually with lemon

bread

95

95 dishes · usually with eggs

ginger

91

69 dishes · 22 drinks · usually with soy sauce

stock

90

90 dishes · usually with onion

pasta

89

89 dishes · usually with garlic

potato

81

81 dishes · usually with onion

parmesan

79

79 dishes · usually with pasta

orange

77

11 dishes · 66 drinks · usually with soda

parsley

75

75 dishes · usually with lemon

yogurt

71

67 dishes · 4 drinks · usually with lemon

beef

66

66 dishes · usually with onion

mint

64

26 dishes · 38 drinks · usually with lemon

cinnamon

63

48 dishes · 15 drinks · usually with honey

thyme

62

59 dishes · 3 drinks · usually with onion

sesame oil

60

57 dishes · 3 drinks · usually with soy sauce

cheddar

59

59 dishes · usually with butter

carrot

58

56 dishes · 2 drinks · usually with onion

flour

57

57 dishes · usually with eggs

pork

57

57 dishes · usually with garlic

milk

56

49 dishes · 7 drinks · usually with eggs

coconut milk

49

39 dishes · 10 drinks · usually with lime

dijon

49

49 dishes · usually with onion

dill

47

47 dishes · usually with lemon

cream

46

36 dishes · 10 drinks · usually with onion

cucumber

46

37 dishes · 9 drinks · usually with lemon

feta

46

46 dishes · usually with olive oil

gin

43

43 drinks · usually with lemon

shrimp

42

42 dishes · usually with garlic

cilantro

41

41 dishes · usually with lime

cabbage

39

39 dishes · usually with onion

angostura

38

38 drinks · usually with sugar

hot sauce

38

28 dishes · 10 drinks · usually with tomato

The rest of the shelf · 144

Where these numbers come from

Every count on this page is read out of the same recipe library the ranking uses, so it cannot drift from what the app actually knows. The pairings are counted off required ingredients only — an optional one is a suggestion, and counting suggestions would tell you what we recommend rather than what these dishes are built from. If you would rather go the other way and start from a dish, the written library is the front door. If the problem is that a thing is missing rather than present, the substitutions run off the same library and say what each replacement actually costs.