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.

Substitutions · 9 dishes here use it

Out of amaro

Bitter herbal liqueur, and every bottle is its own recipe. It can replace both the sweet and the bitter element in a drink at once, which is why a two-ingredient amaro drink can taste finished.

Everything below is judged against that job. A swap that covers it is a swap; one that only looks similar is not.

What to reach for

Instead · 1

another amaro

one for one, then taste

What it gets you
The category, which is broad on purpose — bitter, herbal, sweet, in some order.
What it costs you
The particular bottle. These vary more than any other spirit category, so taste before you build the drink.

Instead · 2

sweet vermouth plus several dashes of bitters

three quarters the volume, four to six dashes

What it gets you
The sweet-bitter-herbal shape at roughly the right sugar.
What it costs you
Length and alcohol. Vermouth is weaker and it fades faster in the glass.

Instead · 3

campari or aperol

one for one for campari; one and a half for aperol

What it gets you
Bitterness with a red color and a citrus lean.
What it costs you
The dark, root-and-bark depth that a brown amaro carries.

Where the swap will be tasted · 9

These need it and are short enough that nothing hides: 4 required ingredients or fewer, which makes amaro a quarter of what is in the pan. Make the swap a decision rather than a repair.

Check what else is in the pan

The company amaro keeps in this library, counted off required ingredients. A swap that argues with the top two is the wrong swap, whatever a chart says.

What to make with amaroRank what I can actually cookAll substitutions