Kitchen & Bar

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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 · 47 dishes here use it

Out of dill

Grassy and slightly anise, and it belongs to cold food more than hot. Heat kills it, so it goes into yogurt, cured fish and dressings rather than into a pan.

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

47% of the 47 dishes here that mention dill already list it as optional. Before you look for a replacement, check whether you are in one of them.

What to reach for

Instead · 1

fennel fronds

one for one

What it gets you
Almost exactly the same thing. Fronds are feathery, anise-scented and they behave identically raw.
What it costs you
Nothing meaningful. This is the best swap in this file.

Instead · 2

tarragon

half as much

What it gets you
The anise register dill lives in, in the same dishes — fish, eggs, cream, cucumber.
What it costs you
Tarragon is much stronger and more licorice-forward, so it leads instead of supporting.

Instead · 3

parsley plus a pinch of crushed fennel seed

one for one on the parsley, an eighth teaspoon of seed per tablespoon

What it gets you
Green freshness and the anise note, built from two things most kitchens have.
What it costs you
The look, and the seed needs crushing or it reads as a texture problem.

Where you can just leave it out · 22

These dishes list dill as optional. They were written to work without it, so no ratio is needed and nothing has to be bought.

Where the swap will be tasted · 11

These need it and are short enough that nothing hides: 4 required ingredients or fewer, which makes dill 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 dill 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 dillRank what I can actually cookAll substitutions