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 · 3 dishes here use it

Out of drambuie

Scotch sweetened with honey and herbs, so it is both the spirit and the sugar in whatever it lands in. Two ingredients is genuinely enough with it.

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

scotch plus honey syrup

three quarters ounce scotch and a quarter ounce honey syrup per ounce

What it gets you
Whisky, honey and sweetness, which is what is in the bottle.
What it costs you
The herbs and the spice, which are the part nobody can reverse engineer at home.

Instead · 2

benedictine

one for one

What it gets you
A honeyed, herbal, brandy-based liqueur in the same seat at the same sweetness.
What it costs you
The scotch backbone, so a rusty nail made with it goes softer and more medicinal.

Instead · 3

an aged rum plus honey syrup

three quarters ounce, a quarter ounce

What it gets you
Barrel sweetness and honey, which carries the drink.
What it costs you
The peat and the heather entirely.

Where the swap will be tasted · 3

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