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 · 207 dishes here use it

Out of eggs

The cheapest way to turn a side dish into dinner. Nearly every egg failure is a heat failure — scrambled wants low, fried wants high, and anything custard wants the pan off the burner before you think it does.

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

21 of the 207 dishes here that mention eggs list it as optional — 10% of them. In those, the correct substitution is nothing.

What to reach for

Instead · 1

ground flaxseed in water, for binding only

a tablespoon of flax in three of water per egg, rested five minutes

What it gets you
The glue. Meatballs, burgers, a batter that needs to hold together — this does that job honestly.
What it costs you
Lift and richness, both entirely. Nothing about this rises or sets.
Not here
Custards, curds, anything where the egg is supposed to thicken with heat.

Instead · 2

silken tofu, blended smooth

a quarter cup per egg

What it gets you
Body and moisture in a bake, and a scramble that is more convincing than it has any right to be.
What it costs you
Color and any structure that depends on protein setting. Cakes come out denser and damper.

Instead · 3

aquafaba, the liquid from a can of chickpeas

three tablespoons per whole egg, two per white

What it gets you
The one thing nothing else does — it whips. Meringue, mousse, a foam on a drink.
What it costs you
Nothing yolk-shaped. No fat, no emulsifying power, no color.

What none of them do

There is no substitute for an egg in an omelette, a fried egg, or carbonara. In those the egg is the dish and the honest move is to cook something else.

Where you can just leave it out · 21

These dishes list eggs 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 · 92

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

Showing the 30 shortest of 92.

Check what else is in the pan

The company eggs 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 eggsRank what I can actually cookAll substitutions