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 · 12 dishes here use it

Out of grapefruit

Bitter as well as sour, which makes it the one citrus that can carry a drink on its own. It is also the most variable — taste it before you build around 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

orange plus a splash of lemon

three parts orange juice to one of lemon

What it gets you
Sweet citrus with acid behind it, at roughly grapefruit's balance.
What it costs you
The bitterness, which is the whole reason grapefruit is in a paloma or a salad.

Instead · 2

pomelo or blood orange

one for one

What it gets you
A close citrus relative with the same segments and the same use on a plate.
What it costs you
Pomelo is much sweeter and drier; blood orange has no bitterness at all.

Instead · 3

orange juice plus a dash of bitters or a splash of campari

one for one on the juice, two dashes or a quarter ounce

What it gets you
The sweet-bitter shape a grapefruit drink is built on.
What it costs you
The specific pith aroma, and campari brings its own color and sugar.

Where the swap will be tasted · 11

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