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 · 14 dishes here use it

Out of miso

Salt and fermented depth in paste form. Boiling it kills the aromatics that made it worth using, so it goes in at the end, whisked with a little liquid first.

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

a different color of miso

white for red at one and a half times; red for white at two thirds

What it gets you
The same fermented soybean paste, tuned lighter or darker.
What it costs you
Balance. Red miso is much saltier and more assertive, so the ratio matters more than the swap does.

Instead · 2

soy sauce with a pinch of sugar

two teaspoons of soy and a pinch of sugar per tablespoon of miso

What it gets you
The salt and the glutamate in a marinade, a broth or a dressing.
What it costs you
The body. Miso thickens and emulsifies; soy sauce is water.

Instead · 3

tahini plus a splash of soy

a teaspoon of each per tablespoon

What it gets you
Thick savory paste behavior and salt at the same time, which covers a dressing well.
What it costs you
The ferment, which is the whole flavor. Add a spoonful of any brine if you have one.

Where the swap will be tasted · 11

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