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 · 11 dishes here use it

Out of mozzarella

Stretch and mildness. Fresh mozzarella is wet and will make anything baked soggy unless it is drained and torn; the low-moisture kind melts better and tastes of less.

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

provolone, scamorza or a low-moisture blend

one for one

What it gets you
The same melt and pull on a pizza or in a bake, with more flavor.
What it costs you
The mildness, and provolone can go oily under a hot broiler.

Instead · 2

burrata or fresh mozzarella, for a salad

one for one

What it gets you
A cold, milky, tearable cheese, and burrata is the better one.
What it costs you
Any baking. Both flood the tray with water.

Instead · 3

monterey jack

one for one

What it gets you
A dependable melting cheese with no stringing and no separation.
What it costs you
The stretch, which for a pizza photograph is the entire specification.

Where the swap will be tasted · 5

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