Kitchen & Bar

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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 · 77 dishes here use it

Out of orange

Sweeter and rounder than lemon and lime, so it softens rather than sharpens. The peel carries more of what makes it taste like orange than the juice does, which is why so many drinks are finished with a twist.

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

51% of the 77 dishes here that mention orange already list it as optional. Before you look for a replacement, check whether you are in one of them.

What to reach for

Instead · 1

a mandarin, clementine or tangerine

two small for one orange

What it gets you
The same sweet citrus, usually with more perfume and less pith.
What it costs you
Juice volume, and the zest is thinner so it is harder to peel in strips.

Instead · 2

lemon plus a pinch of sugar

half the volume of lemon juice, a quarter teaspoon of sugar per tablespoon

What it gets you
Citrus acid tuned back toward orange's sweetness, which covers the job in a dressing or a glaze.
What it costs you
Orange's specific floral note, which is the thing people are tasting for in a drink.

Instead · 3

orange liqueur or a splash of juice from the carton

a tablespoon of liqueur, or two of juice, per orange's worth

What it gets you
Flavor immediately, and behind a bar the liqueur is frequently the better ingredient.
What it costs you
Freshness, and cartoned juice is cooked juice — it tastes of the carton in anything uncooked.

Where you can just leave it out · 39

These dishes list orange as optional. They were written to work without it, so no ratio is needed and nothing has to be bought.

Showing 30 of 39. The rest are on the ingredient page.

Where the swap will be tasted · 30

These need it and are short enough that nothing hides: 4 required ingredients or fewer, which makes orange 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 orange keeps in this library, counted off required ingredients. A swap that argues with the top two is the wrong swap, whatever a chart says.

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