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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 · 75 dishes here use it

Out of parsley

Not a garnish, a green note. Flat-leaf has flavor and curly mostly has texture, and a real handful stirred in at the end lifts a heavy dish more reliably than more salt will.

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

63% of the 75 dishes here that mention parsley 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

cilantro

one for one

What it gets you
The same fresh green finish, the same volume, the same knife work.
What it costs you
Neutrality. Parsley recedes and cilantro announces itself, and some of the table will taste soap.

Instead · 2

celery leaves or carrot tops

one for one

What it gets you
A genuinely close stand-in that most people throw away — grassy, slightly bitter, exactly parsley's register.
What it costs you
Nothing much, other than that carrot tops go bitter if they sit in dressing.

Instead · 3

the green part of a scallion, sliced fine

half as much

What it gets you
Color on top and a fresh bite, which is nine tenths of what a parsley garnish is doing.
What it costs you
The herbal note. This is allium standing in for herb, and a gremolata made with it is not one.

Where you can just leave it out · 47

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

Showing 30 of 47. The rest are on the ingredient page.

Where the swap will be tasted · 4

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