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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.

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Substitutions · 126 dishes here use it

Out of scallion

Two ingredients on one stalk. The white end cooks like a mild onion and wants the pan early; the green end wilts in seconds and belongs on top after the heat is off.

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

42% of the 126 dishes here that mention scallion 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

chives

one for one for the green part only

What it gets you
The finishing job exactly — the fresh oniony green that goes on at the end.
What it costs you
The white part, which is a cooking ingredient rather than a garnish and does a different job.

Instead · 2

the green tops of a leek, sliced thin

one for one, but cook them

What it gets you
The color and a mild allium note in anything that gets heat.
What it costs you
Raw use. Leek greens are tough and need a minute in the pan to be worth eating.

Instead · 3

red onion, sliced paper thin and rinsed

a quarter onion per two scallions

What it gets you
A raw allium crunch on top of a bowl, which is most of what scallion was there for.
What it costs you
Subtlety. Rinsing pulls the harshness out but it is still louder than a scallion.

Where you can just leave it out · 53

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

Showing 30 of 53. The rest are on the ingredient page.

Where the swap will be tasted · 32

These need it and are short enough that nothing hides: 4 required ingredients or fewer, which makes scallion a quarter of what is in the pan. Make the swap a decision rather than a repair.

Showing the 30 shortest of 32.

Check what else is in the pan

The company scallion 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 scallionRank what I can actually cookAll substitutions