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 · 16 dishes here use it

Out of smoked salt

Smoke without a fire, delivered as seasoning. Use it as a finish rather than in the cooking — the aroma is the point and it fades under heat.

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

6 of the 16 dishes here that mention smoked salt list it as optional — 38% of them. In those, the correct substitution is nothing.

What to reach for

Instead · 1

regular salt plus a pinch of smoked paprika

one for one on the salt, an eighth teaspoon of paprika per teaspoon

What it gets you
Salt and smoke together, which is the whole specification.
What it costs you
The color stays with the paprika, so a pale dish goes faintly orange.

Instead · 2

a few drops of liquid smoke with plain salt

two drops per teaspoon of salt

What it gets you
Clean smoke without color, and it is more controllable than it sounds.
What it costs you
Subtlety. Three drops is too many and there is no way back.

Instead · 3

plain flaky salt

one for one

What it gets you
The salt and the crunch, which is most of what a finishing salt does.
What it costs you
The smoke, which was the reason for the jar.

Where you can just leave it out · 6

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

Where the swap will be tasted · 9

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