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 · 34 dishes here use it

Out of tortillas

They want direct heat before they go anywhere near a plate. Thirty seconds a side on a dry pan turns them from stiff to pliable, and skipping that is why a taco tears.

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

2 of the 34 dishes here that mention tortillas list it as optional — 6% of them. In those, the correct substitution is nothing.

What to reach for

Instead · 1

pita or naan, warmed

one round per two tortillas

What it gets you
A flatbread to hold food, which is the job.
What it costs you
The corn, and the size. These are thicker, so the ratio of bread to filling changes and the filling loses.

Instead · 2

lettuce leaves — butter, romaine hearts or cabbage

two leaves per tortilla

What it gets you
A cold, crisp wrapper that suits a rich filling better than a soft one does.
What it costs you
Everything warm and starchy about a taco. This is a different meal and it should be sold as one.

Instead · 3

rice, in a bowl

a cup per two tortillas

What it gets you
An honest answer. Every taco filling is a rice bowl and nobody at the table will complain.
What it costs you
The eating with hands, which for some dinners is the entire appeal.

Where you can just leave it out · 2

These dishes list tortillas 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 · 19

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