Kitchen & Bar

On this phone

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 · 20 dishes here use it

Out of tuna

Canned in oil is a different ingredient from canned in water; the oil is flavor and should go into the dish, not the sink. Fresh tuna is a steak and wants the same treatment — hard heat, brief, rare.

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

What to reach for

Instead · 1

canned salmon or sardines

one for one

What it gets you
Oily canned fish for a salad, a sandwich or a pasta, with more omega and more flavor.
What it costs you
Mildness. Sardines in particular are much stronger and want more acid and more onion.

Instead · 2

chickpeas, mashed with mayo and lemon

a can per can

What it gets you
The texture and the role in a sandwich almost exactly.
What it costs you
The fish, and the salt. Season it harder than seems necessary and add a little seaweed if you have it.

Instead · 3

poached chicken, shredded

one for one by weight

What it gets you
A cold protein that takes mayonnaise and celery the same way.
What it costs you
Every trace of the sea, and it is thirty minutes of work rather than a can opener.

Where the swap will be tasted · 8

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