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Pheasant + Ham

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 113 recipes, and they share 25 flavor molecules: the top 18% of all ingredient pairs.

Smell alikemoderate
Cooked together113 recipes
Ranktop 18% of pairs
Try them in the pairing tool Pheasant Ham
152pheasant only 25shared 79ham only Pheasant · 177 Ham · 104
Circle size = number of flavor molecules on record. Overlap = molecules they share.

Do pheasant and ham go together?

Yes. 113 recipes in our collection combine them, and they share 25 flavor molecules. That places them in the top 18% of every ingredient pair we score.

Why they work

They overlap on 25 flavor molecules: 24% of ham's 104. Among the shared key aromas are decanal (soap, orange peel) and 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

What each one brings

pheasant

The tartness. Sour notes make up 30% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 5% for ham. It carries 152 molecules ham doesn't have.

ham

The fresh, green side. Green notes make up 18% of its labelled aroma molecules, against 8% for pheasant. It carries 79 molecules pheasant doesn't have.

Add a third ingredient

  • Rabbit: the best fit for both, top 1% of pairs with pheasant, top 13% with ham.
  • Quail: top 1% of pairs with pheasant, top 19% with ham.
  • Greylag goose: top 1% of pairs with pheasant, top 19% with ham.
  • Mallard duck: top 1% of pairs with pheasant, top 14% with ham.

Ranked by the average of its two pairing scores. Only foods used in at least 100 recipes are suggested.

Recipes with pheasant and ham

We have no browsable recipe that lists both pheasant and ham.

Can you swap one for the other?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: pheasant has 152 molecules ham doesn't, and ham has 79 that pheasant doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

All 25 shared molecules

See every shared molecule grouped by chemical class, with key aromas marked, plus the 152 only in pheasant and the 79 only in ham.

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Pheasant and ham questions

Do pheasant and ham go together?

A good pairing. Cooks put them together in 113 recipes, and they share 25 flavor molecules: the top 18% of all ingredient pairs.

Why do pheasant and ham taste good together?

They overlap on 25 flavor molecules: 24% of ham's 104. Among the shared key aromas are decanal (soap, orange peel) and 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

What goes with pheasant and ham?

Rabbit is the best third ingredient: top 1% of pairs with pheasant and top 13% with ham. Quail and greylag goose also fit both.

Can I use ham instead of pheasant?

Not really. Each has a lot the other lacks: pheasant has 152 molecules ham doesn't, and ham has 79 that pheasant doesn't. Treat them as partners, not stand-ins. This compares flavor only; texture, moisture and the job each does in a dish matter too.

Compare other ingredients

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Two ingredients gives the full side-by-side breakdown; add a third to see a similarity matrix across all of them (up to 6).

Ranks compare this pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. Molecule counts are what the studies and databases we aggregate have reported for each ingredient: a measure of coverage, not a full census. How we score pairs

Cite this analysis
Plain text
Compound Kitchen (2026). Compound similarity analysis: Pheasant vs Ham. https://compkitchen.com/compare/pheasant-vs-ham. Accessed 2026-11-04.
BibTeX
@misc{compkitchen_compare_compound_similarity_analysis_pheasant_vs_ham_2026,
  title  = {Compound similarity analysis: Pheasant vs Ham},
  author = {{Compound Kitchen}},
  year   = {2026},
  url    = {https://compkitchen.com/compare/pheasant-vs-ham},
  note   = {Accessed: 2026-11-04}
}

Methodology DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.19719459 · CC BY 4.0 · Citations are a request, not a requirement.