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Simple Chicken Brine

"This simple chicken brine will help make the meat more tender and juicy."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Simple Chicken Brine

Why it works: Sugar and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 13% of all ingredient pairs, and 5,147 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Simple Chicken Brine

1 gallon
Prep10 min

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By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.

  1. Sugar + saucetop 13% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,147 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Sauce + olivetop 20% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together5,568 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Sugar + olivetop 35% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together12,483 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-penten-3-one (fish, pungent).

Sugar and olive share little aroma chemistry, yet 12,483 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs