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Slow Cooker Cheesy Mushroom Potatoes

"Super easy way to make cheesy potatoes if your oven is too full. Basic ingredients that we all have on hand. Add diced ham to make this dish the main course."

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Slow Cooker Cheesy Mushroom Potatoes

Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 29,058 recipes mention both. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Slow Cooker Cheesy Mushroom Potatoes

10 servings
Prep20 min
Cook4 hr 10 min

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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. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  3. Potato + oniontop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,023 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Potato + garlictop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,517 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  5. Mushroom + garlictop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together4,700 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, butter, mushroom, potato, cheddar cheese, milk, garlic):

  1. Tomatoabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Chiveabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Onionthe original
  4. Capsicumabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against olive, butter, mushroom, potato, cheddar cheese, milk, garlic. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).