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Texas Pork Ribs

"This is a multiple prize-winning master recipe. It has several steps that can be used on pork spareribs, country style ribs, or pretty much any other type of pork rib; simply adjust oven time up for meatier cuts. Try to use some smoking chips on the barbecue. The smokier the grill, the better the ribs will taste!"

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Texas Pork Ribs

Why it works: Garlic and onion 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 ↓

Texas Pork Ribs

12 servings
Prep30 min
Cook5 hr

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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. Garlic + oniontop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Pepper + garlictop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,090 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

  3. Sugar + ketchuptop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Pork + oniontop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together18,214 recipes

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

  5. Pepper + oniontop 11% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together68,474 recipes

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

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

Flavor stand-ins for the garlic

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pork, sugar, pepper, onion, ketchup):

  1. Garlicthe original
  2. Celeryabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Allspiceabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit

Fit is the average pairing score against pork, sugar, pepper, onion, ketchup. 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).