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Wisconsin Slow Cooker Brats

"These are the best and easiest brats you'll ever taste."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Wisconsin Slow Cooker Brats

Why it works: Beer and onion work together. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 830 recipes. Both carry gamma-nonanolactone, which smells coconut, sweet. The science ↓

Wisconsin Slow Cooker Brats

8 servings
Prep10 min
Cook4 hr 5 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

109Calories
3 gProtein
0 gFat
18 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Beer1/4 cup (60ml) for cooking43
Tomato1 medium (123g)22

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Beer + oniontop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together830 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-nonanolactone (coconut, sweet).

  2. Onion + ketchuptop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together1,997 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Beer + ketchuptop 29% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beer, ketchup):

  1. Horseradishfits better
  2. Capsicumfits better
  3. Mustardfits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beer, ketchup. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.