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Bacon Cheddar Ranch Pub Burgers

Bacon, cheddar and a homemade ranch aioli completes these delicious pub burgers.

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Why it works: Ranch and beef work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and 59 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-decalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

Serves 4
Prep35 min
Cook13 min

Ingredients

Contains: egg, milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

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By tastykitchen. 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. Ranch + beeftop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together59 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Lemon + parsleytop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together14,036 recipes

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

  3. Olive + garlictop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together23,449 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Garlic + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9,294 recipes

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

  5. Olive + parsleytop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together8,668 recipes

    Shared aroma: myrcene (balsamic, herbaceous).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the clove

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (ranch, egg, mustard, lemon, olive, garlic, parsley):

  1. Dillbetter flavor fit
  2. Celerybetter flavor fit
  3. Thymebetter flavor fit
  4. Clovethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against ranch, egg, mustard, lemon, olive, garlic, parsley. 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).