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Crispy Potato Wedges

My favorite method for getting your roasted potatoes nice and crisp!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 5 ingredients
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Crispy Potato Wedges

Why it works: Olive and garlic are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 25,665 recipes mention both. Both carry linalool, which smells floral, citrus. The science ↓

Crispy Potato Wedges

Serves 4
Prep10 min
Cook40 min

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

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Potato + olivetop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together6,458 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-undecenal (sweet).

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

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

  5. Potato + peppertop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together8,305 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 (potato, olive, pepper):

  1. Rosemaryabout as good a flavor fit
  2. Thymeabout as good a flavor fit
  3. Parsleyabout as good a flavor fit
  4. Garlicthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against potato, olive, pepper. 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).