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Coddled Eggs with Bacon & Goat Cheese

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 10 ingredients
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Why it works: Egg and goat cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 16% of all ingredient pairs, and 174 recipes mention both. Both carry 1-octen-3-ol, which smells mushroom, earthy. The science ↓

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

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By williamssonoma. 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. Egg + goat cheesetop 16% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together174 recipes

    Shared aroma: 1-octen-3-ol (mushroom, earthy).

  2. Butter + creamtop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together41,494 recipes

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

  3. Butter + goat cheesetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together183 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

  4. Goat cheese + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together466 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  5. Cream + goat cheesetop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together70 recipes

    Shared aroma: gamma-decalactone (peach, creamy).

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