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Smoked Memphis Ribs with Smoky Twice-Baked Potatoes

Prepared in our specially designed wood pellet grill, these baby back ribs emerge tender and succulent, with an enticing smoky flavor. Twice-baked potatoes, also cooked on the grill, make a delicious accompaniment.

By williamssonoma · From Open Recipes · 23 ingredients
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Why it works: Pork and potato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,667 recipes mention both. Both carry sotolon, which smells curry, maple. The science ↓

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Ingredients

Contains: milk, soy, fish (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. Pork + potatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,667 recipes

    Shared aroma: sotolon (curry, maple).

  2. Garlic + potatotop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,512 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  3. Mustard + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together14,067 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Cider + vinegartop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together402 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4-ethyl-2-methoxyphenol (smoky, clove).

  5. Mustard + potatotop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together1,339 recipes

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

Mustard and vinegar share little aroma chemistry, yet 14,067 recipes mention both: they likely work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

Flavor stand-ins for the white pepper

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (pepper, garlic, sugar, mustard, pork, cider, vinegar):

  1. Thymebetter flavor fit
  2. Allspicebetter flavor fit
  3. Gingerbetter flavor fit
  4. White pepperthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, garlic, sugar, mustard, pork, cider, vinegar. 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).