Why it works: Sauce and ketchup match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,099 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Ground Turkey Sloppy Joe Sliders
Serves 3Ingredients
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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.
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Sauce + ketchuptop 1% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together1,099 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together29,779 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together68,474 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
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Olive + peppertop 11% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together30,263 recipes
Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).
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Pepper + turkeytop 15% of all pairsAroma overlapmoderateMentioned together1,636 recipes
Shared aroma: myristicin (spice, warm).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the onion
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (olive, pepper, turkey, sauce, ketchup):
- Capsicumbetter flavor fit
- Tomatobetter flavor fit
- Mustardbetter flavor fit
- Onionthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against olive, pepper, turkey, sauce, ketchup. 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).
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