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Nacho Bar

By whatsgabycooking · From Open Recipes · 15 ingredients
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Why it works: Cheese and cheddar cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 984 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

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

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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. Cheese + cheddar cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together984 recipes

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

  2. Cheddar cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,434 recipes

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

  3. Cheese + buttertop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together7,955 recipes

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

  4. Cheddar cheese + beanstop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together525 recipes

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

  5. Beans + oniontop 5% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together5,241 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 lime

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cheese, cheddar cheese, sauce, beans, onion, butter, flour):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Applebetter flavor fit
  3. Grapebetter flavor fit
  4. Limethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cheese, cheddar cheese, sauce, beans, onion, butter, flour. 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).