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Easy Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

Here is an easy, no-fuss recipe for pulled pork that you can make ahead in your slow cooker or crockpot.

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Easy Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

Why it works: Pepper and thyme are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 4% of all ingredient pairs, and 11,585 recipes mention both. Both carry beta-phellandrene, which smells minty, terpene. The science ↓

Easy Slow Cooker Pulled Pork

Serves 8
Prep10 min
Cook8 hr

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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. Pepper + thymetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,585 recipes

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

  2. Thyme + olivetop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together4,948 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl 2-methylbutyrate (apple, fatty).

  3. Thyme + oniontop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together11,171 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Olive + oniontop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together29,779 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

  5. Thyme + red winetop 9% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together749 recipes

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

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 (pepper, thyme, red wine, vinegar, honey, olive, pork):

  1. Tomatobetter flavor fit
  2. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  3. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against pepper, thyme, red wine, vinegar, honey, olive, pork. 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).