Name: Dirty Martini
Ingredients: 62.5ml Gin; Dash of Dry Vermouth; Dash of Olive Brine (Water in Olive Jar)

Why it works: Gin and vermouth share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 94 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Dirty Martini

Ingredients

62.5ml Gin
Dash of Dry Vermouth
Dash of Olive Brine (Water in Olive Jar)

Directions

Shake the ingredients.
Garnish with an olive.

Recipe from the Recipes Wiki (Fandom).

Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

Gin + vermouthtop 1% of all pairs

Smell alikestrong

Cooked together94 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Vermouth + olivetop 15% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together168 recipes

Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Gin + olivetop 29% of all pairs

Smell alikelow

Cooked together48 recipes

Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

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

What each ingredient does

Gin: Provides the spirit base and the main flavour of the drink.
Dry vermouth: Adds a light herbal, aromatic note that balances the gin.
Olive brine: Adds saltiness and savoury, slightly briny flavour to the drink.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.