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Hells Afire Bean Soup

A spicy bean soup made with canned baked beans, tomato soup, mustard powder, tabasco, green chili, salt, and pepper.

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Why it works: Beans and tomato match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,711 recipes mention both. Both carry 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine, which smells earthy, pea. The science ↓

The recipe

Time2 minutes

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare

  1. Cook beans and soup separately (instructions on the back of cans).

Make the soup

  1. Add 13 shakes of tabasco to soup and stir.

  2. Add 1/2 teaspoon of mustard powder to soup.

  3. Add beans to soup and stir.

  4. Finely chop the green chili pepper and add to the bean soup.

  5. Add 20 salt shakes and 8 pepper shakes.

  6. Stir for 1 minute.

  7. Bring to the boil on the stove.

  8. Let simmer for 2 minutes and eat.

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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. Beans + tomatotop 2% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,711 recipes

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

  2. Tomato + peppertop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together17,913 recipes

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

  3. Beans + mustardtop 4% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together852 recipes

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

  4. Mustard + peppertop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together15,427 recipes

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

  5. Mustard + tomatotop 7% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,482 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

What each ingredient does

Canned baked beans
Provide the bulk and body of the soup, with starch that thickens it as it heats.
Canned tomato soup
Forms the liquid base and adds acidity and sweetness that carry the other flavours.
Mustard powder
Adds a sharp, pungent heat that deepens the savoury flavour of the tomato base.
Tabasco
Adds vinegar-based acidity and capsaicin heat that brightens the soup.

Flavor stand-ins for the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (beans, tomato, pepper):

  1. Capsicumbetter flavor fit
  2. Carrotbetter flavor fit
  3. Potatobetter flavor fit
  4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against beans, tomato, pepper. 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).

“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.

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