Potato Chops

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.

1. Milk + potatotop 9% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together3,611 recipes

   Shared aroma: (e,z)-2,6-nonadienal (cucumber, melon).

2. Flour + milktop 14% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together78,219 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

3. Flour + potatotop 15% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together5,355 recipes

   Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

4. Mutton + potatotop 19% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together293 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).

5. Mutton + milktop 19% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together814 recipes

   Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

Flour and milk barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 78,219 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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

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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (mutton, flour, milk):

1. Arrowrootfits about as well
2. Leekfits about as well
3. Potatothe original
4. Shallotfits about as well

Fit is the average pairing score against mutton, flour, milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.