Why it works: Butter and egg are a kitchen classic. They rank in the top 17% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 118,967 recipes. Both carry decanal, which smells soap, orange peel. The science ↓
French Bean Omelette
Ingredients
Directions
Heat the cooked French beans in butter over medium heat.
Whisk the eggs in a bowl and pour them into a heated non-stick skillet.
Cook the omelette until set, then place the heated beans in the center.
Fold the omelette over the beans and serve immediately.
Transcribed from a scanned cookbook and modernised for today's kitchens. Where the book gave no heat or time, or said "a moderate oven", the temperatures and times here may be modern equivalents rather than the book's own figures.
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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.
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Butter + eggtop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together118,967 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Beans + buttertop 19% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,799 recipes
Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).
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Beans + eggtop 32% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together2,030 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
Swap the beans
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, egg):
- Pecansfits better
- Almondfits better
- Filbertfits better
- Beansthe original
Fit is the average pairing score against butter, egg. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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