Sausage Toast

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. Bread + buttertop 7% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together27,232 recipes

   Shared aroma: delta-decalactone (sweet, creamy).

2. Parmesan cheese + buttertop 9% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together4,163 recipes

   Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

3. Parmesan cheese + breadtop 15% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together577 recipes

   Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

4. Mustard + breadtop 16% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,484 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2-acetyl-1-pyrroline (popcorn, roasted).

5. Parmesan cheese + mustardtop 17% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together545 recipes

   Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

What each ingredient does

Sausages

Provide the savoury meat base that the topping is built on.

Parmesan cheese

Adds salty, savoury flavour and helps the topping bind and brown slightly.

Mixed mustard

Adds sharpness that cuts through the richness of the sausage and cheese.

Bread

Forms the crisp, buttered base that holds the topping.

Swap the mustard

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (parmesan cheese, bread, butter):

1. Tomatofits better
2. Asparagusfits better
3. Potatofits better
4. Mustardthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against parmesan cheese, bread, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.