Why it works: Egg and butter 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 ↓
Omelet, with Tomatoes
Ingredients
Directions
Prepare a plain omelet.
Just before folding the omelet, place the boiled and seasoned tomatoes in the center.
Fold the omelet over the tomatoes.
Serve with tomato sauce poured around the omelet.
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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Egg + buttertop 17% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together118,967 recipes
Shared aroma: decanal (soap, orange peel).
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Tomato + buttertop 22% of all pairsSmell alikemoderateCooked together6,918 recipes
Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).
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Tomato + eggtop 34% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together5,890 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-nonenal (fatty, green).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the tomato
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (egg, butter):
- Asparagusfits better
- Chivefits better
- Leekfits better
- Tomatothe original
Fit is the average pairing score against egg, butter. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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