Meat Sandwiches

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. Meat + mustardtop 13% of all pairs
   Smell alikelow
   Cooked together855 recipes

   Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

3. Meat + breadtop 14% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together2,924 recipes

   Shared aroma: 2,4-decadienal (seaweed).

4. Bread + mustardtop 16% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together1,484 recipes

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

5. Meat + buttertop 16% of all pairs
   Smell alikemoderate
   Cooked together7,594 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

Tongue or roasted/boiled meat

Provides the savory filling that forms the main body of the sandwich.

Butter

Adds fat and richness to the bread and keeps it from soaking up moisture from the meat.

Thin bread

Holds the filling together and gives the sandwich its structure.

Swap the mustard

The recipe marks mustard as optional. How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, bread, butter):

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

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