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Cheehu Cocktail Recipe

Most classic cocktails claiming allegiance to the Aloha State, like the Mai Tai, seem to have coconut or pineapple involved. This one isn't classic but rather...

By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Cheehu Cocktail Recipe

Why it works: Rum and guava work together. They rank in the top 12% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 11 recipes. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓

Cheehu Cocktail Recipe

2 drinks

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By chow. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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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.

  1. Rum + guavatop 12% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together11 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).

  2. Rum + syruptop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together367 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  3. Guava + syruptop 31% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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

Swap the guava

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (rum, syrup):

  1. Vanillafits better
  2. Pineapplefits better
  3. Bananafits better
  4. Guavathe original

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