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Hot Voodoo Love Recipe

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By chow · From Open Recipes · 6 ingredients
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Why it works: Vodka and vermouth share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Hot Voodoo Love Recipe

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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. Vodka + vermouthtop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Horseradish + lemontop 9% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,155 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Horseradish + vodkatop 13% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together47 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  4. Lemon + tangerinetop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together61 recipes

    Shared aroma: eucalyptol (eucalyptus, herbal).

  5. Vermouth + lemontop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together154 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

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

Swap the tangerine

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (horseradish, vodka, vermouth, lemon):

  1. Limefits better
  2. Orangefits better
  3. Cherryfits better
  4. Tangerinethe original

Fit is the average pairing score against horseradish, vodka, vermouth, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.