Why it works: Blue cheese and white wine share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 5% of all ingredient pairs, and 20 recipes mention both. Both carry ethyl pentanoate, which smells yeast, fruit. The science ↓
The recipe
Serves 6-8Ingredients
Contains: milk, wheat (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)
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The flavor team
The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much aroma chemistry they share, and how many recipes mention both.
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Blue cheese + white winetop 5% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together20 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl pentanoate (yeast, fruit).
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White wine + appletop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together357 recipes
Shared aroma: 2-isobutyl-3-methoxypyrazine (green bell pepper, earthy).
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Butter + white winetop 3% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together5,039 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl octanoate (fruity, wine).
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Olive + chickentop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together10,796 recipes
Shared aroma: acetic acid hexyl ester (sweet, green).
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Blue cheese + appletop 4% of all pairsAroma overlapstrongMentioned together40 recipes
Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Flavor stand-ins for the apple
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (veal, blue cheese, butter, olive, flour, white wine, chicken):
- Grapebetter flavor fit
- Applethe original
- Lemonabout as good a flavor fit
- Pearabout as good a flavor fit
Fit is the average pairing score against veal, blue cheese, butter, olive, flour, white wine, chicken. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes. This compares flavor only: it does not check the job the ingredient does in the dish (bulk, moisture, acidity, structure).
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