Name: Darrels Home Sloppy Joes Recipe
Yield: 10 servings
Ingredients: 1 pd Ground meat,1/4 cup ketchup,1 cup barbecue sauce,1 onion chopped,1 green bell pepper,chopped,1 red bell pepper,chopped,1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar,2 tablespoons brown sugar,2 packages sloppy joe mix,1/2 cup of water.; 1/2 teaspoon salt.

Why it works: Ketchup and sauce match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and 1,099 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Darrels Home Sloppy Joes Recipe

10 servings

Ingredients

1 pd Ground meat,1/4 cup ketchup,1 cup barbecue sauce,1 onion chopped,1 green bell pepper,chopped,1 red bell pepper,chopped,1 teaspoon distilled white vinegar,2 tablespoons brown sugar,2 packages sloppy joe mix,1/2 cup of water.
1/2 teaspoon salt.

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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.

Ketchup + saucetop 1% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together1,099 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Ketchup + sugartop 8% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together260 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Onion + peppertop 11% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together68,474 recipes

Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).
Sauce + sugartop 13% of all pairs

Aroma overlapstrong

Mentioned together5,147 recipes

Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
Onion + vinegartop 14% of all pairs

Aroma overlapmoderate

Mentioned together18,226 recipes

Shared aroma: acetic acid (sour, vinegar).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (meat, ketchup, sauce, pepper, vinegar, sugar):

Capsicumbetter flavor fit
Mustardbetter flavor fit
Horseradishbetter flavor fit
Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against meat, ketchup, sauce, pepper, vinegar, sugar. 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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