Why it works: Gin 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 94 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓
Gin and It Recipe
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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.
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Gin + vermouthtop 1% of all pairsSmell alikestrongCooked together94 recipes
Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).
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Gin + orangetop 23% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together158 recipes
Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).
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Vermouth + orangetop 25% of all pairsSmell alikelowCooked together83 recipes
Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
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How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (gin, vermouth):
- Lemonfits better
- Limefits better
- Orangethe original
- Cherryfits about as well
Fit is the average pairing score against gin, vermouth. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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