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BLT Bacon Bowls

"A crisp bowl made of bacon with lettuce and tomato inside. Great for appetizers or a party. Served room temperature, these are sure to be a hit! "

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 4 ingredients
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Why it works: Butter and cheddar cheese match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 3% of all ingredient pairs, and 2,434 recipes mention both. Both carry delta-dodecalactone, which smells sweet, creamy. The science ↓

The recipe

9 appetizers
Prep25 min
Cook10 min

Ingredients

Contains: milk (auto-detected from the ingredients and method; we can miss things, so check labels)

Directions

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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.

  1. Butter + cheddar cheesetop 3% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together2,434 recipes

    Shared aroma: delta-dodecalactone (sweet, creamy).

  2. Cherry tomato + lettucetop 6% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together9 recipes

    Shared aroma: nonanal (fat, citrus).

  3. Lettuce + cheddar cheesetop 10% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together296 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-isopropyl-3-methoxypyrazine (earthy, pea).

  4. Butter + lettucetop 17% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2,157 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-hexenal (green, leafy).

  5. Cherry tomato + cheddar cheesetop 28% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together2 recipes

    Shared aroma: guaiacol (smoky, sweet).

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

Flavor stand-ins for the cherry tomato

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, lettuce, cheddar cheese):

  1. Avocadobetter flavor fit
  2. Applebetter flavor fit
  3. Pineapplebetter flavor fit
  4. Cherry tomatothe original

Fit is the average pairing score against butter, lettuce, cheddar cheese. 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).