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Carolina BBQ Pork Sauce

"In North Carolina, barbeque sauce is made with a vinegar base and ground red pepper. Pork is the meat of choice."

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Carolina BBQ Pork Sauce

Why it works: Ketchup and sugar match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 8% of all ingredient pairs, and 260 recipes mention both. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

Carolina BBQ Pork Sauce

4 cups
Prep10 min
Cook10 min

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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. Ketchup + sugartop 8% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapstrong
    Mentioned together260 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Vinegar + peppertop 14% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together27,814 recipes

    Shared aroma: 4'-methylacetophenone (bitter almond).

  3. Vinegar + sugartop 15% of all pairs
    Aroma overlapmoderate
    Mentioned together20,806 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-damascenone (apple, rose).

  4. Vinegar + ketchuptop 21% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together737 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Ketchup + peppertop 24% of all pairs
    Aroma overlaplow
    Mentioned together3,207 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

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