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Crabmeat Roll-Ups

"This is an easy and delicious spread, and yet another way to use tortillas for an appetizer. The mixture can also be used without the tortillas as a spread on crackers."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 7 ingredients
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Crabmeat Roll-Ups

Why it works: Cream cheese and swiss cheese share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 54 recipes. Both carry ethyl 2-methylbutyrate, which smells fruity, apple. The science ↓

Crabmeat Roll-Ups

8 servings
Prep10 min

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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.

  1. Cream cheese + swiss cheesetop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together54 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl 2-methylbutyrate (fruity, apple).

  2. Swiss cheese + oniontop 16% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together436 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethyl butyrate (apple, fruity).

  3. Onion + flourtop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together32,460 recipes

    Shared aroma: isobutyraldehyde (malty, green).

  4. Sauce + flourtop 18% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together8,078 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  5. Sauce + oniontop 19% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together10,474 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Sauce and onion barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 10,474 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

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 (cream cheese, sauce, swiss cheese, flour):

  1. Welsh onionbetter flavor fit
  2. Chivebetter flavor fit
  3. Mustardbetter flavor fit
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cream cheese, sauce, swiss cheese, flour. 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).