A flavor notebook · iOS and Android
We're starting with 167 ingredients and 1,880 pairings, each with a written note, and more are on the way. Tap an ingredient to hold it, re-roll the rest, keep the mix.
4 ingredients · 0 pairings
This is where we're starting. More ingredients, pairings and families are on the way.
Tap Surprise me, or type an ingredient you have. You start from one ingredient or from nothing at all.
Your mix appears as a small graph. Tap any line between two ingredients to read why they belong together.
Tap an ingredient to hold it, then re-roll the rest. Grow from here, or take one out.
Save the mix to your notebook, or make a recipe from it and cook it step by step.
Read the note
A classic combination, popular as a cold remedy since honey soothes the throat while lemon's vitamin C brightens the flavor and cuts the sweetness (a hot toddy adds whisky or eau de vie to the mix).
It also appears in baking, such as madeleines flavored with lemon zest and honey, lemon blossom or chestnut honey both work well.
Make a recipe
Every ingredient in your mix goes in. The recipe may add a few more, plus pantry staples.
Dark chocolate pots with ancho, orange and coffee
Cook mode
Start a timer for any step that needs one, then move on with Next step. Each step shows which of your ingredients it uses.
Cooked your way
Applied to generated recipes. Mixes still show everything unless you ignore it.
Your notebook
Without an account, your notebook lives only on this phone. Sign in with Apple or Google to sync it.
Take it out?
Ignored ingredients never appear in a mix or a recipe.
Never show me anchovy
English and Español
Changes ingredient names, flavor families and notes.
Written notes on why two things belong together, from the app's own library.
One of the classic globally recognized flavor pairings: ripening chiles develop sweet, fruity notes that complement bitter chocolate, especially once dried into varieties like mulato and ancho, prized for their inherently chocolatey character.
Chocolate's fat also tempers chile heat, as in Mexican mole, a broad category of sauce that, in its "red" or "black" forms, combines dried chiles and chocolate with dried fruit, bread, nuts, tomato, onion, garlic, seeds, herbs, spices and stock into a complex sweet-savory sauce, traditionally served over browned or roasted meat. Mexican chocolate, coarse and often spiced with cinnamon and vanilla, can be substituted with a third as much unsweetened cocoa powder. The combination also appears in spice blends of cocoa, chipotle and paprika for chili con carne or baked goods.
Despite the British tradition of a vinegary mint sauce with lamb, mint's cleansing quality genuinely complements lamb's herbal affinities and helps offset its stronger, gamier notes.
Examples include lamb and mint ravioli, sauce paloise (a Béarnaise variant using mint instead of tarragon), and Azerbaijani dusbara, a minted soup with tiny lamb-filled dumplings.
Lime's sharpness cuts through coconut's heavy sweetness, much as lime frosting balances a coconut cake.
Fresh coconut and lime juice can make pineapple taste sweeter and juicier, and the same combination appears with fish, both cooked and raw, notably in ceviche (see Lime & White Fish). In India, shredded fresh coconut is mixed with lime juice, crushed garlic and chiles and served alongside curry.
A classic combination, popular as a cold remedy since honey soothes the throat while lemon's vitamin C brightens the flavor and cuts the sweetness (a hot toddy adds whisky or eau de vie to the mix).
It also appears in baking, such as madeleines flavored with lemon zest and honey, lemon blossom or chestnut honey both work well.
A pairing central to Mexican dishes such as lime-laced guacamole and salsa served alongside grilled steak burritos.
On preventing browning, leaving the avocado pit in finished guacamole is a common but largely ineffective trick.
A classic pairing: cinnamon's sweet, woody warmth softens apple's sharpness, though it's easy to overdo and should be used with a light hand.
Every family has a two-letter code, so color is never the only thing telling them apart. The number is how many ingredients it holds; each shows a few of the best-connected. This is the starting library, and it will keep growing.
Mixes, pairings and the whole library.
Sign in and get 5 recipes a week. They refill every Monday.
100 bowls a month for €3.99, or €29.99 a year with a 7-day trial. Bowl bundles (from €1.99, never expire) keep you going if you use them up. Prices may vary by country.
For iOS and Android, in English and Español.