Bacon + Hot sauce
Bacon and hot sauce are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.41) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "Savory deli cheeses and condiments" mode.
What do these scores mean?
Cooks-with (technical name: Cooc) measures how often the two ingredients appear in the same dish across 4M recipes. Tastes-like (Chem) measures how much aroma chemistry they share via FlavorDB. Blended (Core) combines both. All are cosine similarities in 300-D space — practical ranges differ per axis, so see the per-row context to read them.
Ingredients that go well with both bacon and hot sauce — candidates for completing the dish.
How this is ranked
Each candidate scores against both ingredients in the recipe co-occurrence embedding. We sort by the worse of the two scores, so the result fits the weaker partner — not just one of them.
Clusters that contain both ingredients — click through to see everything in the mode.
- Cooks withSavory deli cheeses and condiments
- Cooks withMediterranean spiced savory ingredients
- BlendedSouthern and Cajun seasoning staples
- BlendedTex-Mex and Cajun comfort staples
- Tastes likeProcessed deli meats cheeses and condiments
- Tastes likeSpicy seasoning blends and hearty sausages
- Tastes likeAmerican comfort food condiments and seasonings
- Tastes likeMediterranean savory pantry staples