Bean sprout + Birds eye chili
Bean sprout and birds eye chili are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.33) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.39). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "East Asian savory pantry staples" 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 bean sprout and birds eye chili — 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 withEast Asian savory pantry staples
- Cooks withEast Asian aromatic vegetables and mushrooms
- Cooks withEast-Asian mushrooms and aromatics
- Cooks withEast and Southeast Asian stir-fry staples
- Cooks withSoutheast Asian wok aromatics
- Cooks withEast and Southeast Asian hot pot ingredients
- BlendedEast Asian savory pantry staples
- BlendedEast Asian chili peppers and aromatics