Birds eye chili + Fermented black bean
Birds eye chili and fermented black bean pair classically — they're cooked together often and share aroma chemistry, so the combination is both familiar and chemically coherent. 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 birds eye chili and fermented black bean — 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 Asian soy and tofu pantry
- BlendedEast Asian savory pantry staples
- BlendedEast Asian chili peppers and aromatics
- BlendedEast-Asian pungent vegetables and aromatics
- BlendedEast Asian soy and spice pantry