Black pepper + Caper
Black pepper and caper are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.35) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.28). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Savory aromatic vegetables and seasonings" 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 black pepper and caper — 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 aromatic vegetables and seasonings
- Cooks withFiber-rich herbs legumes and spices
- BlendedPungent Mediterranean vegetables and aromatics
- BlendedMediterranean herbs, greens and grains
- BlendedSavory Mediterranean seasonings and legumes
- Tastes likeMediterranean vegetables, legumes and savory herbs
- Tastes likeFiber-rich legumes, grains and herbs
- Tastes likeEastern European hearty pantry staples