Bolognese sauce + Meat extract
Bolognese sauce and meat extract are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.45) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean processed cheeses and cured meats" 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 bolognese sauce and meat extract — 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 withMediterranean processed cheeses and cured meats
- Cooks withPungent sauces vinegars and condiments
- Cooks withMediterranean cheeses, herbs & savory staples
- Cooks withMediterranean savory vinaigrettes and pungent accents
- BlendedPrepared sauces vinegars and condiments
- BlendedMediterranean savory vegetable stews
- BlendedMediterranean savory pantry staples
- BlendedMediterranean and Latin pantry specialties