Cayenne pepper + Horseradish
Cayenne pepper and horseradish are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.33) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.28). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean savory herbs and cheeses" 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 cayenne pepper and horseradish — 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 savory herbs and cheeses
- Cooks withSavory condiments and spiced sauces
- Cooks withFiber-rich herbs legumes and spices
- Cooks withPungent chiles and warm spices
- Cooks withMediterranean spiced savory ingredients
- BlendedPungent Mediterranean vegetables and aromatics
- BlendedSpicy condiments and sweet-tangy sauces
- BlendedSavory pepper spice blends