Pair
Pairing
Complementary

Chutney + Stilton cheese

Chutney and stilton cheese are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.30) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.20). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Mediterranean savory vinaigrettes and pungent accents" mode.

Pairing scores
Cooks withstrong signal
0.30
Tastes likeweak signal
0.20
Blendedmoderate signal
0.41
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.

Good additions to this pair

Ingredients that go well with both chutney and stilton cheese — 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.