Doughnut + Pretzel
Doughnut and pretzel are weakly related — neither commonly paired in recipes nor close in aroma chemistry. They can be combined creatively, but there's no strong evidence the pairing is established. Both sit inside the "Grain-based breads and doughs" 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 doughnut and pretzel — 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 withGrain-based breads and doughs
- Cooks withSweet confections and dessert spirits
- BlendedBreads, pastas and grain products
- BlendedAsian-inflected sweet confections and stabilizers
- BlendedSweet confections and dessert ingredients
- BlendedSweet baked dessert bases
- BlendedSweet beverages and dessert confections
- Tastes likeWheat flours and baked grain products