Egg yolk + Vanilla
Egg yolk and vanilla are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.36) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.30). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Rich confections nuts and spirits" 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 egg yolk and vanilla — 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 withRich confections nuts and spirits
- Cooks withSweet fruits and dessert baking ingredients
- Cooks withPastry and confection components
- BlendedRich nuts, fats, and spirits
- BlendedSweet baking and fruit confections
- Tastes likeSpirits, wines and indulgent confections
- Tastes likeConfectionery and pastry components