Fiddlehead fern + Wood ear mushroom
Fiddlehead fern and wood ear mushroom are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.40) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "East Asian vegetables and aromatics" 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 fiddlehead fern and wood ear mushroom — 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 withEast Asian vegetables and aromatics
- Cooks withEast Asian savory pantry staples
- Cooks withEast-Asian aromatic spices and greens
- Cooks withChinese pantry vegetables and umami staples
- BlendedEast Asian vegetables and mild sweet botanicals
- BlendedEast Asian savory vegetables and mushrooms
- BlendedEast Asian herbal vegetables and tonics
- BlendedEast-Asian stir-fry vegetables