Hot sauce + Kidney bean
Hot sauce and kidney bean pair classically — they're cooked together often and share aroma chemistry, so the combination is both familiar and chemically coherent. Both sit inside the "Mexican and Tex-Mex staples" 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 hot sauce and kidney bean — 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 withMexican and Tex-Mex staples
- Cooks withTex-Mex and Cajun pantry staples
- BlendedMexican and Latin American staples
- BlendedSouthern and Cajun seasoning staples
- BlendedMediterranean savory pantry staples
- BlendedSavory vinegars, cheeses and condiments
- BlendedAmerican deli and cookout staples
- BlendedTex-Mex and Cajun comfort staples