Hot sauce + Pinto bean
Hot sauce and pinto bean 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 "Mediterranean spiced savory ingredients" 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 pinto 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 withMediterranean spiced savory ingredients
- Cooks withMexican and Tex-Mex staples
- Cooks withTex-Mex and Cajun pantry staples
- BlendedSavory Mediterranean seasonings and legumes
- BlendedMexican and Latin American staples
- BlendedSouthern and Cajun seasoning staples
- BlendedMediterranean savory pantry staples
- BlendedAmerican deli and cookout staples