Kidney bean + Liquid smoke
Kidney bean and liquid smoke 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 "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 kidney bean and liquid smoke — 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
- BlendedSouthern and Cajun seasoning staples
- BlendedMediterranean savory pantry staples
- BlendedSavory vinegars, cheeses and condiments
- BlendedAmerican deli and cookout staples
- Tastes likeSpicy seasoning blends and hearty sausages
- Tastes likeHearty savory Mediterranean meats and staples