Plum wine + Soju
Plum wine and soju are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.33) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.22). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "Processed convenience pantry products" 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 plum wine and soju — 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 withProcessed convenience pantry products
- Cooks withEast Asian fats oils and spirits
- Cooks withTeas and East-Asian beverages
- Cooks withSweet dessert and confection bases
- Cooks withEast and Southeast Asian hot pot ingredients
- BlendedEast-Asian processed sweets and beverages
- BlendedAsian teas wines and plant beverages
- Tastes likeChinese braising aromatics and condiments