Rice vinegar + Sambal oelek
Rice vinegar and sambal oelek are substitute candidates — they share aroma chemistry (chem 0.43) but rarely appear in the same dish. One could stand in for the other in many recipes. Both sit inside the "South Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry" 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 rice vinegar and sambal oelek — 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 withSouth Asian savory spice and vegetable pantry
- Cooks withEast Asian umami sauces and condiments
- Cooks withSavory-sweet pantry staples and fortified beverages
- Cooks withSavory meal components and condiments
- BlendedEast Asian savory pantry staples
- BlendedEast Asian savory sauces and condiments
- BlendedEast and Southeast Asian pantry staples
- Tastes likeEast Asian savory sauces and condiments