Sake + Sesame oil
Sake and sesame oil are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.34) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.26). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "East Asian fats oils and spirits" 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 sake and sesame oil — 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 withEast Asian fats oils and spirits
- Cooks withChinese pantry staples and condiments
- Cooks withJapanese and Korean hot pot ingredients
- BlendedEast Asian oils fats and rich proteins
- BlendedEast Asian fish and savory fermented pastes
- Tastes likeEast Asian savory pantry staples
- Tastes likeCalorie-dense nuts oils and fats