Sichuan peppercorn + Wood ear mushroom
Sichuan peppercorn and wood ear mushroom are a complementary pair — they appear together in recipes often (cooc 0.36) despite differing aroma chemistry (chem 0.34). The combination works through contrast rather than similarity. Both sit inside the "East Asian vegetables and aromatics" 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 sichuan peppercorn and wood ear mushroom — 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 vegetables and aromatics
- Cooks withEast Asian savory pantry staples
- Cooks withEast-Asian aromatic spices and greens
- Cooks withEast Asian high-fiber legumes and roots
- Cooks withChinese pantry staples
- BlendedChinese pantry staples and freshwater fish
- Tastes likeEast-Asian grains, seeds, and roots
- Tastes likeChinese hot pot ingredients