Smelt + Wolffish
Smelt and wolffish 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 "Savory cheeses, cured meats and legumes" 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 smelt and wolffish — 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 withSavory cheeses, cured meats and legumes
- Cooks withHearty American savory mains and seasonings
- BlendedLean fish and seafood proteins
- BlendedMiddle Eastern and Eurasian spice blends
- Tastes likeLean high-protein fish and game
- Tastes likeEastern European hearty pantry staples
- Tastes likeSavory proteins and cheeses
- Tastes likeAmerican comfort foods and freshwater fish