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Build menus with chemistry on your side

Molecular substitutes, novel pairings grounded in compound chemistry, and pantry-driven trios — not Google's "use canned peaches" suggestions.

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Ingredients
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Curated recipes
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Scored pairings
5,240
Flavor compounds

Three things chefs actually use this for

Concrete kitchen workflows — each one a tool you can run right now.

Workflow 1

Substituting an out-of-season or unavailable ingredient

A February menu calls for fresh peach. Google says “use canned.” The molecular engine ranks substitutes by compound overlap — so you swap into apricot, nectarine, or plum and keep the flavor architecture intact.

Why it matters: Seasonality, allergies, supply gaps. Same dish, different season — without losing the dish.

Example output · /api/sub?ingredient=peach
  1. apricot0.61 similarity · 47 shared compounds
  2. nectarine0.58 · 44 shared
  3. plum0.52 · 39 shared
  4. mango0.47 · 35 shared
  5. papaya0.41 · 31 shared
Open Substitute Finder →
Workflow 2

Tasting-menu pairings you couldn’t have guessed

Filter for pairings with high compound overlap but low recipe co-occurrence — ingredients that share a lot of volatiles but almost nobody puts together. That’s where the “why did this work” courses come from.

Why it matters: Trends rotate, chemistry doesn’t. Surfaces grounded surprise instead of contrived novelty.

Example output · /api/novel?ingredients=strawberry
  1. strawberry × coriander seedcomp 0.58 / recipe 0.04
  2. strawberry × smoked paprikacomp 0.52 / recipe 0.07
  3. strawberry × lapsang souchongcomp 0.49 / recipe 0.03
  4. strawberry × pink peppercorncomp 0.45 / recipe 0.06
Open Pair Finder →
Workflow 3

Pantry-driven specials

Drop in 4–8 ingredients you have on the line right now. The engine returns trios that score well together as a dish, plus the one strategic next-buy that would unlock the most additional pairings.

Why it matters: Reduce waste, build specials around inventory, find what to buy that multiplies what you already have.

Example output · /api/pantry?ingredients=miso,butter,brown_sugar,lemon
Top trios
  1. miso + butter + brown sugar0.74
  2. butter + brown sugar + lemon0.68
Strategic buy-next
ginger — unlocks 14 new high-score trios with what you already have.
Open Pantry Mode →

What’s in here for you

857 ingredients across every major cuisine
Including hard-to-source aromatics — not just supermarket basics.
612,557 curated recipes you can browse
Search by ingredient, scale yields, copy ingredient lines straight to your menu writing.
9-pill dietary filter across every tool
Vegan, gluten-free, kosher, halal, allergen-aware — persists across the session.
Cooking-state aware
Toggle raw vs roasted vs smoked — the compound profile shifts and the pairings shift with it.
Recipe Remix — paste a URL, get molecular subs
Drop in a recipe link from anywhere, see ingredient swaps ranked by compound similarity.
Mood Match for descriptor-driven inspiration
Type “bright + smoky” or “umami forward” — rank ingredients by aroma-profile match.

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  • ✓ Top 5 pairing results per query
  • ✓ All 612,557 curated recipes
  • ✓ Substitute, Pantry, Pair, Mood tools
  • ✓ Dietary filters & cooking-state toggles
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  • ✓ Full top-N (no top-5 cap)
  • ✓ Recipe Remix (URL → molecular subs)
  • ✓ CSV exports from every tool
  • ✓ Per-compound detail (OAV, thresholds, key-aroma flags)
  • ✓ Saved analyses on your account
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No signup. Type any ingredient you’d normally cook with and see what the engine surfaces.

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