Substitution & Experimental Combos
Find what's closest to an ingredient — either as a direct substitute (recipe-context mode)
or as an unexpected chemistry-compatible pairing (chemistry mode).
Use the model toggle to switch between spaces.
Try:
chicken
chocolate
olive_oil
tomato
miso
soy_sauce
vanilla
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Enter an ingredient above to find substitutes and experimental combinations
Cuisine Compass
SLERP direction arithmetic — start from an ingredient and rotate it toward a cuisine pole.
A small angle gives a gentle suggestion; 60–80° gives dramatic cuisine-shift ideas.
Try:
rice → South Asian
butter → French
chicken → Mexican
pasta → Japanese
potato → Middle Eastern
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Pick an ingredient and a cuisine to explore what it could become
Flavour Profile
Discover the aroma and flavour clusters (modes) an ingredient belongs to.
Factor modes are derived from the embedding geometry; supervised modes are labelled by cuisine/flavour category.
Try:
chocolate
truffle
lemon
fish_sauce
cinnamon
coffee
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Enter an ingredient to see its flavour and aroma profile
Ingredient Graph
Force-directed neighbourhood map. The centre ingredient pulls its closest companions;
cross-edges show which neighbours are also similar to each other — revealing natural clusters.
Click any node to re-root the graph there.
Try:
truffle
chocolate
kimchi
miso
vanilla
saffron
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Enter an ingredient to explore its flavour neighbourhood
Recipe Lab
Build a basket of ingredients and analyse coherence, get suggestions,
discover cuisine affinity, or find a surprising chemistry-compatible addition.