Start with what’s already in your kitchen. Pick a few ingredients and we’ll rank the recipes you can cook right now — and show you exactly what’s missing when you’re one ingredient away.
Cook With What You Have
Search or choose the ingredients in your kitchen. Add more than one for better matches.
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How matching works
Every recipe in the matcher is broken into its ingredients, and each ingredient has a job:
- Core — the dish depends on it. A missing core ingredient changes what the dish is.
- Important — strongly shapes the result, but the dish survives without it.
- Optional & garnish — nice to have; they barely move your score.
- Pantry basics — salt, oil, water and the like. We never list them as missing.
What the labels mean
- Ready to Cook — you have every core and important ingredient. Nothing to buy.
- One Ingredient Away — exactly one core or important ingredient is missing; the card names it.
- More Ideas — partial matches, closest first.
The percentage on a card is a weighted coverage score: half of it is core-ingredient coverage, with smaller weights for important ingredients and for how much of your selection the recipe actually uses — and a steep penalty when a core ingredient is missing. It is a matching score, not a rating of the recipe.
Substitutes
When a card shows a missing ingredient, check the ingredient’s own page before swapping anything in. Substitutions here are reviewed per ingredient and per context — what works in a broth may not work in a marinade. If we don’t have a reviewed substitute for your situation, we’d rather say so than guess.