Searching by ingredient is faster | Let the fridge decide dinner

Everyone has days when dinner refuses to decide itself. On those days, try looking for a recipe starting from what is already in the fridge. The list narrows to things you can actually cook tonight, and you meet dishes you have never made with the ingredients you already own.

"What shall I make" asks a lot of you

Start from the name of a dish and the possibilities are endless. Curry sounds good. So does a stir-fry. So do noodles. Any number of good things come to mind, and that is exactly why settling on one is hard.

Then you finally decide, open the fridge, and find something missing. Go out and buy it, or switch to a different dish. The more tired you are, the heavier that round trip feels.

Start from the fridge and it narrows — and surprises you

Try reversing the order. What is in the fridge is finite. Decide on pork and aubergine first, then look for "things I can make from these two", and the list narrows to what you can cook tonight. Because you started from what you have, you barely need to buy anything.

And there is a second pleasure in searching this way: you meet combinations you would never have thought of. The same pork and aubergine turn into a plate you have never seen. A search meant to settle dinner becomes the doorway to a small experiment.

Inspice recipe search runs on real names

The Inspice recipe search is built for exactly this reverse lookup.

The ingredient options are generated straight from the ingredient lists of the recipes themselves. Not shelf labels like "meat" or "vegetables", but chicken thigh, aubergine, tinned tomatoes — the real names. So whatever you pick is guaranteed to appear in the ingredient list of the recipes that come back.

You can choose two or more. Pick pork and aubergine and only recipes that use both remain. The closer you get to the actual contents of your fridge, the closer the answer gets to tonight's plate.

And the recipes keep growing, day by day, out of the Kanazawa workshop. When a new recipe goes in, the ingredient options grow from its list automatically. A combination that was not there today may be waiting next week.

This way of searching is tied to how the seasonings are designed. Dish and FlareLine are salt-free, additive-free and 100% plant-based. Because the saltiness is not fixed for you, whatever ingredient you start from, the strength of the seasoning stays in your own hands at the table. Searching from ingredients and designing without salt are two sides of the same idea.

Frequently asked questions

Q. How do I find recipes from what is in my fridge?
A. Choose ingredients in the Inspice recipe search. Pick two or more and it narrows to recipes that use all of them. The ingredient list on the home page leads into the same search.

Q. How many ingredients can I choose from?
A. The options are generated automatically from the ingredient lists of the recipes, and they grow every time a recipe is added. The most frequently used ingredients appear first.

Q. Is the ingredient I picked always used in the recipes that come back?
A. Yes. The options are built from the ingredient lists themselves, so recipes that merely sound similar never slip in.