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How to Enjoy

Once I have it,
will I actually use it?

That is probably the hesitation when you pick up a seasoning you have never seen. It looks good, clearly. But will it end up forgotten at the back of a cupboard?
This page answers that question, one piece at a time.

A plate of spice curry on the table
01

One plate, the day it arrives.

Settle the first plate and the rest follows on its own. Here are only the things that can be dinner on the day it arrives. Five to ten minutes each, no special ingredients.

Salt the meat, then one shake.

Salt a chicken thigh, add one shake of seasoning, and cook it. By the time it colours, the kitchen smells different. No sauce needed.

This is not about one particular bottle. Dish No.1 to No.5, all five FlareLines — any of them works the same way. The number is not an instruction about the dish; it is a direction of scent. Pork, white fish, fried tofu: nothing about the method changes.

Dish Symphony No.1 to No.5

This is what it actually becomes

A photograph is quicker than a description, so here are three recent recipes.

02

On days with no energy
left for cooking.

Even so, shop-bought food as it comes feels a little bare. On those days, stop at slicing and shaking. No heat at all.

On chilled tofu. On avocado. On plain roasted nuts.

A turn of oil over chilled tofu, a scatter of HOT SPICE Shibikara. CITRUS EMBER on half an avocado. Umakara tossed through plain roasted nuts. Three minutes is enough for any of them.

Dish and FlareLine contain no salt, so the strength is yours to set. What is already in the fridge becomes a dish as it is.

HOT SPICE Savory Heat
03

Even when tastes differ.

Someone cannot take heat. There are children. Someone is watching their salt. Everyone putting up with one person's limits — that is what these are designed to avoid.

HOT SPICE Shibikara Someone cannot take heat

Add the heat on the plate, not in the pan

HOT SPICE is heat added afterwards, over a finished plate. One pan for everyone, and heat only in the bowls that want it. Umakara carries sweetness and toast behind the heat; Shibikara brings the citrus-like tingle of green sanshō.

See Hot Spice →
Spice curry served in a bowl There are children

There is no chilli in the curry

None of the Spice Curry symphonies uses chilli. Not a hot curry — a fragrant one. The same pan can be shared with children, and any adult who wants heat can add it on their own plate.

How to make spice curry: the complete guide →
Dish Symphony, salt-free and additive-free Someone is watching their salt

With no salt in it, the salting stays in your hands

Dish and FlareLine are salt-free, additive-free and 100% plant-based. They add scent only; the salt is yours to decide. The same scent reaches the plate of someone cutting back.

The salt-free table: a guide →
04

Some days there is no cooking at all.

A day with nothing cooked is fine. Some of what we make needs nothing but a mug.

Chai poured into a mug 3 minutes in the microwave

Chai

Milk and a tea bag in a mug, then the microwave. Three minutes, and it is the chai a specialist would serve. For days when you would rather simmer the leaves, there is another way.

Brewing chai: the complete guide →
the cocoa 84g Sweeten it yourself

the cocoa

the cocoa is high cacao with nine spices and a pinch of rock salt. No sugar is added, so the sweetness is yours to set. Dissolve it in milk. Dust it over ice cream. Drop it into a braise.

See the cocoa →
Vetiver tea poured into a glass Caffeine-free

A tea for the night

Vetiver is a grass that sends its roots deep. This is a tea of the scent drawn from that root. It has no caffeine, so it works before bed. The deep blue of the liquor does the switching-off for you.

See Vetiver Tea →
05

Until the bottle is empty.

Is there a jar somewhere in your cupboard you never finished? An Inspice bottle is less likely to end up there, because the same one works in Japanese, Western and Chinese cooking alike.

A week with Dish No.3, for instance

Taiwanese braised pork rice on Monday. Mackerel simmered in miso on Wednesday. Something fried at the weekend. All from the same bottle. There is no “for curry” shelf and “for Chinese” shelf, so the next time comes round quickly.

Dish Symphony No.3

Once you are used to it, layer them

If one bottle finishing a dish is the basic move, layering is the advanced one. Hot Spice heat over the savour of Dish. The scent of Dish over the warmth of FlareLine. The same recipe becomes another plate the moment they meet. We have not decided what is correct. The kitchen is the nearest laboratory you have.

FlareLine GREEN NUDGE

Start from what is in the fridge

Starting from “this is left over” is probably more realistic than “what shall I cook”. Choose an ingredient and you get the recipes that use it, together with the seasonings they call for.

06

What you give is time.

What you give is not a product but someone's time. Three minutes in the microwave and a pause. A weekend around a pot. The scent that rises at an everyday table. Hand them over, one at a time.

A box of CHAInstant, opened
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Shall we choose your first one?

For a first bottle, Dish Symphony (from ¥1,728). To start with a drink, CHAInstant (from ¥350 a cup). To try before committing, the FlareLine Trial Pack.

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