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Innovation Recipes

Exactly how do I do it?

A charred half orange beside a glass beaker of dark, bubbling cola with curls of orange peel.

Burnt Orange Cola

A dark, spiced, complex cola made from nothing but oranges and agave — the orange is burned until its citrus identity is gone, then rebuilt through Maillard and caramelization into a nectar the brain reads as cola.

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A frozen banana half dusted in frost, its cut face bubbling into dark amber caramel with drops flying off.

Cold Maillard Reaction

Develop toasted, bready Maillard character in milk without heat — using time and alkalinity as the levers instead of a stove.

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Blackcurrants, halved berries, leaves and white blossoms caught in a swirling splash of deep wine-red liquid.

Zero-Proof Cassis Liqueur

A non-alcoholic crème de cassis rebuilt from black olives, hibiscus and vegetable glycerin — blackcurrant's earthy, tannic, silky structure without blackcurrant or alcohol.

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770ingredients profiled

11,500documented pairings

17innovation recipes

For finding what goes with what.

Search any of 770 ingredients and see its aroma family, its compounds and 11,500 documented pairings laid out as one living wheel — so the next combination comes from evidence, not guesswork.

For the problems at the bar.

Describe what you're trying to solve — a foam without egg, clarity without agar, citrus without citrus — and get documented strategies back, each opening into a full process.

For designing a drink on purpose.

Balance base, acidity, sweetness and bitterness on the MODELO 10 notebook and generate a full creative direction and development guide — then save it straight into your lab.

For the exact how.

17 complete, reproducible protocols — the science, an interactive tool, the ratios, the troubleshooting and the references behind each result.

For everything you discover.

Every cocktail you design and every experiment you log lives here — versioned, photographed and searchable, so your best work never lives only in a notebook again.

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Flavor Lab

Passion fruit

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banana/flavor-lab

I need the brightness of lemon juice in a drink, but without any lemons. What are my options?

2 documented strategies found

False Lemon Juice

Reproduces lemon juice's bright acidity and citrus aroma from a food-acid blend and a single aromatic seed — no citrus fruit at all.

Floral Citrus Illusion

A softer, floral-forward route to the same lemon-replacement objectives, built entirely from two whole botanicals.

What are you trying to solve?

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MODELO 10 · Balance

BaseMezcal

AcidityLime

SweetnessAgave syrup

BitternessCampari

Generate Recipe

Creative direction

Smoke leads, then lime cuts a clean line through it. Campari arrives last — a bitter echo that keeps the agave from turning sweet.

01 — Build over ice

02 — Stir 20 seconds

03 — Express grapefruit

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banana/innovation-recipes

Innovation Recipes

Exactly how do I do it?

Burnt Orange Cola

Explore →

Cold Maillard Reaction

Develop toasted, bready Maillard character in milk without heat — using time and alkalinity as the levers instead of a stove.

Explore →

Zero-Proof Cassis Liqueur

A non-alcoholic crème de cassis rebuilt from black olives, hibiscus and vegetable glycerin — blackcurrant's earthy, tannic, silky structure without blackcurrant or alcohol.

Explore →

What will you make today?

Solve

Hit a wall — cloudy juice, a foam that collapses, a flavor you can't source — and get the documented ways around it.

How do I clarify a juice without agar?

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Pair

Start from one ingredient and follow real, documented bridges to the ones that make it sing.

A citrus sliced into suspended cross-sections

Blood orange+ Rosemary+ Pink peppercorn

Create

Design a cocktail by balance, not by habit, and walk away with a creative direction you can actually build.

Base

Acidity

Sweetness

Bitterness

Reproduce

Follow a protocol step by step — with the exact ratios and the fixes for when it goes wrong.

04 / 6 — Protocol

01 — Freeze the chia gel solid

02 — Thaw slowly in the fridge

03 — Strain through cloth

Keep

Save every version, photo and tasting note — your lab remembers what worked so you don't have to.

Chromatic Architecturev3

Burnt Orange Colav2

Floral Citrus Illusionv1

Get inspired

See what's waiting inside the lab.

Cold Maillard Reaction

An immersion blender in a glass beaker whipping up a splash of milk around cantaloupe wedges and cubes.

Sonic Melon Milk

Spirit poured over bacon and butter into ice, sealed in a frosted pressure vessel, strained through cloth and served over ice.

Cryo-Pressure Fat Washing

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