What’s on the Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine poster
A 8-row table: Missing · Use · How close.
Honest about how close each substitution actually gets.
- Fish sauce — Soy + a little anchovy — Reasonable
- Mirin — Sake + sugar — Very close
- Galangal — Ginger — Different, but works
- Kaffir lime leaf — Lime zest — Distant
- Tamarind — Lime + brown sugar — Reasonable
- Gochujang — Miso + chilli + sugar — Reasonable
- Sumac — Lemon zest + salt — Reasonable
- Saffron — Turmeric — Colour only, not flavour
Turmeric for saffron is a colour substitution, not a flavour one. Nothing tastes like saffron except saffron.
Questions about the Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine poster
- What’s on the Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine poster?
- A 8-row table: Missing · Use · How close. Honest about how close each substitution actually gets. Fish sauce — Soy + a little anchovy — Reasonable; Mirin — Sake + sugar — Very close; Galangal — Ginger — Different, but works; Kaffir lime leaf — Lime zest — Distant; Tamarind — Lime + brown sugar — Reasonable; Gochujang — Miso + chilli + sugar — Reasonable; Sumac — Lemon zest + salt — Reasonable; Saffron — Turmeric — Colour only, not flavour. Turmeric for saffron is a colour substitution, not a flavour one. Nothing tastes like saffron except saffron.
- Who is the Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine poster for?
- Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine belongs to the Kitchen section rather than to a school year, because food is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning cuisines can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.
- When should you use the Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine poster?
- Some substitutions are fine. Others change the dish into a different one. Know which. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine belongs on the wall where that food work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine?
- Breads, Chinese Pantry and French Foundations sit alongside Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine in the Kitchen section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.BreadsChinese PantryFrench Foundations
- Is the Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Kitchen section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine poster print at?
- Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Ingredient Substitutions by Cuisine loses nothing.Printing guide
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