Ingredient
Cucumber
Cucumber turns up on ten plates across eight of the kitchens we read. The appetizer section holds seven of them, and the shape it takes most often is the salad, on seven.
From 40 menus · cucumber is on 10 plates · How we read them
For the curious: the data views
Show only
Some of these were read by a script, not a person — those chips have a hollow dot. About the method →
How it comes
The forms it turns up in, most first.
Where on the menu
The menu sections the dishes sit under, most first.
One entry is all the menus we read give this. All vegetable
How it's cooked
How the kitchens cook it, counting the word on the component as well as the plate.
Show all 8
The journey of cucumber
The same 10 plates read outward from the middle: how the kitchens cook it, how it then arrives, and which part of the menu it arrives in. A wedge too narrow for its word carries it in the table underneath.
| Ring | Commonest | Plates |
|---|---|---|
| How it's cooked | seared | 2 |
| How it comes | salad | 2 |
| Where on the menu | appetizer | 2 |
| Other | 18 other steps, added up | 18 |
| Not stated | the menu never printed that detail | 3 |
Every wedge, as a table
| Cooked | Arrives as | Course | Plates |
|---|---|---|---|
| seared | — | — | 2 |
| seared | salad | — | 2 |
| seared | salad | appetizer | 2 |
| fried | — | — | 1 |
| fried | small-plate | — | 1 |
| fried | small-plate | appetizer | 1 |
| glazed | — | — | 1 |
| glazed | salad | — | 1 |
| glazed | salad | appetizer | 1 |
| grilled | — | — | 1 |
| grilled | salad | — | 1 |
| grilled | salad | not stated | 1 |
| marinated | — | — | 1 |
| marinated | salad | — | 1 |
| marinated | salad | not stated | 1 |
| pan-seared | — | — | 1 |
| pan-seared | salad | — | 1 |
| pan-seared | salad | appetizer | 1 |
| raw | — | — | 1 |
| raw | salad | — | 1 |
| raw | salad | not stated | 1 |
| tempura | — | — | 1 |
| tempura | small-plate | — | 1 |
| tempura | small-plate | appetizer | 1 |
Travels with
What shares a plate with it, counted inside a course and never across one. A partner marked distinctive turns up together far more often than chance.
- Onion5read by scriptall Oniondistinctive
- Cheese4read by scriptall Cheesedistinctive
- Green2all Greendistinctive
Show all 8
Dishes
Our reading of the menu turns up diced, cabbage and flounder.
The menu leans on country-fried, kaiser and tartar.
Our reading of the menu lists broiled, crumbled and crab.
Show all 8 kitchens
Our reading of the menu turns up steamed, soft crab and crab.
Our reading of the menu turns up braised, linguine and evoo.
Our reading of the menu turns up popcorn, drink and fresh.
In the family
Where it sits in the ingredient lexicon.
One entry is all the menus we read give this. All vegetable
Where on the island
The 8 kitchens above, by district. Counted off the menus we read, in order up the island — not a ranking of neighbourhoods.
| District | Kitchens | Side of the island |
|---|---|---|
| Lower Midtown | 1 | inland |
| Midtown | 1 | bayside |
| Uptown | 1 | inland |
| North OC | 1 | inland |
| West Ocean City | 4 | harbor |