The Pantry

Eleven jars and bottles. That is the whole range, and it is deliberate — everything on this shelf earns its place by being used two or three times a week, not once a year.

We toast and mill in 40-jar batches every Tuesday in our Amsterdam kitchen, and we date the lid rather than printing a two-year shelf life and hoping. A blend that has been sitting for four months is a different, duller thing than one milled last week, and pretending otherwise is most of what is wrong with supermarket spice.

The three shelves

Signature spice blends — €10–13

Six blends: Ember Rub, Golden Hour, Nightshade, Green Market, Cellar Salt and Winter Bark. Whole spices, toasted in a dry pan, milled coarse enough that you can still see what is in the jar. See the blends.

Finishing sauces — €11–15

Five bottles and jars built to go on at the end, off the heat: Slow Red, Burnt Honey & Chilli, Green Sesame, Anchovy Butter Base and Black Garlic Ketchup. See the sauces.

Gift sets & bundles — €29–68

Led by The Signature Six: all six blends in a lidded crate for €54, which is €18 less than buying them one at a time. See the sets.

Practical things

• Free EU shipping over €55; everything else is on the shipping page.
• Orders placed before 14:00 CET on a working day leave the kitchen within 48 hours.
• Full ingredient decks and the 14 declarable allergens are listed per product on Allergens & ingredients.
• 2,140 cooks on the list, 4.8 out of 5 from 612 reviews. We publish the one-star ones too.

Not sure where to start

Buy Ember Rub and Slow Red. Between them they cover a traybake, a ragù, a bowl of beans and roughly half of what we cook at home on a weeknight. If you would rather be led, The Cellar is €29 a month and arrives with a recipe that assumes you have twenty minutes, not two hours.