Deviled Eggs Lab

Three styles in 379 deviled egg recipes

Leave the recipe names aside and group the 379 recipes by their 7 ingredient ratios alone, so that recipes built alike land together. Each group is named only by the numbers: the ingredients where its recipes sit furthest from the middle of all 379.

The data splits best into three groups, and they separate: a silhouette of 0.28, on a scale where 0 is no separation and 1 is complete. They still touch at the edges, so a recipe near a boundary could sit in either.

The recipes on one map

Every recipe, placed on the two directions along which the ratios vary most (a principal component projection). Close dots are recipes built alike. The lettered rings mark the middle of each group.

AClose to the overall median253
BWith meat or fish, less salt64
CWith dairy or avocado, less mayonnaise or oil62

Across →: More dairy or avocado, less mayonnaise or oil and meat or fish to the right; 24% of the variation.
Up ↑: More meat or fish, less mustard and salt upward; 18% of the variation.

The three groups

AClose to the overall median

253 recipes · 67% of all 379

Where it differs from all recipes

Meat or fishmedian 0 g vs 0 g for all
average rank: 40th percentile of all recipes · none in 82% (all recipes 66%)
Dairy or avocadomedian 0 g vs 0 g for all
average rank: 42nd percentile of all recipes · none in 78% (all recipes 65%)

Its median recipe, at 6 eggs

Median recipe of group A in grams, against the median of all recipes
Ingredient	Group A	All
Mayonnaise or oil	41 g	37 g
Dairy or avocado	none	none
Mustard	3.5 g	2 g
Vinegar or juice	none	none
Pickles and relish	none	none
Meat or fish	none	none
Salt	none	none

Each line is the group's median for that ingredient, scaled to 300 g, 6 eggs.

Closest to the middle of the group

Deviled Eggs · farmhouseonboone.commeat or fish 0 g · dairy or avocado 0 g
Fried Deviled Eggs · spendwithpennies.commeat or fish 0 g · dairy or avocado 0 g
Easy Bacon Deviled Eggs · houseofnasheats.commeat or fish 1.7 g · dairy or avocado 0 g
Herbed Deviled Eggs · thepioneerwoman.commeat or fish 0 g · dairy or avocado 0 g
Japanese Deviled Eggs · lcarecipes.commeat or fish 0 g · dairy or avocado 0 g

BWith meat or fish, less salt

64 recipes · 17% of all 379

Where it differs from all recipes

Meat or fishmedian 25 g vs 0 g for all
average rank: 91st percentile of all recipes · none in 0% (all recipes 66%)
Saltmedian 0 g vs 0 g for all
average rank: 37th percentile of all recipes · none in 96% (all recipes 70%)
Vinegar or juicemedian 0 g vs 0 g for all
average rank: 39th percentile of all recipes · none in 90% (all recipes 66%)

Its median recipe, at 6 eggs

Median recipe of group B in grams, against the median of all recipes
Ingredient	Group B	All
Mayonnaise or oil	39 g	37 g
Dairy or avocado	none	none
Mustard	none	2 g
Vinegar or juice	none	none
Pickles and relish	none	none
Meat or fish	145 g	none
Salt	none	none

Each line is the group's median for that ingredient, scaled to 300 g, 6 eggs.

Closest to the middle of the group

Uova mimosa · misya.infomeat or fish 25 g · salt 0 g
Huevos rellenos de ensaladilla rusa, una receta ideal para el verano · pequerecetas.commeat or fish 25 g · salt 0 g
Les vrais oeufs mimosa · cuisineaz.commeat or fish 28 g · salt 0 g
Uova ripiene di tonno, con o senza maionese! · ricettedalmondo.itmeat or fish 25 g · salt 0 g
Huevos rellenos de langostinos: receta fácil, rápida y deliciosa · directoalpaladar.commeat or fish 27 g · salt 0 g

CWith dairy or avocado, less mayonnaise or oil

62 recipes · 16% of all 379

Where it differs from all recipes

Dairy or avocadomedian 18 g vs 0 g for all
average rank: 91st percentile of all recipes · none in 0% (all recipes 65%)
Mayonnaise or oilmedian 0 g vs 6.1 g for all
average rank: 20th percentile of all recipes · none in 64% (all recipes 20%)
Vinegar or juicemedian 0 g vs 0 g for all
average rank: 60th percentile of all recipes · none in 53% (all recipes 66%)

Its median recipe, at 6 eggs

Median recipe of group C in grams, against the median of all recipes
Ingredient	Group C	All
Mayonnaise or oil	none	37 g
Dairy or avocado	105 g	none
Mustard	none	2 g
Vinegar or juice	none	none
Pickles and relish	none	none
Meat or fish	none	none
Salt	none	none

Each line is the group's median for that ingredient, scaled to 300 g, 6 eggs.

Closest to the middle of the group

Avocado Deviled Eggs · healthyfitnessmeals.comdairy or avocado 16 g · mayonnaise or oil 0 g
Avocado Deviled Eggs · healthyfamilyproject.comdairy or avocado 17 g · mayonnaise or oil 0 g
Guacamole Deviled Eggs · theviewfromgreatisland.comdairy or avocado 17 g · mayonnaise or oil 3.1 g
Gefüllte Eier – Grundrezept · gaumenfreundin.dedairy or avocado 19 g · mayonnaise or oil 0 g
No-Yolk Deviled Eggs · tasteofhome.comdairy or avocado 16 g · mayonnaise or oil 1.4 g

How the groups are found

Each ratio is converted to a z-score (how many standard deviations a recipe sits from the mean), capped at 3 so one extreme recipe cannot claim a group, and k-means sorts the recipes into k groups, trying k from 2 to 4. Each k runs from 16 fixed starting points and keeps the tightest result, so the page is the same on every build. No group may hold fewer than 38 recipes.

The number of groups is the one with the best silhouette, which compares how close each recipe is to its own group with how close it is to the next one. By number of groups: 2 groups 0.26 · 3 groups 0.28 · 4 groups 0.27. At 0.25 or more the page calls the groups separate; from 0.18 to 0.25, overlapping; under 0.18, no clear styles.

A group's name lists the one to three ingredients where its recipes rank furthest from the middle of all 379, on average. “More” and “less” are relative to the whole dataset, and the names say nothing about texture or taste, which the ratios alone do not show. The median recipe of a group is, like the typical recipe on the overview, the middle of each ingredient separately, not one real recipe. The recipes listed under each group are the ones nearest its center, at most two from any one site.