A burger at Lola's Chicken Shack, a sandwich shop in Alameda, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a club, five of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: better ingredients (quality 0.80 or better)
Each bar is one pillar of the score, 0 to 100. The tick marks what a sandwich at the summit needs; an amber bar is the one holding this sandwich back.
toasted bun, toasted: grilled chicken patty; special sauce; cheddar cheese; honey cured bacon; red onion; lettuce; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.8 | 81st |
| acid | 0.5 | 48th |
| fat | 2.4 | 59th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 63rd |
| umami | 2.3 | 85th |
| heat | 0.1 | 50th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 55th |
88 Balance, out of 100
The seven flavor axes of the whole sandwich, each summed across its layers. The shaded ring is the catalog's middle 80%; the small number under each axis is where this sandwich falls in the catalog. A shape that sits inside the ring is in the range most sandwiches live in; a spike past it is where this one stands apart.
What each layer brings
| Layer | Role | Flavor and texture | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| toasted bun (low tier)scored as Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| grilled chicken pattyscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | −1 |
| special sauce | not scored | ||
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +1 |
| honey cured baconscored as Bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +1 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +2 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +16 |
Points: what the Sandwich Score would lose if that one layer were left out, everything else the same. A negative number means the sandwich scores higher without it. Flavor runs 0 to 5 on each axis.
Pairings
- Chicken + Bacon: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Cheddar Cheese + Bacon: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- Cheddar Cheese + Onion: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair
- Cheddar Cheese + Tomato: grilled cheese and tomato, the lunch pair
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
How to raise it
Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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