A burger at Lola's Chicken Shack, a sandwich shop in Alameda, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +18.
A burger buried under extra layers; six of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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; swiss cheese; garlic aioli; sautéed mushrooms; red onion; lettuce; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 57th |
| acid | 0.5 | 47th |
| fat | 2.3 | 57th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 64th |
| umami | 1.9 | 68th |
| 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 | −5 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −7 |
| garlic aioliscored as Aioli | sauce | fat 5 creamy silky saucy | 0 |
| sautéed mushrooms | not scored | ||
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −1 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +5 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +9 |
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 + Aioli: garlic aioli on mild chicken
- Aioli + Tomato: garlic aioli against sweet acid
How to raise it
Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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