A burger at Lola's Chicken Shack, a sandwich shop in Alameda, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +9.
A chicken pesto sandwich with layers outside the form; six of six roles, most layers have a partner.
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; basil pesto sauce; provolone cheese; red onion; lettuce; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 65th |
| acid | 0.3 | 35th |
| fat | 2.1 | 49th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 64th |
| umami | 2.1 | 80th |
| heat | 0.1 | 50th |
| bitter | 0.3 | 81st |
82 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 | +12 |
| basil pesto saucescored as Pesto | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 umami 2 creamy saucy | +7 |
| provolone cheesescored as Provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −1 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −1 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +11 |
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 + Pesto: pesto gives mild chicken a green engine
How to raise it
Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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