A sandwich at The Brass Bear Delicatessen, a deli in Alamo, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +15.
Reads as a turkey sandwich, five 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.
rosemary focaccia, served cold: oven roasted turkey; avocado; havarti; pesto aioli; lettuce; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.9 | 51st |
| acid | 0.5 | 46th |
| fat | 2.3 | 57th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 49th |
| umami | 1.4 | 47th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 40th |
84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| rosemary focaccia (high tier)scored as Focaccia | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| oven roasted turkeyscored as Turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +9 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +4 |
| havarti | protein | fat 4 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −4 |
| pesto aioli | not scored | ||
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +13 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +13 |
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
- Turkey + Avocado: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
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