A sandwich at The Brass Bear Delicatessen, a deli in Alamo, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +13.
Uncharted, five of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More salt than 90% of the catalog.
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 sour dough roll, toasted: prosciutto (high tier); bacon; italian cream cheese; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.2 | 90th |
| acid | 0.6 | 55th |
| fat | 2.9 | 77th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 24th |
| umami | 2.3 | 86th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
93 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 sour dough rollscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| prosciutto (high tier) | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 silky chewy tender | 0 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +3 |
| italian cream cheesescored as Cream Cheese | fat | fat 4 creamy silky smooth | −2 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +17 |
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
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
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