A sandwich at The Brass Bear Delicatessen, a deli in Alamo, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +17.
Reads as a fully realized club, six of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 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 sliced sour dough bread, toasted: oven roasted turkey; bacon; avocado; american cheese (low tier); mayo; lettuce; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 68th |
| acid | 0.5 | 50th |
| fat | 2.9 | 78th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 35th |
| umami | 1.6 | 57th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | 37th |
89 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 sliced sour dough breadscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| oven roasted turkeyscored as Turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +1 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | −6 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | −2 |
| american cheese (low tier) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | −12 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −1 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +6 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +14 |
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
- Sourdough + American Cheese: grilled cheese law: melted cheese, tangy crust
- Turkey + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Turkey + Avocado: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Bacon + Avocado: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Mayonnaise + Tomato: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.18 short).
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