A sandwich at The Brass Bear Delicatessen, a deli in Alamo, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +24.
Uncharted, six of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
More acid 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.
sliced whole wheat, served cold: choice of cheese; avocado; mustard; lettuce; tomato; pickle; onion; cucumbers.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.5 | 74th |
| acid | 1.7 | 90th |
| fat | 1.4 | 21st |
| sweet | 0.4 | 47th |
| umami | 1.0 | 30th |
| heat | 0.4 | 78th |
| bitter | 0.3 | 80th |
95 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sliced whole wheatscored as Whole Wheat Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| choice of cheesescored as Cheese (generic) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey | +3 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +1 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | +1 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +1 |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +1 |
| onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| cucumbersscored as Cucumber | bulk | crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
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.
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
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