A burger at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
A burger with layers outside the form; six of six roles.
Holding the summit: better ingredients (quality 0.80 or better)
More sweet 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.
bun, toasted: beef patty; homemade bbq sauce (house-made); bacon; crispy onion ring; american cheese (low tier); lettuce; tomato; pickle.
Worth a look: house-made: BBQ Sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.3 | 90th |
| acid | 1.2 | 79th |
| fat | 2.0 | 42nd |
| sweet | 1.2 | 90th |
| umami | 1.6 | 53rd |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | 37th |
97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bun (low tier)scored as Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| beef pattyscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +2 |
| homemade bbq sauce (house-made)scored as BBQ Sauce | sauce | sweet 4 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy | 0 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +2 |
| crispy onion ringscored as Onion Rings | texture | fat 3 salt 2 sweet 2 crunchy crispy fried | 0 |
| american cheese (low tier) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | −3 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +1 |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +6 |
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
- Beef + BBQ Sauce: brisket law: bbq sauce on smoked beef
- Beef + Onion Rings: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
- Beef + American Cheese: cheesesteak law: melted american on beef
- Beef + Pickle (cucumber): pickle brine against rich beef
- BBQ Sauce + Bacon: smoke on smoke: bacon under bbq sauce
- BBQ Sauce + Onion Rings: onion sharpens sweet bbq sauce
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
How to raise it
Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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