A sandwich at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +13.
Reads as a fully realized egg and cheese, three 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.
grilled sourdough, toasted: american cheese (low tier); over-hard egg; hash browns (low tier); choice of bacon, sausage, ham, hot link, linguica, turkey sausage, jalapeño bacon, chicken or angus beef patty.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 67th |
| acid | 0.2 | 29th |
| fat | 2.8 | 75th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 42nd |
| umami | 1.3 | 41st |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
71 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| grilled sourdoughscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| american cheese (low tier) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | +21 |
| over-hard eggscored as Egg | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy | +18 |
| hash browns (low tier) | bulk | fat 3 salt 2 crispy soft fried | −4 |
| choice of bacon, sausage, ham, hot link, linguica, turkey sausage, jalapeño bacon, chicken or angus beef patty | not scored |
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
- American Cheese + Egg: diner law: american melts into soft egg
How to raise it
- Judged as an egg and cheese: richness is not held against it.
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