A sandwich at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +10.
Reads as a chicken bacon melt, six of six roles, most layers have a partner.
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.
fresh bun, toasted: crispy breaded chicken breast; melted swiss cheese; lettuce; tomato; ranch dressing (low tier).
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 69th |
| acid | 0.5 | 45th |
| fat | 2.3 | 55th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 50th |
| umami | 2.0 | 70th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 41st |
87 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| fresh bunscored as Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| crispy breaded chicken breastscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +8 |
| melted swiss cheesescored as Swiss Cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −5 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +16 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +15 |
| ranch dressing (low tier) | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 creamy saucy | +15 |
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
- Chicken + Ranch Dressing: chicken bacon ranch, the american fold
- Lettuce + Ranch Dressing: ranch on the greens, salad logic
- Tomato + Ranch Dressing: ranch on tomato, salad logic
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