A burger at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +20.
Uncharted, six of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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: beef patty; melted jack cheese; crisp bacon; lettuce; tomato; chipotle 1000 island dressing.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.6 | 76th |
| acid | 0.6 | 55th |
| fat | 2.7 | 72nd |
| sweet | 0.5 | 61st |
| umami | 2.0 | 71st |
| heat | 0.2 | 65th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 38th |
93 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 |
| beef pattyscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | −9 |
| melted jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −10 |
| crisp baconscored as Bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +6 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +7 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +13 |
| chipotle 1000 island dressingscored as Russian Dressing (Thousand Island) | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 acid 2 sweet 2 creamy saucy | −9 |
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
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
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