A wrap at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +24.
Reads as a chicken bacon melt, four 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.
large flour tortilla, toasted: grilled chicken or ground beef; grilled onions; crisp bacon; mushrooms; bell peppers; swiss cheese.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 66th |
| acid | 0.1 | 23rd |
| fat | 1.8 | 36th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 31st |
| umami | 2.1 | 80th |
| heat | 0.1 | 48th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 38th |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| large flour tortillascored as Tortilla | bread | soft | the frame |
| grilled chicken or ground beefscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +3 |
| grilled onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| crisp baconscored as Bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +2 |
| mushroomsscored as Mushroom | bulk | umami 2 soft springy juicy | +11 |
| bell peppersscored as Bell Pepper | bulk | crunchy juicy fresh | +2 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +1 |
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 + Bacon: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Chicken + Mushroom: mushroom deepens mild chicken, marsala logic
- Onion + Mushroom: the saute pair: mushroom and onion
- Onion + Bell Pepper: peppers and onions, the griddle pair
- Bacon + Mushroom: bacon salt and smoke deepen mushroom
- Mushroom + Swiss Cheese: melted alpine over browned mushroom
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.09 short).
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