A burger at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
A burger buried under extra layers; five of six roles.
Holding the summit: better ingredients (quality 0.80 or better)
More salt 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: 1/3 lb beef patty; pastrami; dijon mustard; melted swiss cheese; lettuce; tomato; pickle.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.3 | 90th |
| acid | 1.4 | 83rd |
| fat | 1.9 | 38th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 64th |
| umami | 2.1 | 81st |
| heat | 0.2 | 66th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 38th |
98 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 |
| 1/3 lb beef pattyscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +7 |
| pastrami | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | 0 |
| dijon mustard | not scored | ||
| melted swiss cheesescored as Swiss Cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +5 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +8 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | 0 |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +3 |
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 + Swiss Cheese: roast beef and swiss, the deli melt
- Beef + Pickle (cucumber): pickle brine against rich beef
- Pastrami + Swiss Cheese: melted swiss rounds peppered beef
How to raise it
Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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