A sandwich at Sprankles Deli, a deli in Benicia, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +19.
Reads as a turkey sandwich, six of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
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.
italian herb bun, served cold: turkey; ranch (low tier); bacon; provolone; avocado; lettuce; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 70th |
| acid | 0.3 | 36th |
| fat | 2.7 | 71st |
| sweet | 0.3 | 35th |
| umami | 1.8 | 64th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | 37th |
80 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| italian herb bunscored as Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | 0 |
| ranch (low tier)scored as Ranch Dressing | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 creamy saucy | −7 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | 0 |
| provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −4 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | −6 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +9 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +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
- Turkey + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Turkey + Avocado: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Ranch Dressing + Bacon: bacon ranch, the american fold
- Ranch Dressing + Lettuce: ranch on the greens, salad logic
- Ranch Dressing + Tomato: ranch on tomato, salad logic
- Bacon + Avocado: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
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