A sandwich at Ashby Eatery, a sandwich shop in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · rough
Rough, with one move worth +30.
Reads as a fully realized egg and cheese, three of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: real textural contrast
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
More fat 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.
housemade biscuit, served cold: scrambled eggs; cheddar cheese; chipotle mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 65th |
| acid | 0.6 | 51st |
| fat | 3.8 | 90th |
| sweet | 0.1 | 23rd |
| umami | 1.7 | 62nd |
| heat | 0.5 | 87th |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
72 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| housemade biscuit (high tier)scored as Buttermilk Biscuit | bread | fat 3 soft flaky fluffy | the frame |
| scrambled eggsscored as Egg | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy | +13 |
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +10 |
| chipotle mayo | sauce | fat 5 heat 2 creamy saucy | −5 |
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
- Egg + Cheddar Cheese: cheddar melts into soft egg, diner law
- Egg + Chipotle Mayo: egg salad core: yolk richness doubled
- Cheddar Cheese + Chipotle Mayo: smoky heat in sharp fat, the southwest melt
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
- Judged as an egg and cheese: richness is not held against it.
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