A burger at Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers (Shattuck), a sandwich shop in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
A burger with layers outside the form; six of six roles.
More acid 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.
Burger Bun (bread not stated on the menu), toasted: beef patty; extra american cheese (low tier); pickle; 1000 island; mustard; sautéed onions; tomato; lettuce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 88th |
| acid | 1.7 | 90th |
| fat | 1.8 | 36th |
| sweet | 1.0 | 90th |
| umami | 1.3 | 41st |
| heat | 0.5 | 84th |
| bitter | 0.2 | 70th |
97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| beef pattyscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +15 |
| extra american cheese (low tier)scored as American Cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | 0 |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +1 |
| 1000 islandscored as Russian Dressing (Thousand Island) | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 acid 2 sweet 2 creamy saucy | −2 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | 0 |
| sautéed onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | 0 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +2 |
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 + American Cheese: cheesesteak law: melted american on beef
- Beef + Pickle (cucumber): pickle brine against rich beef
- Beef + Mustard: roast beef and mustard, deli logic
- Beef + Onion: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
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