A hot dog at Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers (Shattuck), a sandwich shop in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +12.
Uncharted, four of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
choice of bread, toasted: kosher beef hot dog (low tier); housemade beef chili with beans; cheddar cheese; chopped red onion.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.2 | 90th |
| acid | 0.4 | 40th |
| fat | 2.5 | 65th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 60th |
| umami | 2.0 | 75th |
| heat | 0.1 | 53rd |
| bitter | 0.1 | 45th |
77 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| choice of bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| kosher beef hot dog (low tier)scored as Hot Dog | protein | salt 4 fat 4 umami 3 springy juicy tender | −4 |
| housemade beef chili with beansscored as Beans | bulk | soft creamy | −1 |
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +4 |
| chopped red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +7 |
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
- Cheddar Cheese + Onion: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair
How to raise it
Commodity lead (hot dog): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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