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French at Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers (Shattuck)

Beef patty, blue cheese, bacon on toasted baguette. Sandwich Score 46, rough. At Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers (Shattuck), Berkeley.

A burger at Barney's Gourmet Hamburgers (Shattuck), a sandwich shop in Berkeley, California.

BaguetteBaconBlue Cheese (gorgon…BeefBaguette
46
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +19.

Uncharted, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
37
Harmony
71
Contrast
60
Structure
88
Focus
100
Composition
30
Quality
100
Envelope
96

More bitter 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.

toasted baguette, toasted: beef patty; blue cheese; bacon.

Balance

salt2.0 · 88thacid0.0fat3.1 · 83rdsweet0.0umami2.6 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.6 · 90th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.088th
acid0.0n/a
fat3.183rd
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.690th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.690th

67 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
toasted baguettescored as Baguettebreadcrispy soft flakythe frame
beef pattyscored as Beefproteinfat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender+1
blue cheesescored as Blue Cheese (gorgonzola)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 bitter 2 creamy soft melty+1
baconproteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy−4

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.

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