A sandwich at Barneys Gourmet Hamburgers (Solano), a sandwich shop in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +19.
A chicken bacon melt with layers outside the form; six of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
pretzel bun, served cold: crispy chicken strips; chipotle bbq sauce; provolone; guacamole; bacon; tomato.
Worth a look: rare in the Bay Area (5 or fewer shops): Chipotle BBQ Sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 80th |
| acid | 0.4 | 41st |
| fat | 2.7 | 70th |
| sweet | 0.1 | 21st |
| umami | 2.3 | 85th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| pretzel bunscored as Pretzel Roll | bread | salt 2 soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| crispy chicken stripsscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +2 |
| chipotle bbq sauce | not scored | ||
| provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −2 |
| guacamole | sauce | fat 4 creamy fresh | −3 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +2 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +11 |
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
- Chicken + Bacon: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
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