A burger at Barneys Gourmet Hamburgers (Solano), a sandwich shop in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · rough
Rough, with one move worth +23.
Uncharted, three of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
More umami 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: hamburger patty; provolone; blue cheese; bacon; mushrooms sautéed in our spicy voodoo sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.1 | 90th |
| acid | 0.0 | n/a |
| fat | 3.2 | 85th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 29th |
| umami | 2.7 | 90th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.4 | 88th |
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
| Layer | Role | Flavor and texture | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| hamburger pattyscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +2 |
| provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | 0 |
| blue cheesescored as Blue Cheese (gorgonzola) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 bitter 2 creamy soft melty | −4 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | −8 |
| mushrooms sautéed in our spicy voodoo sauce | not scored |
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 + Provolone: philly logic: sharp provolone on beef
- Beef + Blue Cheese (gorgonzola): steakhouse pair: blue cheese on beef
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