A burger at Barneys Gourmet Hamburgers (Solano), a sandwich shop in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +17.
A lox bagel with layers outside the form; six of six roles.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
whole wheat bun, toasted: wild alaskan salmon patty; lettuce; tomato; red onion; pickle; 1000 island.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.8 | 81st |
| acid | 1.9 | 90th |
| fat | 1.7 | 31st |
| sweet | 1.2 | 90th |
| umami | 1.2 | 37th |
| heat | 0.3 | 73rd |
| bitter | 0.1 | 55th |
96 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| whole wheat bunscored as Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| wild alaskan salmon pattyscored as Salmon | protein | fat 3 umami 3 soft flaky tender | +7 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +8 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +9 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +8 |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | −2 |
| 1000 islandscored as Russian Dressing (Thousand Island) | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 acid 2 sweet 2 creamy saucy | −9 |
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
- Salmon + Onion: raw onion bite keeps rich lox honest
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.17 short).
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