A sandwich at El Tiny Cafe, a cafe in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized egg and cheese, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
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 bagel (plain, everything or cheese), served cold: 2 eggs; chipotle aioli; cheddar cheese; tomato; red onion.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 56th |
| acid | 0.7 | 58th |
| fat | 2.3 | 54th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 49th |
| umami | 2.0 | 74th |
| heat | 0.1 | 55th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 47th |
94 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 bagel (plain, everything or cheese)scored as Bagel | bread | soft chewy | the frame |
| 2 eggsscored as Egg | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy | +10 |
| chipotle aioli | not scored | ||
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +26 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +9 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +13 |
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
- Egg + Cheddar Cheese: cheddar melts into soft egg, diner law
- Cheddar Cheese + Tomato: grilled cheese and tomato, the lunch pair
- Cheddar Cheese + Onion: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair
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