A sandwich at El Tiny Cafe, a cafe in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +28.
Reads as a turkey sandwich, four of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
Less fat than almost everything in 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.
choice of bread, served cold: tender turkey; homemade chipotle aioli (house-made); crisp lettuce; fresh tomatoes; red onions.
Worth a look: house-made: Chipotle Aioli.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.5 | 25th |
| acid | 0.5 | 48th |
| fat | 0.4 | 5th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 63rd |
| umami | 1.3 | 43rd |
| heat | 0.1 | 60th |
| bitter | 0.3 | 71st |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| choice of bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| tender turkeyscored as Turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +3 |
| homemade chipotle aioli (house-made) | not scored | ||
| crisp lettucescored as Lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +7 |
| fresh tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +13 |
| red onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
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
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
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