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Hummus W/ Cucumber at El Tiny Cafe

Hummus, cucumber on choice of bagel (plain, everything or cheese). Sandwich Score 48, rough. At El Tiny Cafe, Berkeley.

Hummus W/ Cucumber at El Tiny Cafe: an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at El Tiny Cafe, a cafe in Berkeley, California.

CucumberHummusBagel
48
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +24.

Uncharted, four of six roles on the board.

Holding the summit: complete structure

Balance
51
Harmony
71
Contrast
73
Structure
49
Focus
75
Composition
61
Quality
100
Envelope
100

−5 a wet layer on soft bread

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: hummus; cucumber.

Balance

salt0.5 · 20thacid0.0fat1.4 · 21stsweet0.0umami0.5 · 10thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.520th
acid0.0n/a
fat1.421st
sweet0.0n/a
umami0.510th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

51 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
choice of bagel (plain, everything or cheese)scored as Bagelbreadsoft chewythe frame
hummussaucefat 3 creamy+17
cucumberbulkcrunchy juicy fresh+36

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

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