A sandwich at El Tiny Cafe, a cafe in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +11.
Reads as a fully realized tuna salad sandwich, 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.
bread not stated, served cold: homemade tuna salad made with mayonnaise (house-made); lettuce; tomatoes.
Worth a look: house-made: Tuna Salad.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 57th |
| acid | 0.9 | 66th |
| fat | 1.4 | 23rd |
| sweet | 0.3 | 37th |
| umami | 2.3 | 86th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 56th |
98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| homemade tuna salad made with mayonnaise (house-made)scored as Tuna Salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | +26 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +12 |
| tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +8 |
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
- Tuna Salad + Lettuce: cool crunch under rich tuna salad
- Tuna Salad + Tomato: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair
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