A burger at Headlands Brewing Berkeley, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +35.
Reads as a burger, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More sweet 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.
potato bun, toasted: chipotle black bean patty; mixed greens; tomato; red onion; secret sriracha sauce; crispy shallots.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.6 | 27th |
| acid | 1.1 | 73rd |
| fat | 0.4 | 4th |
| sweet | 2.0 | 90th |
| umami | 1.1 | 32nd |
| heat | 0.4 | 82nd |
| bitter | 0.4 | 87th |
81 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| potato bunscored as Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| chipotle black bean patty | not scored | ||
| mixed greens | not scored | ||
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +7 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| secret sriracha sauce | not scored | ||
| crispy shallotsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
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.
How to raise it
- Reads as a sweet build on purpose; scored as one.
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