A sandwich at Homemade Cafe, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +17.
Uncharted, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
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.
toasted wheat, toasted: avocado; lettuce; tomato; mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.4 | 18th |
| acid | 0.9 | 66th |
| fat | 2.8 | 75th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 27th |
| umami | 0.9 | 27th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.3 | 72nd |
73 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| toasted wheatscored as Whole Wheat Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | −4 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +17 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +23 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +18 |
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
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.07 short).
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