A sandwich at Homemade Cafe, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +29.
A breakfast sandwich with layers outside the form; four of six roles.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
More umami 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.
open face french toast, toasted: bacon; cheddar; fried chicken; egg; country cream gravy; maple-orange-cayenne syrup.
Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Maple-Orange-Cayenne Syrup.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.8 | 82nd |
| acid | 0.2 | 30th |
| fat | 2.9 | 77th |
| sweet | 0.0 | n/a |
| umami | 2.7 | 90th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
70 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| open face french toast (low tier)scored as White Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +7 |
| cheddarscored as Cheddar Cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +5 |
| fried chickenscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +2 |
| egg | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy | +1 |
| country cream gravyscored as Gravy | sauce | umami 4 salt 3 fat 3 saucy wet silky | +2 |
| maple-orange-cayenne syrup | not scored |
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
- Bacon + Cheddar Cheese: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- Bacon + Chicken: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Bacon + Egg: the breakfast contract: smoke and yolk
- Cheddar Cheese + Egg: cheddar melts into soft egg, diner law
How to raise it
Commodity bread (white bread): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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