A sandwich at Homemade Cafe, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
Leans toward a hot chicken sandwich, six of six roles, most layers have a partner.
More acid 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.
grilled challah roll, toasted: 6oz southern fried chicken thigh; lettuce; tomato; mayo; pickles; coleslaw; cajun aioli.
Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Cajun Aioli.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.5 | 72nd |
| acid | 1.9 | 90th |
| fat | 1.8 | 35th |
| sweet | 0.7 | 80th |
| umami | 1.0 | 30th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 39th |
93 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| grilled challah rollscored as Challah | bread | sweet 2 soft fluffy | the frame |
| 6oz southern fried chicken thighscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +28 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +17 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +18 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +18 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +4 |
| coleslaw | bulk | acid 2 fat 2 crunchy creamy dressed | −1 |
| cajun aioli | 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
- Chicken + Pickle (cucumber): fried chicken's pickle law holds cold too
- Chicken + Coleslaw: cold crunch against crisp fried chicken
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
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