A sandwich at Homemade Cafe, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +18.
Leans toward a deli corned beef, three of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More salt 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 rye, toasted: 6oz thick hand cut hot corned beef; swiss cheese; coleslaw.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.5 | 90th |
| acid | 0.7 | 58th |
| fat | 2.3 | 57th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 27th |
| umami | 2.3 | 84th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.3 | 79th |
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 ryescored as Rye Bread | bread | bitter 2 soft crusty | the frame |
| 6oz thick hand cut hot corned beefscored as Corned Beef | protein | salt 5 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +18 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +4 |
| coleslaw | bulk | acid 2 fat 2 crunchy creamy dressed | +11 |
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
- Rye Bread + Corned Beef: corned beef rides rye's caraway bite
- Corned Beef + Swiss Cheese: melted swiss rounds salty corned beef
- Corned Beef + Coleslaw: corned beef and cabbage, the boiled dinner pair
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.13 short).
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