A sandwich at Homemade Cafe, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +25.
Uncharted, five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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 bagel, toasted: cream cheese; red onion; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.6 | 30th |
| acid | 1.0 | 72nd |
| fat | 1.9 | 40th |
| sweet | 0.6 | 70th |
| umami | 1.0 | 31st |
| heat | 0.1 | 62nd |
| bitter | 0.1 | 56th |
83 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 bagelscored as Bagel | bread | soft chewy | the frame |
| cream cheese | fat | fat 4 creamy silky smooth | +19 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +2 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +8 |
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
- Bagel + Cream Cheese: the schmear: cream cheese on a boiled crust
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