A sandwich at Homemade Cafe, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +10.
Reads as a fully realized tuna salad sandwich, four of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
grilled sourdough, toasted: tuna salad; cheddar cheese; sliced tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.9 | 85th |
| acid | 1.2 | 78th |
| fat | 2.5 | 64th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 29th |
| umami | 2.8 | 90th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
97 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 sourdoughscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| tuna salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | +6 |
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +5 |
| sliced tomatoscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +30 |
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
- Sourdough + Cheddar Cheese: grilled cheese law: sharp cheese, tangy crust
- Tuna Salad + Tomato: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair
- Cheddar Cheese + Tomato: grilled cheese and tomato, the lunch pair
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.01 short).
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