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Grilled Salmon Sandwich at In The Wood

Grilled salmon filet, tomato, butter lettuce, house tartar sauce on toasted acme bun. Sandwich Score 78, excellent. At In The Wood, Berkeley.

Grilled Salmon Sandwich at In The Wood: an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at In The Wood, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.

Burger BunTartar SauceLettuceTomatoSalmonBurger Bun
78
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · excellent

Excellent, with one move worth +13.

Uncharted, six of six roles on the board.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
95
Harmony
79
Contrast
96
Structure
98
Focus
100
Composition
74
Quality
100
Envelope
100

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 acme bun, toasted: grilled salmon filet; tomato; butter lettuce; house tartar sauce.

Balance

salt1.2 · 61stacid1.2 · 78thfat2.4 · 58thsweet0.8 · 85thumami1.3 · 41stheat0.0bitter0.1 · 48th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.261st
acid1.278th
fat2.458th
sweet0.885th
umami1.341st
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.148th

95 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
toasted acme bunscored as Burger Bunbreadsweet 2 soft springythe frame
grilled salmon filetscored as Salmonproteinfat 3 umami 3 soft flaky tender+1
tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+12
butter lettucescored as Lettucetexturecrunchy juicy fresh+17
house tartar saucescored as Tartar Saucesaucefat 4 acid 3 salt 2 creamy saucy+4

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.

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