A sandwich at Lavender Bread & Cafe (San Pablo), a bakery in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +31.
Uncharted, four of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
bread not stated, toasted: avocado; pickled onion; microgreens; aleppo; sesame.
Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Microgreens, Aleppo Pepper.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.4 | 18th |
| acid | 1.6 | 90th |
| fat | 1.6 | 29th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 50th |
| umami | 0.4 | 9th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
71 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +15 |
| pickled onion | acid | acid 4 pickled wet crunchy | +9 |
| microgreens | not scored | ||
| aleppo | not scored | ||
| sesame | 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.
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