A hot dog at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen, a deli in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +10.
Uncharted, four of six roles, half the layers have no 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.
acme hot dog bun, toasted: hot dog (low tier); mustard; sauerkraut; ketchup (low tier).
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.3 | 90th |
| acid | 2.0 | 90th |
| fat | 1.0 | 14th |
| sweet | 1.1 | 90th |
| umami | 1.1 | 34th |
| heat | 0.4 | 81st |
| bitter | 0.2 | 65th |
90 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| acme hot dog bun (low tier)scored as Hot Dog Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| hot dog (low tier) | protein | salt 4 fat 4 umami 3 springy juicy tender | +8 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | +3 |
| sauerkraut | acid | acid 4 salt 2 pickled wet | +1 |
| ketchup (low tier) | sauce | sweet 3 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy | +1 |
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.
How to raise it
Commodity bread and lead (hot dog bun, hot dog): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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