A sandwich at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen, a deli in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Uncharted, four of six roles on the board.
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.
rye, toasted: sauteed mushrooms; swiss cheese; sauerkraut; russian dressing.
In italics: what the name implies and the menu does not list.
Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen's typical score.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 79th |
| acid | 1.7 | 90th |
| fat | 1.9 | 41st |
| sweet | 0.5 | 66th |
| umami | 1.1 | 35th |
| heat | 0.3 | 72nd |
| bitter | 0.3 | 76th |
91 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ryescored as Rye Bread | bread | bitter 2 soft crusty | the frame |
| sauteed mushrooms | not scored | ||
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +16 |
| sauerkraut | acid | acid 4 salt 2 pickled wet | +16 |
| russian dressingscored as Russian Dressing (Thousand Island) | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 acid 2 sweet 2 creamy saucy | +11 |
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
- Swiss Cheese + Sauerkraut: melted swiss rounds the kraut's sour
- Sauerkraut + Russian Dressing (Thousand Island): russian dressing was built for kraut
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.04 short).
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