A sandwich at Saul's Restaurant & Delicatessen, a deli in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +12.
Uncharted, five of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More salt 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 sweet deli roll, served cold: corned beef; mayo; zhoug; sweet onion; pickled cabbage; herbs.
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.
Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Zhoug, Pickled Cabbage, Herbs.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.2 | 90th |
| acid | 1.1 | 76th |
| fat | 2.8 | 73rd |
| sweet | 0.2 | 29th |
| umami | 1.9 | 69th |
| heat | 0.1 | 57th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 51st |
94 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 sweet deli rollscored as Kaiser Roll | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| corned beef | protein | salt 5 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +3 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +5 |
| zhoug | not scored | ||
| sweet onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +7 |
| pickled cabbage | not scored | ||
| herbs | 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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