A sandwich at Summer Kitchen + Bakeshop, a cafe in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +9.
Uncharted, four of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
white bread (inferred from the kind of place), served cold: apple smoked bacon; avocado; piquillo pepper; wild arugula; house-made mustard-mayonnaise (house-made).
Worth a look: house-made: Dijonnaise.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.8 | 45th |
| acid | 0.2 | 29th |
| fat | 2.2 | 51st |
| sweet | 0.3 | 42nd |
| umami | 1.2 | 39th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.3 | 79th |
64 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| white bread (inferred from the kind of place) | bread | soft | the frame |
| apple smoked baconscored as Bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +11 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +2 |
| piquillo pepperscored as Roasted Red Pepper | bulk | sweet 2 soft silky wet | −1 |
| wild arugulascored as Arugula | bulk | bitter 2 fresh leafy tender | +6 |
| house-made mustard-mayonnaise (house-made) | 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.
Pairings
- Bacon + Avocado: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
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