A sandwich at Summer Kitchen + Bakeshop, a cafe in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +27.
Leans toward an egg salad sandwich, 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.
acme sourdough, toasted: organic egg salad; chives.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 55th |
| acid | 0.8 | 62nd |
| fat | 1.6 | 28th |
| sweet | 0.0 | n/a |
| umami | 1.1 | 31st |
| heat | 0.2 | 68th |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
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 sourdoughscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| organic egg saladscored as Egg Salad | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 creamy soft | +47 |
| chivesscored as Scallion (green onion, chives) | aromatic | fresh herbal crisp | +16 |
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
- Egg Salad + Scallion (green onion, chives): chives lift eggs without shouting
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