A hot dog at The Smokehouse, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid. Small moves left on the board.
Uncharted, six of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
−6 sauce overload
More sweet 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.
hot dog bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich), toasted: hot dog (low tier); cheese; mustard; ketchup (low tier); relish; onions.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.2 | 90th |
| acid | 1.5 | 90th |
| fat | 1.5 | 27th |
| sweet | 1.6 | 90th |
| umami | 1.6 | 57th |
| heat | 0.5 | 87th |
| bitter | 0.2 | 66th |
98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| hot dog bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| hot dog (low tier) | protein | salt 4 fat 4 umami 3 springy juicy tender | −2 |
| cheesescored as Cheese (generic) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey | +1 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | −5 |
| ketchup (low tier) | sauce | sweet 3 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy | −6 |
| relishscored as Chutney | sauce | sweet 4 acid 3 soft saucy | −7 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
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 lead (hot dog): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
- Clear the board: sauce overload (-6).
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