A sandwich at Dino's Sandwich Shop, a sandwich shop in Brentwood, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +11.
Uncharted, six of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: a focused, restrained build
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.
hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), toasted: pastrami; bacon; prosciutto (high tier); swiss; cheddar; lettuce; tomato; pickles; red onions; mayonnaise; mustard.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.5 | 90th |
| acid | 1.4 | 84th |
| fat | 2.3 | 57th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 31st |
| umami | 2.2 | 82nd |
| heat | 0.3 | 77th |
| bitter | 0.2 | 59th |
100 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| pastrami | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | −7 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | −7 |
| prosciutto (high tier) | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 silky chewy tender | −8 |
| swissscored as Swiss Cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −11 |
| cheddarscored as Cheddar Cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | −10 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | −2 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +1 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | −9 |
| red onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −3 |
| mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −9 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | −5 |
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
- Pastrami + Swiss Cheese: melted swiss rounds peppered beef
- Pastrami + Mustard: deli law: sharp mustard against cured beef
- Bacon + Cheddar Cheese: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Cheddar Cheese + Tomato: grilled cheese and tomato, the lunch pair
- Cheddar Cheese + Onion: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair
- Cheddar Cheese + Mustard: ploughman's law: sharp cheese, sharp mustard
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
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