A sandwich at Dino's Sandwich Shop, a sandwich shop in Brentwood, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized turkey sandwich, six of six roles, most layers have a partner.
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), served cold: turkey; bacon; pepper jack; lettuce; tomato; pickles; red onions; mayonnaise; mustard.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.8 | 82nd |
| acid | 1.5 | 88th |
| fat | 1.7 | 34th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 40th |
| umami | 1.4 | 45th |
| heat | 0.3 | 74th |
| bitter | 0.2 | 65th |
96 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 |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +1 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +7 |
| pepper jackscored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −5 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +10 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +15 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | −5 |
| red onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −4 |
| mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −3 |
| 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
- Turkey + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: the menu does not name its bread.
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