A sandwich at Roadees Cafe, a sandwich shop in Brentwood, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +12.
A turkey sandwich with layers outside the form; six of six roles.
Holding the summit: a focused, restrained build
−6 sauce overload
More acid 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 (inferred from the kind of sandwich), served cold: pastrami; turkey; bacon; swiss cheese; garlic sauce; mayo; mustard; lettuce; tomato; onions; pickles; pepperoncini.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.1 | 90th |
| acid | 1.6 | 90th |
| fat | 1.9 | 39th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 29th |
| umami | 1.6 | 54th |
| heat | 0.5 | 85th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 56th |
99 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 (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| pastrami | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | −2 |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | 0 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +1 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | 0 |
| garlic sauce | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 creamy saucy | −12 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −12 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | −6 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +2 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +4 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | −7 |
| pepperoncini | acid | acid 4 salt 2 pickled crunchy wet | −6 |
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
- Turkey + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Turkey + Swiss Cheese: turkey and swiss, the deli default
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Mayonnaise + Tomato: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Clear the board: sauce overload (-6).
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