A sandwich at Bay Area Bagels, a bakery in Burlingame, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
A blt with layers outside the form; six of six roles, most layers have a partner.
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
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.
Bagel (inferred from the kind of sandwich), served cold: baked chicken; bacon; swiss cheese; lettuce; tomato; onion; mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 70th |
| acid | 0.7 | 58th |
| fat | 2.7 | 70th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 36th |
| umami | 1.9 | 68th |
| heat | 0.1 | 50th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 55th |
93 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bagel (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread | soft chewy | the frame |
| baked chicken | not scored | ||
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +17 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −5 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +21 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +32 |
| onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +5 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +4 |
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
- 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
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
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