A sandwich at Bay Area Bagels, a bakery in Burlingame, California.
out of 100 · rough
Rough, with one move worth +28.
Uncharted, five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
−4 pressed the fresh layers flat
−8 heat past the catalog
More heat 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.
white bread (inferred from the kind of place), pressed: chicken; lettuce; tomato; onions; peppers; hot sauce (low tier).
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.9 | 48th |
| acid | 1.2 | 77th |
| fat | 0.6 | 7th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 52nd |
| umami | 1.2 | 36th |
| heat | 1.3 | 90th |
| bitter | 0.3 | 71st |
83 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| white bread (inferred from the kind of place) | bread | soft | the frame |
| chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +11 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +3 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +2 |
| peppersscored as Pepper (bell/hot) | texture | heat 3 crunchy juicy | 0 |
| hot sauce (low tier)scored as Hot Sauce (buffalo) | sauce | heat 4 acid 3 salt 2 silky saucy 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
- Onion + Pepper (bell/hot): peppers and onions, the griddle pair
How to raise it
- Clear the board: heat past the catalog (-8).
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