A sandwich at Bay Area Bagels, a bakery in Burlingame, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +33.
Reads as a turkey sandwich, five of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
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.
Croissant (inferred from the kind of sandwich), served cold: turkey; bacon; avocado; swiss cheese; mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 68th |
| acid | 0.3 | 38th |
| fat | 3.3 | 88th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 26th |
| umami | 1.8 | 66th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Croissant (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread | fat 3 sweet 2 flaky crispy | the frame |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +9 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | −5 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +5 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −1 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −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
- Croissant + Turkey: turkey on a buttery croissant, the cafe standard
- Turkey + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Turkey + Avocado: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
- Turkey + Swiss Cheese: turkey and swiss, the deli default
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- Bacon + Avocado: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
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