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Ultimate at Bay Area Bagels

Fried egg, ham, american cheese on Bagel. Sandwich Score 52, solid. At Bay Area Bagels, Burlingame.

A sandwich at Bay Area Bagels, a bakery in Burlingame, California.

BagelAmerican CheeseHamEggBagel
52
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +20.

Reads as a fully realized egg and cheese, two of six roles on the board.

Holding the summit: real textural contrast, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
67
Harmony
78
Contrast
26
Structure
88
Focus
100
Composition
71
Quality
75
Envelope
100

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: fried egg; ham; american cheese (low tier).

Balance

salt2.0 · 88thacid0.0fat2.9 · 76thsweet0.6 · 70thumami2.3 · 85thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.088th
acid0.0n/a
fat2.976th
sweet0.670th
umami2.385th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

68 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
Bagel (inferred from the kind of sandwich)breadsoft chewythe frame
fried eggscored as Eggproteinfat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy+14
hamproteinsalt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender0
american cheese (low tier)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty+8

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

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