A sandwich at Bay Area Bagels, a bakery in Burlingame, California.
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)
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
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 88th |
| acid | 0.0 | n/a |
| fat | 2.9 | 76th |
| sweet | 0.6 | 70th |
| umami | 2.3 | 85th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/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
| Layer | Role | Flavor and texture | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bagel (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread | soft chewy | the frame |
| fried eggscored as Egg | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy | +14 |
| ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | 0 |
| american cheese (low tier) | protein | fat 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
- Egg + American Cheese: diner law: american melts into soft egg
How to raise it
- Judged as an egg and cheese: richness is not held against it.
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