A burger at New Jersey's Restaurant, a sandwich shop in Campbell, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +9.
Reads as a burger, five of six roles on the board.
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.
burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich), toasted: impossible plant-based patty (named producer); mayo; lettuce; tomato; onions.
Worth a look: named producer: Plant-Based Patty.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.7 | 42nd |
| acid | 1.3 | 82nd |
| fat | 2.2 | 51st |
| sweet | 1.0 | 89th |
| umami | 0.9 | 26th |
| heat | 0.1 | 60th |
| bitter | 0.3 | 72nd |
85 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| impossible plant-based patty (named producer) | not scored | ||
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +18 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +15 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +23 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
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
- Mayonnaise + Tomato: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: the menu does not name its bread.
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