A sandwich at Orange Bowl, a sandwich shop in Campbell, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +14.
A katsu sando with layers outside the form; six of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More acid 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.
hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place), toasted: deep fried chicken cutlet; honey mustard sauce (low tier); pickles; cheese; onion; lettuce; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.1 | 90th |
| acid | 1.7 | 90th |
| fat | 1.5 | 26th |
| sweet | 0.9 | 88th |
| umami | 1.7 | 61st |
| heat | 0.2 | 69th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 51st |
100 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| deep fried chicken cutletscored as Katsu (cutlet) | protein | fat 4 umami 4 salt 2 crispy crunchy fried | +2 |
| honey mustard sauce (low tier)scored as Honey Mustard | sauce | sweet 3 salt 2 acid 2 saucy smooth | +1 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +1 |
| cheesescored as Cheese (generic) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey | −1 |
| onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −1 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft 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.
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