A sandwich at Orange Bowl, a sandwich shop in Campbell, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +8.
Uncharted, five of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
french roll, toasted: sliced pastrami; swiss cheese; peperoncino; lettuce; onions.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 86th |
| acid | 1.3 | 81st |
| fat | 1.5 | 24th |
| sweet | 0.1 | 23rd |
| umami | 1.8 | 64th |
| heat | 0.6 | 88th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 56th |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| french rollscored as Hoagie Roll | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| sliced pastramiscored as Pastrami | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +3 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +4 |
| peperoncinoscored as Pepperoncini | acid | acid 4 salt 2 pickled crunchy wet | +5 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| 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
- Pastrami + Swiss Cheese: melted swiss rounds peppered beef
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