A sandwich at Water Tower Kitchen, a restaurant in Campbell, California.
out of 100 · legendary
Legendary. Every gate clear, the board clean.
Reads as a fully realized turkey sandwich, six 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.
sourdough, toasted: boars head turkey (named producer); bacon; tomato; cucumber; lettuce; white onions; black pepper; mustard; mayo.
Worth a look: named producer: Turkey.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.2 | 61st |
| acid | 1.1 | 73rd |
| fat | 1.6 | 30th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 28th |
| umami | 1.4 | 45th |
| heat | 0.4 | 78th |
| bitter | 0.3 | 72nd |
98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| boars head turkey (named producer)scored as Turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +3 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +12 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +20 |
| cucumber | bulk | crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +12 |
| white onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| black pepper | not scored | ||
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | +1 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +5 |
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
- Turkey + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
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