A burger at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding. Small moves left on the board.
A roast beef with layers outside the form; six of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: better ingredients (quality 0.80 or better)
More sweet 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.
bun, toasted: 1/3 lb beef patty; grilled pineapple; swiss cheese; mayo; lettuce; tomato; teriyaki sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 77th |
| acid | 0.8 | 61st |
| fat | 2.2 | 52nd |
| sweet | 1.1 | 90th |
| umami | 2.3 | 84th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 38th |
95 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bun (low tier)scored as Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| 1/3 lb beef pattyscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +2 |
| grilled pineapplescored as Pineapple | garnish | sweet 4 acid 3 juicy fresh raw | +1 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | 0 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +5 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +9 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +8 |
| teriyaki sauce | sauce | salt 4 sweet 4 umami 4 saucy silky | +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
- Beef + Swiss Cheese: roast beef and swiss, the deli melt
- Pineapple + Teriyaki Sauce: hawaiian logic: glaze and grilled fruit
- Mayonnaise + Tomato: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
- Mayonnaise + Teriyaki Sauce: teriyaki mayo, the japanese burger
- Lettuce + Teriyaki Sauce: cool leaf under sweet soy glaze
How to raise it
Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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