A sandwich at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +15.
Reads as a fully realized roast beef, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
More umami 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, toasted: juicy ball tip beef; provolone cheese; grilled onions; au jus.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.5 | 74th |
| acid | 0.1 | 24th |
| fat | 1.9 | 38th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 24th |
| umami | 2.7 | 90th |
| heat | 0.1 | 52nd |
| bitter | 0.1 | 43rd |
70 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 | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| juicy ball tip beefscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +17 |
| provolone cheesescored as Provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +15 |
| grilled onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +6 |
| au jus | sauce | umami 4 salt 3 saucy wet | −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 + Provolone: philly logic: sharp provolone on beef
- Beef + Onion: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.10 short).
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