A sandwich at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a chicken bacon melt, 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: fried chicken; bbq sauce; lettuce; tomatoes; swiss cheese.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 69th |
| acid | 0.7 | 57th |
| fat | 1.4 | 21st |
| sweet | 1.3 | 90th |
| umami | 2.0 | 70th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 41st |
92 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 |
| fried chickenscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +2 |
| bbq sauce | sauce | sweet 4 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy | +14 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +13 |
| tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +6 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +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
- Chicken + BBQ Sauce: bbq chicken: sweet smoke glaze on a mild bird
How to raise it
Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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