A sandwich at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +12.
Uncharted, six of six roles on the board.
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.
grilled texas toast, toasted: bacon; lettuce; guacamole; swiss cheese; tomatoes.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.6 | 74th |
| acid | 0.4 | 45th |
| fat | 2.6 | 69th |
| sweet | 0.1 | 23rd |
| umami | 2.0 | 70th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 41st |
87 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| grilled texas toast (low tier)scored as White Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +13 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +11 |
| guacamole | sauce | fat 4 creamy fresh | −8 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −9 |
| tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +18 |
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
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
How to raise it
Commodity bread (white bread): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.11 short).
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