A burger at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +10.
Reads as a fully realized roast beef, four of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: better ingredients (quality 0.80 or better)
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.
two grilled cheese sandwiches, toasted: two 1/3 lb beef patties; onions; jalapeños; cheddar cheese; chili.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 64th |
| acid | 0.5 | 49th |
| fat | 2.3 | 54th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 27th |
| umami | 2.0 | 76th |
| heat | 0.5 | 84th |
| bitter | 0.2 | 63rd |
84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| two grilled cheese sandwiches (low tier)scored as White Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| two 1/3 lb beef pattiesscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +14 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +10 |
| jalapeñosscored as Jalapeño | texture | heat 4 crunchy fresh raw | +1 |
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +23 |
| chili | not scored |
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 + Onion: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
- Beef + Cheddar Cheese: the cheeseburger pair: sharp on seared beef
- Onion + Cheddar Cheese: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair
- Jalapeño + Cheddar Cheese: jalapeno cheddar: green heat in sharp fat
How to raise it
Commodity bread (white bread): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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