A sandwich at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
Leans toward an egg salad sandwich, six of six roles on the board.
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 (inferred from the kind of place), toasted: house-made egg salad (house-made); mayo; lettuce; tomatoes.
Worth a look: house-made: Egg Salad.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 56th |
| acid | 1.2 | 79th |
| fat | 2.5 | 64th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 27th |
| umami | 1.3 | 40th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 48th |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| house-made egg salad (house-made)scored as Egg Salad | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 creamy soft | +11 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +21 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +17 |
| 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
- Egg Salad + Mayonnaise: egg salad core: yolk richness doubled
- Mayonnaise + Tomato: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: the menu does not name its bread.
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