A burger at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +14.
Reads as a fully realized roast beef, four of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 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.
grilled rye bread, toasted: 1/3 lb beef patty; swiss cheese; grilled onions.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 56th |
| acid | 0.1 | 26th |
| fat | 2.1 | 50th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 29th |
| umami | 2.3 | 84th |
| heat | 0.1 | 57th |
| bitter | 0.5 | 90th |
71 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 rye breadscored as Rye Bread | bread | bitter 2 soft crusty | the frame |
| 1/3 lb beef pattyscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +18 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +20 |
| grilled onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +13 |
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 + Swiss Cheese: roast beef and swiss, the deli melt
- Beef + Onion: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.09 short).
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