A sandwich at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +19.
A chicken bacon melt with layers outside the form; five of six roles.
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 sourdough, toasted: grilled chicken; bacon; swiss cheese; grilled onions; bell peppers; teriyaki sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.8 | 82nd |
| acid | 0.3 | 37th |
| fat | 1.7 | 32nd |
| sweet | 0.9 | 88th |
| umami | 2.4 | 88th |
| heat | 0.1 | 48th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 38th |
79 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 sourdoughscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| grilled chickenscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +11 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +2 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −7 |
| grilled onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +8 |
| bell peppersscored as Bell Pepper | bulk | crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| teriyaki sauce | sauce | salt 4 sweet 4 umami 4 saucy silky | +10 |
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 + Bacon: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Chicken + Teriyaki Sauce: teriyaki is grilled chicken's glaze
- Onion + Bell Pepper: peppers and onions, the griddle pair
- Onion + Teriyaki Sauce: the sweet onion in the glaze
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.13 short).
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