A burger at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +35.
A burger with layers outside the form; four of six roles.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
More fat than 90% of the catalog.
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.
bun, toasted: hand-formed beef patty with chopped bacon, jalapeños, fresh garlic and cheddar cheese; bacon; cheddar cheese; spicy house mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.9 | 85th |
| acid | 0.4 | 44th |
| fat | 3.6 | 90th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 30th |
| umami | 2.3 | 84th |
| heat | 0.4 | 81st |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
73 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| bun (low tier)scored as Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| hand-formed beef patty with chopped bacon, jalapeños, fresh garlic and cheddar cheesescored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +1 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | −3 |
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +4 |
| spicy house mayoscored as Chipotle Mayo | sauce | fat 5 heat 2 creamy saucy | −1 |
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 + Cheddar Cheese: the cheeseburger pair: sharp on seared beef
- Bacon + Cheddar Cheese: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- Bacon + Chipotle Mayo: smoke on smoke, chipotle and bacon
- Cheddar Cheese + Chipotle Mayo: smoky heat in sharp fat, the southwest melt
How to raise it
Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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