A burger at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +29.
An egg and cheese with layers outside the form; four of six roles, most layers have a partner.
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 texas toast, toasted: 1/3 lb beef patty; grilled onions; bacon; swiss cheese; american cheese (low tier); over-hard egg.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.6 | 74th |
| acid | 0.1 | 23rd |
| fat | 2.9 | 78th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 36th |
| umami | 2.3 | 85th |
| heat | 0.1 | 47th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 37th |
70 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 texas toast (low tier)scored as White Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| 1/3 lb beef pattyscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | −12 |
| grilled onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | −9 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −1 |
| american cheese (low tier) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | −8 |
| over-hard eggscored as Egg | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy | +3 |
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 + Swiss Cheese: roast beef and swiss, the deli melt
- Beef + American Cheese: cheesesteak law: melted american on beef
- Bacon + Egg: the breakfast contract: smoke and yolk
- American Cheese + Egg: diner law: american melts into soft egg
How to raise it
Commodity bread (white bread): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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