A sandwich at Cafe Benedict, a cafe in Cotati, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +19.
Reads as a chicken bacon melt, five of six roles on the board.
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.
sweet french roll, served cold: house marinated grilled chicken; roasted tomatoes; applewood smoked bacon; pepper jack cheese; avocado; lemon aioli.
Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Lemon Aioli.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 65th |
| acid | 0.2 | 30th |
| fat | 2.7 | 71st |
| sweet | 0.1 | 21st |
| umami | 2.1 | 78th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
78 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sweet french rollscored as Hoagie Roll | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| house marinated grilled chickenscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +8 |
| roasted tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +14 |
| applewood smoked baconscored as Bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +14 |
| pepper jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −13 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +6 |
| lemon aioli | not scored |
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 + Avocado: california logic: green fat on a lean bird
- Tomato + Bacon: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Bacon + Avocado: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.17 short).
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