A sandwich at Cozzy Market & Deli, a deli in Cotati, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized veggie panini, four of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More bitter 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.
hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place), served cold: roasted red peppers; olive tapenade; goat cheese; tomato; arugula.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 56th |
| acid | 1.5 | 87th |
| fat | 1.5 | 25th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 67th |
| umami | 1.1 | 31st |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.5 | 90th |
93 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| roasted red peppersscored as Roasted Red Pepper | bulk | sweet 2 soft silky wet | +21 |
| olive tapenadescored as Olives (olive salad, tapenade) | texture | salt 4 fat 3 bitter 2 chewy brined | +20 |
| goat cheesescored as Goat Cheese (chèvre) | protein | fat 4 acid 3 salt 2 umami 2 creamy soft | +29 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +1 |
| arugula | bulk | bitter 2 fresh leafy tender | 0 |
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
- Olives (olive salad, tapenade) + Tomato: olive brine against sweet acid
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.05 short).
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