A sandwich at Marvin's of Cotati, a restaurant in Cotati, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
A burger with layers outside the form; five of six roles.
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.
Burger Bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich), toasted: chicken breast char-broiled; melted jack cheese; bacon; avocado; lettuce; tomato; onion.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 63rd |
| acid | 0.2 | 32nd |
| fat | 2.5 | 64th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 51st |
| umami | 1.9 | 68th |
| heat | 0.1 | 48th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 51st |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burger Bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| chicken breast char-broiledscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | 0 |
| melted jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −2 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +11 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | −1 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +8 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +15 |
| onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +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
- Chicken + Bacon: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Chicken + Avocado: california logic: green fat on a lean bird
- Bacon + Avocado: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.01 short).
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