A sandwich at Marvin's of Cotati, a restaurant in Cotati, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +11.
A club 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.
sour dough bread, toasted: avocado; bacon; turkey; tomato; melted cheese.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.5 | 73rd |
| acid | 0.5 | 48th |
| fat | 2.7 | 71st |
| sweet | 0.1 | 21st |
| umami | 2.1 | 78th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
90 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sour dough breadscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +13 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +20 |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +14 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +23 |
| melted cheesescored as Cheese (generic) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey | −9 |
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
- Avocado + Bacon: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- Avocado + Turkey: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
- Bacon + Turkey: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.02 short).
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