A burger at Marvin's of Cotati, a restaurant in Cotati, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +28.
Reads as a burger, three of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
More acid 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.
burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich), toasted: ground turkey patty char-broiled; lettuce; tomato; pickles.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.3 | 90th |
| acid | 2.8 | 90th |
| fat | 0.2 | 3rd |
| sweet | 1.2 | 90th |
| umami | 0.4 | 10th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 56th |
60 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 |
| ground turkey patty char-broiled | not scored | ||
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +11 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +2 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | 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.
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