A sandwich at Miss Tomato Sandwiches, a sandwich shop in Daly City, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +12.
Uncharted, three of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
More umami 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: hot link; salami; pepperoni; roast beef; pastrami; turkey; ham; bacon; swiss cheese; miss tomato's top-secret sauce.
Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Miss Tomato Sandwiches's typical score.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.7 | 90th |
| acid | 0.1 | 26th |
| fat | 2.9 | 78th |
| sweet | 0.1 | 21st |
| umami | 3.2 | 90th |
| heat | 0.4 | 78th |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
71 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 |
| hot link | not scored | ||
| salami | protein | salt 4 fat 4 umami 4 chewy silky | +3 |
| pepperoni | protein | salt 4 fat 4 umami 4 heat 2 chewy tender | −1 |
| roast beefscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | −1 |
| pastrami | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | −3 |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +1 |
| ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | 0 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +2 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +6 |
| miss tomato's top-secret sauce | 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
- Salami + Pepperoni: the italian sub's spiced cures
- Salami + Ham: salami and ham, the deli's double cure
- Beef + Swiss Cheese: roast beef and swiss, the deli melt
- Pastrami + Swiss Cheese: melted swiss rounds peppered beef
- Turkey + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Turkey + Swiss Cheese: turkey and swiss, the deli default
- Ham + Swiss Cheese: cured pork and nutty swiss, an old alliance
All the sandwiches at Miss Tomato Sandwiches · The menu this was read from · Build your own in the Sandwich Builder