A sandwich at Miss Tomato Sandwiches, a sandwich shop in Daly City, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +10.
Uncharted, six of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More salt 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: ham; bacon; tomato; onion; pickle; pepperoncini; mayonnaise; pesto.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.3 | 90th |
| acid | 1.7 | 90th |
| fat | 2.2 | 52nd |
| sweet | 0.5 | 59th |
| umami | 1.6 | 54th |
| heat | 0.2 | 66th |
| bitter | 0.2 | 60th |
97 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 |
| ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +2 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +1 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +4 |
| onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −1 |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | 0 |
| pepperoncini | acid | acid 4 salt 2 pickled crunchy wet | −3 |
| mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −1 |
| pesto | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 umami 2 creamy saucy | −3 |
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
- Ham + Pickle (cucumber): the cubano lesson: brine cuts cured pork
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
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