A sandwich at Miss Tomato Sandwiches, a sandwich shop in Daly City, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +16.
Uncharted, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
−6 sauce overload
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), toasted: turkey; roast beef; onion; bacon; ranch dressing (low tier); garlic mayonnaise; miss tomato's bbq sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.5 | 71st |
| acid | 0.6 | 53rd |
| fat | 2.5 | 63rd |
| sweet | 0.6 | 76th |
| umami | 1.7 | 60th |
| heat | 0.0 | 47th |
| bitter | 0.0 | 36th |
81 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 |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +3 |
| roast beefscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +7 |
| onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +12 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +2 |
| ranch dressing (low tier) | sauce | fat 4 salt 2 creamy saucy | −14 |
| garlic mayonnaisescored as Aioli | sauce | fat 5 creamy silky saucy | −16 |
| miss tomato's bbq saucescored as BBQ Sauce | sauce | sweet 4 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy | +11 |
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
- Turkey + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Beef + Onion: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
- Beef + Aioli: garlic aioli on roast beef
- Beef + BBQ Sauce: brisket law: bbq sauce on smoked beef
- Onion + BBQ Sauce: onion sharpens sweet bbq sauce
- Bacon + Ranch Dressing: bacon ranch, the american fold
- Bacon + BBQ Sauce: smoke on smoke: bacon under bbq sauce
How to raise it
- Clear the board: sauce overload (-6).
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