A sandwich at Miss Tomato Sandwiches, a sandwich shop in Daly City, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +13.
Uncharted, six of six roles, most layers have a partner.
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.
hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place), served cold: ham; bacon; swiss cheese; tomato; lettuce; garlic mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 89th |
| acid | 0.4 | 39th |
| fat | 2.9 | 77th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 41st |
| umami | 2.4 | 86th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 38th |
83 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 | +3 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | 0 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −4 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +23 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +17 |
| garlic mayoscored as Aioli | sauce | fat 5 creamy silky saucy | −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
- Ham + Swiss Cheese: cured pork and nutty swiss, an old alliance
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Tomato + Aioli: garlic aioli against sweet acid
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.17 short).
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