A sandwich at Miss Tomato Sandwiches, a sandwich shop in Daly City, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +9.
A chicken bacon melt with layers outside the form; six of six roles.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More heat 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), toasted: chicken; swiss cheese; sriracha sauce; red onion; lettuce; tomato; garlic mayonnaise; miss tomato's bbq sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 64th |
| acid | 0.9 | 67th |
| fat | 1.6 | 28th |
| sweet | 0.9 | 89th |
| umami | 1.5 | 49th |
| heat | 0.6 | 90th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 48th |
96 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 |
| chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +14 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | −7 |
| sriracha saucescored as Sriracha | sauce | heat 4 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy | +2 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +6 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +10 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +12 |
| garlic mayonnaisescored as Aioli | sauce | fat 5 creamy silky saucy | 0 |
| 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
- Chicken + Sriracha: sriracha heat on mild chicken
- Chicken + Aioli: garlic aioli on mild chicken
- Chicken + BBQ Sauce: bbq chicken: sweet smoke glaze on a mild bird
- Onion + BBQ Sauce: onion sharpens sweet bbq sauce
- Tomato + Aioli: garlic aioli against sweet acid
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.07 short).
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