A sandwich at Barefoot Cafe, a restaurant in Fairfax, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized club, six of six roles on the board.
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.
dutch crunch roll, served cold: breaded seasoned chicken breast; smoked applewood bacon; avocado; monterey jack; lettuce; tomato; mayonnaise.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 64th |
| acid | 0.5 | 45th |
| fat | 3.0 | 80th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 26th |
| umami | 1.8 | 64th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | 37th |
85 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| dutch crunch roll | bread | soft crackly crusty | the frame |
| breaded seasoned chicken breastscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +1 |
| smoked applewood baconscored as Bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +7 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | 0 |
| monterey jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −5 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +12 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +21 |
| mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +1 |
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 + Bacon: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Chicken + Avocado: california logic: green fat on a lean bird
- Bacon + Avocado: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.03 short).
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