A sandwich at Barefoot Cafe, a restaurant in Fairfax, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +14.
A tuna salad sandwich with layers outside the form; five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More bitter 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.
black bread, served cold: albacore tuna prepared with a touch of curry; roasted sunflower kernels; monterey jack; lettuce; tomato; sprouts.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 63rd |
| acid | 0.6 | 51st |
| fat | 1.8 | 35th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 25th |
| umami | 2.0 | 75th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.5 | 90th |
91 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| black breadscored as Rye Bread | bread | bitter 2 soft crusty | the frame |
| albacore tuna prepared with a touch of curryscored as Tuna Salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | +9 |
| roasted sunflower kernels | not scored | ||
| monterey jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −11 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +5 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +13 |
| sprouts | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +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
- Tuna Salad + Lettuce: cool crunch under rich tuna salad
- Tuna Salad + Tomato: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair
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