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Turkey Burger at Barefoot Cafe

All white meat ground turkey patty, lettuce, tomato, honey mustard, coleslaw on whole wheat bun. Sandwich Score 60, solid. At Barefoot Cafe, Fairfax.

A burger at Barefoot Cafe, a restaurant in Fairfax, California.

Burger BunColeslawHoney MustardTomatoLettuceBurger Bun
60
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +30.

A burger with layers outside the form; four of six roles.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
82
Harmony
69
Contrast
88
Structure
75
Focus
75
Composition
53
Quality
100
Envelope
86

More sweet 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.

whole wheat bun, toasted: all white meat ground turkey patty; lettuce; tomato; honey mustard (low tier); coleslaw.

Balance

salt1.2 · 62ndacid1.5 · 88thfat0.7 · 8thsweet1.9 · 90thumami0.7 · 20thheat0.3 · 77thbitter0.1 · 51st
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.262nd
acid1.588th
fat0.78th
sweet1.990th
umami0.720th
heat0.377th
bitter0.151st

82 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
whole wheat bunscored as Burger Bunbreadsweet 2 soft springythe frame
all white meat ground turkey pattynot scored
lettucetexturecrunchy juicy fresh+5
tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+8
honey mustard (low tier)saucesweet 3 salt 2 acid 2 saucy smooth−4
coleslawbulkacid 2 fat 2 crunchy creamy dressed−2

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.

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