A sandwich at La Gastronomia di Porchetta, a restaurant in Fairfax, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid. Small moves left on the board.
Uncharted, five of six roles, few layers have a 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.
focaccia, served cold: roasted pork; mayo; caramelized onions; arugula.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 68th |
| acid | 0.7 | 56th |
| fat | 2.8 | 75th |
| sweet | 0.7 | 77th |
| umami | 1.9 | 67th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.5 | 90th |
87 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| focaccia | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| roasted porkscored as Porchetta | protein | fat 4 umami 4 salt 3 tender juicy crackly | +7 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +4 |
| caramelized onionsscored as Caramelized Onion | bulk | sweet 4 umami 3 fat 2 soft silky | +2 |
| arugula | bulk | bitter 2 fresh leafy tender | +6 |
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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