A wrap at Slanted Tree Kitchen & Taproom, a restaurant in Fairfield, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +10.
A club with layers outside the form; five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
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.
wrap, toasted: applewood smoked bacon; turkey; grilled chicken; tomato; scallions; avocado; cheese.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 66th |
| acid | 0.3 | 36th |
| fat | 2.4 | 60th |
| sweet | 0.1 | 19th |
| umami | 2.1 | 79th |
| heat | 0.1 | 49th |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
80 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| wrapscored as Tortilla | bread | soft | the frame |
| applewood smoked baconscored as Bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +16 |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +12 |
| grilled chickenscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +9 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +20 |
| scallionsscored as Scallion (green onion, chives) | aromatic | fresh herbal crisp | 0 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +14 |
| cheesescored as Cheese (generic) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey | −3 |
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
- Bacon + Turkey: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Bacon + Chicken: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Bacon + Avocado: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Turkey + Avocado: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
- Chicken + Avocado: california logic: green fat on a lean bird
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.07 short).
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