A sandwich at The Napa Deli, a deli in Fairfield, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
Reads as a blt, five of six roles on the board.
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.
toasted multigrain bread, toasted: egg salad; bacon; lettuce; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 79th |
| acid | 0.6 | 54th |
| fat | 2.3 | 54th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 27th |
| umami | 1.9 | 68th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.3 | 72nd |
92 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| toasted multigrain breadscored as Whole Wheat Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| egg salad | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 creamy soft | 0 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +29 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +13 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +18 |
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
- Egg Salad + Bacon: the breakfast contract: smoke and yolk
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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