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Spicy Chicken Burger at Falafel Fremont

Crispy chicken, special hot sauce on Burger Bun. Sandwich Score 46, rough. At Falafel Fremont, Fremont.

A burger at Falafel Fremont, a restaurant in Fremont, California.

Burger BunHot Sauce (buffalo)ChickenBurger Bun
46
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +30.

Leans toward a hot chicken sandwich, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
91
Harmony
74
Contrast
65
Structure
68
Focus
100
Composition
35
Quality
100
Envelope
86

−8 heat past the catalog

More heat 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.

burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich), toasted: crispy chicken; special hot sauce (low tier).

Balance

salt1.4 · 68thacid1.1 · 75thfat1.0 · 14thsweet0.4 · 52ndumami1.3 · 39thheat1.5 · 90thbitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.468th
acid1.175th
fat1.014th
sweet0.452nd
umami1.339th
heat1.590th
bitter0.0n/a

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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich)breadsweet 2 soft springythe frame
crispy chickenscored as Chickenproteinumami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender+40
special hot sauce (low tier)scored as Hot Sauce (buffalo)sauceheat 4 acid 3 salt 2 silky saucy wet0

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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