A sandwich at Skillet'z Cafe, a restaurant in Fremont, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
A tuna salad sandwich buried under extra layers; five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
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.
grilled sourdough bread, toasted: grilled tuna salad; pepper jack cheese; jalapeño; avocado; tomatoes; lettuce; bacon.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 67th |
| acid | 0.5 | 48th |
| fat | 2.6 | 67th |
| sweet | 0.1 | 20th |
| umami | 2.0 | 75th |
| heat | 0.2 | 69th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 51st |
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
| Layer | Role | Flavor and texture | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| grilled sourdough breadscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| grilled tuna saladscored as Tuna Salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | 0 |
| pepper jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −1 |
| jalapeño | texture | heat 4 crunchy fresh raw | +2 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +7 |
| tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +25 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +20 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +15 |
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
- Tuna Salad + Tomato: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair
- Tuna Salad + Lettuce: cool crunch under rich tuna salad
- Jalapeño + Avocado: green fat against green heat, the taqueria pair
- Jalapeño + Bacon: jalapeno popper logic: green heat and smoke
- Avocado + Bacon: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- Tomato + Bacon: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Lettuce + Bacon: cool crunch against hot smoke
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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