A sandwich at Westcoast Sourdough - Fremont, a sandwich shop in Fremont, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +14.
A tuna salad sandwich with layers outside the form; six of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
sourdough roll, served cold: house-made tuna salad with albacore tuna, celery, mayonnaise, pickle relish and garlic; house sauce (high tier); lettuce; tomatoes; onions; mustard; cheese.
Worth a look: house-made: Tuna Salad.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 77th |
| acid | 1.5 | 88th |
| fat | 1.6 | 30th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 36th |
| umami | 2.1 | 80th |
| heat | 0.5 | 85th |
| bitter | 0.3 | 81st |
100 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sourdough rollscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| house-made tuna salad with albacore tuna, celery, mayonnaise, pickle relish and garlicscored as Tuna Salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | +12 |
| house sauce (high tier) | not scored | ||
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +4 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | +2 |
| cheesescored as Cheese (generic) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey | −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.
Pairings
- Tuna Salad + Lettuce: cool crunch under rich tuna salad
- Tuna Salad + Tomato: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.15 short).
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