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Veggie at Westcoast Sourdough - Fremont

Avocado, cucumbers, carrots, bell peppers, house sauce, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, mustard, cheese on sourdough roll. Sandwich Score 63, very good. At Westcoast Sourdough - Fremont, Fremont.

A sandwich at Westcoast Sourdough - Fremont, a sandwich shop in Fremont, California.

SourdoughCheese (generic)MustardOnionTomatoLettuceBell PepperCarrotCucumberAvocadoSourdough
63
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +18.

Uncharted, six of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
94
Harmony
73
Contrast
100
Structure
95
Focus
90
Composition
48
Quality
100
Envelope
100

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: avocado; cucumbers; carrots; bell peppers; house sauce (high tier); lettuce; tomatoes; onions; mustard; cheese.

Balance

salt0.9 · 49thacid0.9 · 67thfat1.4 · 22ndsweet0.4 · 46thumami1.1 · 31stheat0.4 · 78thbitter0.3 · 72nd
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.949th
acid0.967th
fat1.422nd
sweet0.446th
umami1.131st
heat0.478th
bitter0.372nd

94 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
sourdough rollscored as Sourdoughbreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
avocadofatfat 4 creamy soft fresh0
cucumbersscored as Cucumberbulkcrunchy juicy fresh0
carrotsscored as Carrottexturecrunchy fresh raw−1
bell peppersscored as Bell Pepperbulkcrunchy juicy fresh+3
house sauce (high tier)not scored
lettucetexturecrunchy juicy fresh+4
tomatoesscored as Tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+4
onionsscored as Oniontexturesweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh+3
mustardsauceacid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth−1
cheesescored as Cheese (generic)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey+4

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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