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Garden Veggie at Blazin Bagelz

Cream cheese, avocado, cucumber, tomato, sprouts on bagel of your choice. Sandwich Score 56, solid. At Blazin Bagelz, Gilroy.

A sandwich at Blazin Bagelz, a bakery in Gilroy, California.

White BreadSproutsTomatoCucumberAvocadoCream CheeseWhite Bread
56
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +27.

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

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
65
Harmony
79
Contrast
96
Structure
98
Focus
100
Composition
50
Quality
100
Envelope
100

−5 a wet layer on soft bread

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.

white bread (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), served cold: cream cheese; avocado; cucumber; tomato; sprouts.

Balance

salt0.4 · 15thacid0.5 · 49thfat2.2 · 51stsweet0.2 · 24thumami0.8 · 23rdheat0.0bitter0.1 · 42nd
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.415th
acid0.549th
fat2.251st
sweet0.224th
umami0.823rd
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.142nd

65 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
white bread (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one)breadsoftthe frame
cream cheesefatfat 4 creamy silky smooth+9
avocadofatfat 4 creamy soft fresh+2
cucumberbulkcrunchy juicy fresh0
tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+2
sproutstexturecrunchy juicy fresh+5

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

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