A sandwich at Blazin Bagelz, a bakery in Gilroy, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized lox bagel, 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.
white bread (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), served cold: smoked salmon; cream cheese; tomato; onion.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.7 | 42nd |
| acid | 0.7 | 58th |
| fat | 2.3 | 54th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 49th |
| umami | 1.7 | 60th |
| heat | 0.1 | 55th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 47th |
89 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| white bread (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one) | bread | soft | the frame |
| smoked salmonscored as Salmon | protein | fat 3 umami 3 soft flaky tender | +25 |
| cream cheese | fat | fat 4 creamy silky smooth | +19 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +14 |
| onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +23 |
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
- Salmon + Cream Cheese: lox logic: rich fish on a cool schmear
- Salmon + Onion: raw onion bite keeps rich lox honest
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: the menu does not name its bread.
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