A sandwich at Blazin Bagelz, a bakery in Gilroy, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Uncharted, four of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More salt than 90% of the catalog.
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), toasted: pepperoni; tomato sauce; melted parmesan; mozzarella.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.5 | 90th |
| acid | 0.6 | 54th |
| fat | 2.5 | 63rd |
| sweet | 0.4 | 51st |
| umami | 2.7 | 90th |
| heat | 0.5 | 83rd |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
97 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 |
| pepperoni | protein | salt 4 fat 4 umami 4 heat 2 chewy tender | +3 |
| tomato saucescored as Marinara | sauce | acid 3 umami 3 salt 2 sweet 2 soft saucy wet | +29 |
| melted parmesanscored as Parmesan | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 powdery melty | +2 |
| mozzarella | protein | fat 3 soft springy melty | +14 |
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
- Pepperoni + Marinara: pizza law: pepperoni in the red sauce
- Pepperoni + Mozzarella: pizza law: pepperoni under the melt
- Marinara + Parmesan: parmesan salts the marinara's sweetness
- Parmesan + Mozzarella: milky stretch under salty parmesan
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.04 short).
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