A sandwich at Blazin Bagelz, a bakery in Gilroy, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +27.
Reads as a turkey sandwich, four of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
Less fat than almost everything in 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), served cold: turkey; sun-dried tomato basil cream cheese; lettuce; tomato.
Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Sun-Dried Tomato Basil Cream Cheese.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.6 | 30th |
| acid | 0.4 | 43rd |
| fat | 0.5 | 6th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 37th |
| umami | 1.4 | 45th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 55th |
70 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 |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | +4 |
| sun-dried tomato basil cream cheese | not scored | ||
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +12 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +15 |
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
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
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