A sandwich at Blazin Bagelz, a bakery in Gilroy, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +17.
Reads as a fully realized egg and cheese, three of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: real textural contrast
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: egg; spinach; mushrooms; swiss.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.7 | 39th |
| acid | 0.0 | n/a |
| fat | 1.6 | 30th |
| sweet | 0.0 | n/a |
| umami | 1.7 | 60th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.2 | 58th |
67 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 |
| egg | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy | +9 |
| spinach | bulk | soft fresh leafy | +5 |
| mushroomsscored as Mushroom | bulk | umami 2 soft springy juicy | +1 |
| swissscored as Swiss Cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +19 |
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
- Egg + Spinach: florentine logic: spinach folded into egg
- Mushroom + Swiss Cheese: melted alpine over browned mushroom
All the sandwiches at Blazin Bagelz · The menu this was read from · Build your own in the Sandwich Builder