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 tuna salad sandwich, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
−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: tuna; avocado; swiss; tomato; sprouts; half pickle.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 70th |
| acid | 1.2 | 76th |
| fat | 1.8 | 35th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 41st |
| umami | 1.5 | 53rd |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 38th |
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 |
| tuna | protein | umami 3 fat 2 soft flaky tender | +22 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +2 |
| swissscored as Swiss Cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | 0 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | 0 |
| sprouts | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +2 |
| half picklescored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +3 |
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
- Tuna + Tomato: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair
- Tuna + Pickle (cucumber): relish logic: sour crunch in rich tuna
- Avocado + Sprouts: california crunch on green fat
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
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