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Pesto Perfection Bagel at Coffee Bazaar Cafe

Feta cheese, cream cheese, sundried tomatoes on bagel. Sandwich Score 51, solid. At Coffee Bazaar Cafe, Guerneville.

A sandwich at Coffee Bazaar Cafe, a cafe in Guerneville, California.

BagelSun-Dried TomatoCream CheeseFetaBagel
51
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +33.

Uncharted, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
94
Harmony
87
Contrast
38
Structure
98
Focus
100
Composition
27
Quality
100
Envelope
100

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.

bagel, served cold: feta cheese; cream cheese; sundried tomatoes.

Balance

salt2.1 · 90thacid1.4 · 85thfat2.6 · 68thsweet0.3 · 41stumami1.5 · 50thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.190th
acid1.485th
fat2.668th
sweet0.341st
umami1.550th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

94 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
bagelbreadsoft chewythe frame
feta cheesescored as Fetaproteinsalt 4 fat 3 acid 2 umami 2 creamy soft−2
cream cheesefatfat 4 creamy silky smooth+4
sundried tomatoesscored as Sun-Dried Tomatotextureumami 4 salt 3 acid 3 sweet 3 chewy soft+5

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.

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