A sandwich at Piknik Town Market, a cafe in Guerneville, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Uncharted, six of six roles on the board.
More sweet 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.
biscuit, toasted: bacon; lettuce; tomato; jalapeño jam; garlic aioli.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.2 | 61st |
| acid | 0.9 | 67th |
| fat | 2.6 | 66th |
| sweet | 1.2 | 90th |
| umami | 1.2 | 38th |
| heat | 0.7 | 90th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 41st |
95 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| biscuit (high tier)scored as Buttermilk Biscuit | bread | fat 3 soft flaky fluffy | the frame |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +33 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +20 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +26 |
| jalapeño jamscored as Pepper Jelly (chili jam) | sauce | sweet 4 heat 3 acid 2 smooth | +2 |
| garlic aioliscored as Aioli | sauce | fat 5 creamy silky saucy | +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.
Pairings
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Tomato + Aioli: garlic aioli against sweet acid
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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