A sandwich at Jersey Joe's Coastside, a restaurant in Half Moon Bay, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized blt, six of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: better ingredients (quality 0.80 or better)
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.
toasted buttermilk bread, toasted: apple wood smoked bacon; ripe tomatoes; shredded lettuce (low tier); mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 69th |
| acid | 0.9 | 66th |
| fat | 2.8 | 75th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 27th |
| umami | 1.6 | 55th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 48th |
96 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| toasted buttermilk bread (low tier)scored as White Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| apple wood smoked baconscored as Bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +16 |
| ripe tomatoesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +23 |
| shredded lettuce (low tier)scored as Lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +9 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +1 |
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 + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
Commodity bread (white bread): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
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