A burger at Jersey Joe's Coastside, a restaurant in Half Moon Bay, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
A roast beef with layers outside the form; six of six roles.
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.
burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich), toasted: bbq trail sauce; ribeye blend beef patty; onion strings; cheddar cheese; lettuce; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.5 | 73rd |
| acid | 0.9 | 67th |
| fat | 1.7 | 34th |
| sweet | 1.3 | 90th |
| umami | 1.9 | 68th |
| heat | 0.1 | 50th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 55th |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| bbq trail saucescored as BBQ Sauce | sauce | sweet 4 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy | 0 |
| ribeye blend beef pattyscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | 0 |
| onion stringsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | 0 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +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
- BBQ Sauce + Beef: brisket law: bbq sauce on smoked beef
- BBQ Sauce + Onion: onion sharpens sweet bbq sauce
- BBQ Sauce + Cheddar Cheese: sharp cheddar stands up to sweet bbq
- Beef + Onion: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
- Beef + Cheddar Cheese: the cheeseburger pair: sharp on seared beef
- Onion + Cheddar Cheese: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair
- Cheddar Cheese + Tomato: grilled cheese and tomato, the lunch pair
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: the menu does not name its bread.
All the sandwiches at Jersey Joe's Coastside · The menu this was read from · Build your own in the Sandwich Builder