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Cheeseburger at Jersey Joe's Coastside

1/4 pound beef patty, cheese, ketchup on Burger Bun. Sandwich Score 53, solid. At Jersey Joe's Coastside, Half Moon Bay.

A burger at Jersey Joe's Coastside, a restaurant in Half Moon Bay, California.

Burger BunKetchupCheese (generic)BeefBurger Bun
53
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +11.

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

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
87
Harmony
71
Contrast
73
Structure
86
Focus
100
Composition
30
Quality
100
Envelope
98

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: 1/4 pound beef patty; cheese; ketchup (low tier).

Balance

salt1.9 · 83rdacid0.8 · 63rdfat2.2 · 52ndsweet1.1 · 90thumami2.0 · 75thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.983rd
acid0.863rd
fat2.252nd
sweet1.190th
umami2.075th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

88 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
burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich)breadsweet 2 soft springythe frame
1/4 pound beef pattyscored as Beefproteinfat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender+2
cheesescored as Cheese (generic)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey+3
ketchup (low tier)saucesweet 3 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy+4

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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