A sandwich at Jersey Joe's Coastside, a restaurant in Half Moon Bay, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good. Small moves left on the board.
Uncharted, six of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
kaiser roll, toasted: beer battered cod; melted cheese; lettuce; ripe tomato; onion; house-made tartar sauce (house-made).
Worth a look: house-made: Tartar Sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 70th |
| acid | 1.1 | 75th |
| fat | 2.0 | 44th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 62nd |
| umami | 1.7 | 59th |
| heat | 0.1 | 50th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 55th |
97 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| kaiser roll | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| beer battered codscored as Cod | protein | umami 3 soft flaky tender | −1 |
| melted cheesescored as Cheese (generic) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey | +1 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| ripe tomatoscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +1 |
| onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| house-made tartar sauce (house-made)scored as Tartar Sauce | sauce | fat 4 acid 3 salt 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.
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