A burger 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 burger, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
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.
whole wheat bun, toasted: the original garden burger patty; shredded lettuce (low tier); ripe tomato; fresh red onions; extra swiss cheese.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.2 | 60th |
| acid | 0.5 | 48th |
| fat | 1.5 | 24th |
| sweet | 0.9 | 88th |
| umami | 1.7 | 63rd |
| heat | 0.1 | 60th |
| bitter | 0.2 | 71st |
92 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| whole wheat bunscored as Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| the original garden burger patty | not scored | ||
| shredded lettuce (low tier)scored as Lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | −1 |
| ripe tomatoscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +11 |
| fresh red onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| extra swiss cheesescored as Swiss Cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +17 |
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.
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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