A sandwich at Jersey Joe's Coastside, a restaurant in Half Moon Bay, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +17.
Reads as a chicken bacon melt, six of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
kaiser roll, toasted: thinly sliced grilled chicken breast; melted american cheese (low tier); lettuce; ripe tomato; onions; honey mustard (low tier).
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 70th |
| acid | 0.7 | 58th |
| fat | 1.4 | 22nd |
| sweet | 1.1 | 90th |
| umami | 1.7 | 58th |
| heat | 0.3 | 73rd |
| bitter | 0.1 | 55th |
94 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 |
| thinly sliced grilled chicken breastscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +14 |
| melted american cheese (low tier)scored as American Cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | +5 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +4 |
| ripe tomatoscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +7 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| honey mustard (low tier) | sauce | sweet 3 salt 2 acid 2 saucy smooth | +10 |
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
- Chicken + Honey Mustard: honey mustard is chicken's dipping sauce
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.18 short).
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