A sandwich at Moonside Bakery & Cafe, a bakery in Half Moon Bay, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +8.
Reads as a club, five of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
−4 pressed the fresh layers flat
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.
brioche bun, pressed: avocado; chicken; bacon; lettuce; tomato; mozzarella; chipotle aioli.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.0 | 55th |
| acid | 0.2 | 30th |
| fat | 2.7 | 72nd |
| sweet | 0.2 | 29th |
| umami | 1.7 | 62nd |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 38th |
77 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| brioche bunscored as Brioche | bread | fat 2 soft | the frame |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | −1 |
| chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | 0 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +9 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | −2 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +21 |
| mozzarella | protein | fat 3 soft springy melty | 0 |
| chipotle aioli | not scored |
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
- Avocado + Chicken: california logic: green fat on a lean bird
- Avocado + Bacon: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- Chicken + Bacon: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Tomato + Mozzarella: caprese core: milky against sweet acid
How to raise it
- Clear the board: pressed the fresh layers flat (-4).
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.03 short).
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