A sandwich at Moonside Bakery & Cafe, a bakery in Half Moon Bay, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
A burger with layers outside the form; five of six roles.
−5 a wet layer on soft bread
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.
freshly baked sesame bun, served cold: grilled chicken breast; roasted red onions; tomato; lettuce; cheddar cheese.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 69th |
| acid | 0.6 | 55th |
| fat | 1.9 | 40th |
| sweet | 0.6 | 76th |
| umami | 2.1 | 80th |
| heat | 0.1 | 53rd |
| bitter | 0.2 | 60th |
93 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| freshly baked sesame bunscored as Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| grilled chicken breastscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | −7 |
| roasted red onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +27 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +20 |
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +21 |
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
- Onion + Cheddar Cheese: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair
- Tomato + Cheddar Cheese: grilled cheese and tomato, the lunch pair
How to raise it
- Clear the board: a wet layer on soft bread (-5).
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