A sandwich at Moonside Bakery & Cafe, a bakery in Half Moon Bay, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +12.
A tuna salad sandwich with layers outside the form; four 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.
sliced sourdough bread, toasted: tuna in a blend of seasonings and mayo; sliced tomato; avocado; jack cheese.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 58th |
| acid | 0.6 | 54th |
| fat | 2.6 | 69th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 24th |
| umami | 2.1 | 79th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sliced sourdough breadscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| tuna in a blend of seasonings and mayoscored as Tuna Salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | +8 |
| sliced tomatoscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +18 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +4 |
| jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −12 |
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
- Tuna Salad + Tomato: tuna salad and tomato, the lunch-counter pair
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