A burger at Moonside Bakery & Cafe, a bakery 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.
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.
sesame bun, toasted: 6 oz ground turkey; caramelized onions; lettuce; tomato; jack cheese; avocado; lemon aioli.
Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Moonside Bakery & Cafe's typical score.
Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Lemon Aioli.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 0.9 | 50th |
| acid | 0.4 | 42nd |
| fat | 2.4 | 58th |
| sweet | 1.1 | 90th |
| umami | 1.5 | 52nd |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.2 | 70th |
84 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sesame bunscored as Burger Bun | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| 6 oz ground turkey | not scored | ||
| caramelized onionsscored as Caramelized Onion | bulk | sweet 4 umami 3 fat 2 soft silky | +1 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +1 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +10 |
| jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | +19 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | −1 |
| lemon 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.
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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