A sandwich at Moonside Bakery & Cafe, a bakery in Half Moon Bay, California.
out of 100 · legendary
Legendary. Every gate clear, the board clean.
A club with layers outside the form; five of six roles.
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.
sourdough, toasted: turkey; crispy bacon; fresh tomato slices; fresh mozarella (high tier); green leaf lettuce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 65th |
| acid | 0.3 | 38th |
| fat | 2.0 | 42nd |
| sweet | 0.1 | 23rd |
| umami | 1.7 | 60th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 40th |
87 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | −2 |
| crispy baconscored as Bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +15 |
| fresh tomato slicesscored as Tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +33 |
| fresh mozarella (high tier)scored as Fresh Mozzarella | protein | fat 3 soft creamy melty | +1 |
| green leaf lettucescored as Lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +8 |
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
- Turkey + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Tomato + Fresh Mozzarella: caprese core: milky against sweet acid
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