A sandwich at Buffalo Bill's Brewery, a restaurant in Hayward, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +14.
Reads as a chicken bacon melt, six of six roles, most 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.
ciabatta, served cold: grilled chicken; bacon; pepper jack cheese; lettuce; onions; tomato; homemade spicy buffalo sauce (house-made); garlic aioli.
Worth a look: house-made: Buffalo Sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 67th |
| acid | 0.4 | 41st |
| fat | 2.5 | 65th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 30th |
| umami | 1.9 | 68th |
| heat | 0.1 | 48th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 51st |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciabatta | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| grilled chickenscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +6 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +15 |
| pepper jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −10 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +14 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +22 |
| homemade spicy buffalo sauce (house-made) | not scored | ||
| garlic aioliscored as Aioli | sauce | fat 5 creamy silky saucy | −3 |
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
- Chicken + Bacon: chicken club logic: smoke on a lean bird
- Chicken + Aioli: garlic aioli on mild chicken
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Tomato + Aioli: garlic aioli against sweet acid
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.05 short).
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