A wrap at Buffalo Bill's Brewery, a restaurant in Hayward, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +8.
A hot chicken sandwich with layers outside the form; five of six roles.
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.
spinach tortilla, served cold: fried or grilled chicken breast; avocado; lettuce; pickled onions; cheddar cheese; chipotle sauce.
Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Chipotle Sauce.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.0 | 55th |
| acid | 1.0 | 72nd |
| fat | 2.1 | 47th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 28th |
| umami | 1.5 | 48th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 39th |
96 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| spinach tortillascored as Tortilla | bread | soft | the frame |
| fried or grilled chicken breastscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +21 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | +7 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +9 |
| pickled onionsscored as Pickled Onion | acid | acid 4 pickled wet crunchy | +28 |
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | +6 |
| chipotle sauce | 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.
Pairings
- Chicken + Avocado: california logic: green fat on a lean bird
- Chicken + Pickled Onion: fried chicken's pickle law holds cold too
- Pickled Onion + Cheddar Cheese: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.07 short).
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