A sandwich at Buffalo Bill's Brewery, a restaurant in Hayward, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized pulled pork sandwich, 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.
ciabatta, served cold: slow roasted pork shoulder; bbq sauce; jalapenos; coleslaw.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.0 | 55th |
| acid | 1.0 | 70th |
| fat | 1.6 | 28th |
| sweet | 1.6 | 90th |
| umami | 1.5 | 49th |
| heat | 0.4 | 78th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 45th |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ciabatta | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| slow roasted pork shoulderscored as Pork | protein | fat 4 umami 4 juicy chewy tender | +33 |
| bbq sauce | sauce | sweet 4 salt 2 acid 2 silky saucy | +22 |
| jalapenosscored as Jalapeño | texture | heat 4 crunchy fresh raw | −1 |
| coleslaw | bulk | acid 2 fat 2 crunchy creamy dressed | +20 |
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
- Pork + BBQ Sauce: pit law: sweet smoke sauce on rich pork
- Pork + Coleslaw: pulled pork wants slaw's cold vinegar snap
- BBQ Sauce + Coleslaw: sweet smoke sauce wants slaw's vinegar snap
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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