A sandwich at Buffalo Bill's Brewery, a restaurant in Hayward, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
Reads as a fully realized turkey sandwich, six of six roles on the board.
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.
grilled sourdough, toasted: oven roasted turkey; bacon; avocado; lettuce; tomato; onions; mayonnaise; jalapenos; brown mustard.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.1 | 56th |
| acid | 1.0 | 70th |
| fat | 2.1 | 47th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 26th |
| umami | 1.4 | 45th |
| heat | 0.5 | 85th |
| bitter | 0.3 | 74th |
98 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| grilled sourdoughscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| oven roasted turkeyscored as Turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | 0 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +6 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | 0 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +3 |
| onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | 0 |
| mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | 0 |
| jalapenosscored as Jalapeño | texture | heat 4 crunchy fresh raw | 0 |
| brown mustardscored as Mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | 0 |
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 + Avocado: california club logic: green fat on lean bird
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- Bacon + Avocado: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Bacon + Jalapeño: jalapeno popper logic: green heat and smoke
- Avocado + Jalapeño: green fat against green heat, the taqueria pair
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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