A burger at Susie Q's Pizza, a restaurant in Hayward, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +14.
Reads as a burger, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a focused, restrained build
More acid 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.
burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich), toasted: veggie patty; lettuce; tomato; onion; pickles; mustard; mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.8 | 81st |
| acid | 2.5 | 90th |
| fat | 1.2 | 17th |
| sweet | 0.8 | 82nd |
| umami | 0.7 | 20th |
| heat | 0.5 | 85th |
| bitter | 0.4 | 82nd |
90 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| veggie patty | not scored | ||
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +9 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +11 |
| onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −2 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | −2 |
| mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | −2 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +15 |
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
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a focused, restrained build (0.07 short).
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