A sandwich at Inverness Park Market, a deli in Inverness, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized egg and cheese, five of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
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.
hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), toasted: local organic scrambled egg; cheddar cheese; ham; bacon; avocado; jalapeno; tomato; choice of spread.
Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Spread.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 78th |
| acid | 0.4 | 39th |
| fat | 3.0 | 79th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 34th |
| umami | 2.3 | 84th |
| heat | 0.2 | 66th |
| bitter | 0.0 | 37th |
82 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| local organic scrambled eggscored as Egg | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy | 0 |
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | 0 |
| ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | −3 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | 0 |
| avocado | fat | fat 4 creamy soft fresh | −2 |
| jalapenoscored as Jalapeño | texture | heat 4 crunchy fresh raw | +3 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +10 |
| choice of spread | 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
- Egg + Cheddar Cheese: cheddar melts into soft egg, diner law
- Egg + Bacon: the breakfast contract: smoke and yolk
- Egg + Avocado: avocado toast law: green fat under soft egg
- Cheddar Cheese + Bacon: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- Cheddar Cheese + Jalapeño: jalapeno cheddar: green heat in sharp fat
- Cheddar Cheese + Tomato: grilled cheese and tomato, the lunch pair
- Bacon + Avocado: smoke and salt lift buttery avocado
- Bacon + Jalapeño: jalapeno popper logic: green heat and smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Avocado + Jalapeño: green fat against green heat, the taqueria pair
How to raise it
- Judged as an egg and cheese: richness is not held against it.
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.01 short).
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