A sandwich at Diablo Foods, a corner store in Lafayette, California.
out of 100 · rough
Rough, with one move worth +21.
Uncharted, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More salt 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.
dutch crunch roll, served cold: black forest ham; thuringer; bacon; gouda cheese; the works.
Worth a look: rare in the Bay Area (5 or fewer shops): Smoked Sausage.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 3.0 | 90th |
| acid | 0.0 | n/a |
| fat | 3.7 | 90th |
| sweet | 0.6 | 68th |
| umami | 3.1 | 90th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
62 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| dutch crunch roll | bread | soft crackly crusty | the frame |
| black forest hamscored as Ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +3 |
| thuringerscored as Sausage | protein | fat 5 salt 4 umami 4 juicy springy tender | −2 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +1 |
| gouda cheesescored as Gouda | protein | fat 4 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +1 |
| the works | 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
- Ham + Gouda: smoked gouda and ham, smoke on cure
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