A sandwich at Diablo Foods, a corner store in Lafayette, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +19.
A pastrami on rye with layers outside the form; six of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
toasted rye bread, toasted: pastrami; swiss cheese; bees in your nose mustard; mayo; pickle; red onion; coleslaw.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.2 | 90th |
| acid | 1.8 | 90th |
| fat | 2.2 | 52nd |
| sweet | 0.4 | 52nd |
| umami | 1.5 | 53rd |
| heat | 0.2 | 71st |
| bitter | 0.2 | 70th |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| toasted rye breadscored as Rye Bread | bread | bitter 2 soft crusty | the frame |
| pastrami | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +7 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +6 |
| bees in your nose mustard | not scored | ||
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −4 |
| picklescored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +1 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | −3 |
| coleslaw | bulk | acid 2 fat 2 crunchy creamy dressed | −2 |
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
- Rye Bread + Pastrami: pastrami on rye, the new york standard
- Pastrami + Swiss Cheese: melted swiss rounds peppered beef
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