A sandwich at Diablo Foods, a corner store in Lafayette, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +10.
Reads as a fully realized roast beef, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
More bitter 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.
sliced sourdough, toasted: roast beef; gorgonzola; red onions; mayo.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.3 | 66th |
| acid | 0.7 | 58th |
| fat | 3.1 | 83rd |
| sweet | 0.2 | 24th |
| umami | 1.9 | 70th |
| heat | 0.1 | 52nd |
| bitter | 0.6 | 90th |
89 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| sliced sourdoughscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| roast beefscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +20 |
| gorgonzolascored as Blue Cheese (gorgonzola) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 bitter 2 creamy soft melty | +17 |
| red onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +24 |
| mayoscored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +4 |
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
- Beef + Blue Cheese (gorgonzola): steakhouse pair: blue cheese on beef
- Beef + Onion: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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