A sandwich at Dolores Deluxe, a corner store in San Francisco, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +16.
A tuna salad sandwich with layers outside the form; four of six roles, few layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
Acme focaccia, toasted: Cajun spiced tuna salad (house-made); American cheese (low tier); fontina; holy trinity; shredduce; Zapp's Voodoo chips (named producer).
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 87th |
| acid | 0.3 | 36th |
| fat | 2.8 | 75th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 46th |
| umami | 2.1 | 80th |
| heat | 0.1 | 50th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 55th |
76 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Acme focaccia (high tier)scored as Focaccia | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| Cajun spiced tuna salad (house-made)scored as Tuna Salad | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 creamy soft | +9 |
| American cheese (low tier) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | 0 |
| fontina | protein | fat 4 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty gooey | −16 |
| holy trinityscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| shredducescored as Lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| Zapp's Voodoo chips (named producer)scored as Potato Chips | texture | salt 4 fat 3 crunchy crispy | −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
- Tuna Salad + Lettuce: cool crunch under rich tuna salad
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