A sandwich at Domenico's Italian Deli, a deli in Alameda, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +9.
Reads as a fully realized chicken parm, four of six roles, most layers have a partner.
More umami 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.
hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), toasted: boneless skinless chicken breast; homemade red marinara sauce; provolone; parmesan cheese.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 88th |
| acid | 0.6 | 54th |
| fat | 2.0 | 45th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 51st |
| umami | 2.9 | 90th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
95 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 |
| boneless skinless chicken breastscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | +4 |
| homemade red marinara saucescored as Marinara | sauce | acid 3 umami 3 salt 2 sweet 2 soft saucy wet | +28 |
| provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +1 |
| parmesan cheesescored as Parmesan | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 powdery melty | +13 |
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
- Marinara + Parmesan: parmesan salts the marinara's sweetness
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: the menu does not name its bread.
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