A sandwich at Domenico's Italian Deli, a deli in Alameda, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +22.
A meatball sub with layers outside the form; five of six roles, half the layers have no 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.
hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), toasted: homemade hand rolled meatballs; provolone; parmesan; pepperoncini; red onion.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.1 | 90th |
| acid | 0.9 | 66th |
| fat | 1.9 | 39th |
| sweet | 0.1 | 21st |
| umami | 2.4 | 86th |
| heat | 0.3 | 72nd |
| bitter | 0.1 | 39th |
97 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 |
| homemade hand rolled meatballsscored as Meatball | protein | umami 4 fat 3 salt 2 soft juicy tender | +5 |
| provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +5 |
| parmesan | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 powdery melty | −3 |
| pepperoncini | acid | acid 4 salt 2 pickled crunchy wet | +6 |
| red onionscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
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
- Meatball + Provolone: provolone melted over the meatball sub
- Meatball + Onion: onion on the meatball sub
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