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Kids Grilled Cheese at Lumpy's Diner

Melted american cheese on grilled white bread. Sandwich Score 40, rough. At Lumpy's Diner, Antioch.

Kids Grilled Cheese at Lumpy's Diner: an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at Lumpy's Diner, a restaurant in Antioch, California.

White BreadAmerican CheeseWhite Bread
40
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +22.

Uncharted, two of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
62
Harmony
38
Contrast
55
Structure
62
Focus
84
Composition
25
Quality
45
Envelope
100

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.

grilled white bread, toasted: melted american cheese (low tier).

Balance

salt2.0 · 88thacid0.0fat2.7 · 70thsweet0.7 · 77thumami1.3 · 43rdheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.088th
acid0.0n/a
fat2.770th
sweet0.777th
umami1.343rd
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

63 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

LayerRoleFlavor and texturePoints
grilled white bread (low tier)scored as White Breadbreadsoftthe frame
melted american cheese (low tier)scored as American Cheeseproteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy meltynot scored

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.

How to raise it

Commodity bread and lead (white bread, american cheese): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.

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