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Grilled Cheese at Homemade Cafe

Cheddar cheese on grilled sourdough bread. Sandwich Score 58, solid. At Homemade Cafe, Berkeley.

Grilled Cheese at Homemade Cafe: an illustration of the sandwich.
Illustration, AI-generated

A sandwich at Homemade Cafe, a restaurant in Berkeley, California.

SourdoughCheddar CheeseSourdough
58
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +22.

Uncharted, two of six roles on the board.

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

Balance
94
Harmony
87
Contrast
57
Structure
62
Focus
84
Composition
47
Quality
100
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 sourdough bread, toasted: cheddar cheese.

Balance

salt2.0 · 88thacid1.0 · 70thfat2.7 · 70thsweet0.0umami2.0 · 74thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.088th
acid1.070th
fat2.770th
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.074th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

94 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 sourdough breadscored as Sourdoughbreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
cheddar cheeseproteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey 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.

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