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French Dip at Copenhagen Bakery & Cafe

Roast beef on sourdough bread. Sandwich Score 51, solid. At Copenhagen Bakery & Cafe, Burlingame.

A sandwich at Copenhagen Bakery & Cafe, a bakery in Burlingame, California.

SourdoughAu JusBeefSourdough
51
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +16.

Leans toward a french dip, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
77
Harmony
66
Contrast
57
Structure
66
Focus
100
Composition
35
Quality
100
Envelope
98

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.

sourdough bread, toasted: roast beef; au jus.

In italics: what the name implies and the menu does not list.

Balance

salt1.5 · 74thacid0.2 · 31stfat1.6 · 30thsweet0.0umami2.8 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.574th
acid0.231st
fat1.630th
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.890th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

77 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
sourdough breadscored as Sourdoughbreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
roast beefscored as Beefproteinfat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender+37
au jussauceumami 4 salt 3 saucy wet+8

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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