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Swiss Albacore Tuna Melt at Copenhagen Bakery & Cafe

Albacore tuna, swiss cheese on sourdough bread. Sandwich Score 49, rough. At Copenhagen Bakery & Cafe, Burlingame.

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

SourdoughSwiss CheeseTunaSourdough
49
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +30.

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
76
Harmony
61
Contrast
68
Structure
82
Focus
100
Composition
25
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.

sourdough bread, toasted: albacore tuna; swiss cheese.

Balance

salt1.2 · 61stacid0.2 · 31stfat2.0 · 44thsweet0.0umami2.4 · 87thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.261st
acid0.231st
fat2.044th
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.487th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

76 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
albacore tunascored as Tunaproteinumami 3 fat 2 soft flaky tender+5
swiss cheeseproteinfat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty+6

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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