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Tuna Melt at New Jersey's Restaurant

Tuna, cheddar on toasted sourdough. Sandwich Score 52, solid. At New Jersey's Restaurant, Campbell.

A sandwich at New Jersey's Restaurant, a sandwich shop in Campbell, California.

SourdoughCheddar CheeseTunaSourdough
52
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +35.

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
88
Harmony
78
Contrast
60
Structure
84
Focus
100
Composition
27
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.

toasted sourdough, toasted: tuna; cheddar.

Balance

salt1.6 · 76thacid0.6 · 53rdfat2.4 · 60thsweet0.0umami2.4 · 87thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.676th
acid0.653rd
fat2.460th
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.487th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

88 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
toasted sourdoughscored as Sourdoughbreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
tunaproteinumami 3 fat 2 soft flaky tender−6
cheddarscored as Cheddar Cheeseproteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty+9

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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