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Grilled Ham & Cheese at Digger's Diner

Ham, cheese on toast. Sandwich Score 50, solid. At Digger's Diner, Concord.

A sandwich at Digger's Diner, a restaurant in Concord, California.

Hoagie RollCheese (generic)HamHoagie Roll
50
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +17.

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
80
Contrast
60
Structure
84
Focus
100
Composition
26
Quality
100
Envelope
92

More salt 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.

hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place), toasted: ham; cheese.

Balance

salt2.8 · 90thacid0.4 · 42ndfat2.8 · 74thsweet0.4 · 50thumami2.8 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.890th
acid0.442nd
fat2.874th
sweet0.450th
umami2.890th
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
hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place)breadsoft crustythe frame
hamproteinsalt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender+6
cheesescored as Cheese (generic)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey+5

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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