A sandwich at Nick's Sandwiches Concord, a sandwich shop in Concord, California.
out of 100 · rough
Rough, with one move worth +20.
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)
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.
hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place), served cold: grilled chicken breast; ham; swiss cheese.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 88th |
| acid | 0.0 | n/a |
| fat | 2.3 | 55th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 37th |
| umami | 2.9 | 90th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
68 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
| Layer | Role | Flavor and texture | Points |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| grilled chicken breastscored as Chicken | protein | umami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender | −3 |
| ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +3 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +3 |
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.
Pairings
- Ham + Swiss Cheese: cured pork and nutty swiss, an old alliance
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