A sandwich at North Park Deli, a deli in Concord, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +20.
Reads as a fully realized egg and cheese, two of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)
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.
buttered english muffin, toasted: scrambled eggs; ham; melted american cheese (low tier); butter.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.8 | 81st |
| acid | 0.0 | n/a |
| fat | 3.3 | 88th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 56th |
| umami | 2.0 | 74th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| buttered english muffinscored as English Muffin | bread | soft | the frame |
| scrambled eggsscored as Egg | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy | −7 |
| ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +2 |
| melted american cheese (low tier)scored as American Cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | +11 |
| butter | fat | fat 5 creamy silky | 0 |
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
- English Muffin + Butter: butter melts into an english muffin's craters
- Egg + American Cheese: diner law: american melts into soft egg
- Ham + Butter: jambon-beurre: sweet butter on salty ham
How to raise it
- Judged as an egg and cheese: richness is not held against it.
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