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Grilled Cheese & Fries at Cafe Benedict

Cheese on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 44, rough. At Cafe Benedict, Cotati.

A sandwich at Cafe Benedict, a cafe in Cotati, California.

White BreadButterCheese (generic)White Bread
44
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +15.

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
35
Harmony
69
Contrast
57
Structure
84
Focus
100
Composition
26
Quality
100
Envelope
99

More fat 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.

white bread (inferred from the name), toasted: cheese; butter.

In italics: what the name implies and the menu does not list.

Balance

salt1.6 · 76thacid0.4 · 42ndfat3.6 · 90thsweet0.0umami1.6 · 55thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.676th
acid0.442nd
fat3.690th
sweet0.0n/a
umami1.655th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

67 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
white bread (inferred from the name)breadsoftthe frame
cheesescored as Cheese (generic)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey−4
butterfatfat 5 creamy silky0

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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