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Garden Burger at Marvin's of Cotati

Meatless fat free patty, sautéed mushroom, onions on Burger Bun. Sandwich Score 43, rough. At Marvin's of Cotati, Cotati.

A burger at Marvin's of Cotati, a restaurant in Cotati, California.

Burger BunOnionBurger Bun
43
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +31.

Reads as a burger, two of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: complete structure, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
81
Harmony
38
Contrast
80
Structure
37
Focus
42
Composition
34
Quality
100
Envelope
84

More sweet 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.

burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich), toasted: meatless fat free patty; sautéed mushroom; onions.

Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Marvin's of Cotati's typical score.

Balance

salt0.6 · 31stacid0.4 · 40thfat0.6 · 8thsweet2.0 · 90thumami0.4 · 8thheat0.4 · 79thbitter0.4 · 83rd
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.631st
acid0.440th
fat0.68th
sweet2.090th
umami0.48th
heat0.479th
bitter0.483rd

81 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
burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich)breadsweet 2 soft springythe frame
meatless fat free pattynot scored
sautéed mushroomnot scored
onionsscored as Oniontexturesweet 2 crunchy juicy freshnot scored

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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