A sandwich at Marvin's of Cotati, a restaurant in Cotati, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +25.
Uncharted, five of six roles, half the layers have no partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
More acid 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.
french roll, served cold: marinated boneless breast char-broiled; jack cheese; lettuce; tomato; pickles.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.0 | 89th |
| acid | 1.9 | 90th |
| fat | 1.0 | 13th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 65th |
| umami | 0.9 | 27th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 47th |
91 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| french rollscored as Hoagie Roll | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| marinated boneless breast char-broiled | not scored | ||
| jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | +13 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +3 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +3 |
| picklesscored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | −6 |
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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