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Teriyaki Mushroom Burger at Marvin's of Cotati

1/2 pound beef, melted jack cheese, grilled mushrooms, teriyaki on Burger Bun. Sandwich Score 50, solid. At Marvin's of Cotati, Cotati.

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

Burger BunTeriyaki SauceMonterey JackBeefBurger Bun
50
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +19.

Uncharted, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
72
Harmony
62
Contrast
68
Structure
82
Focus
100
Composition
30
Quality
100
Envelope
94

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: 1/2 pound beef; melted jack cheese; grilled mushrooms; teriyaki.

Balance

salt2.1 · 90thacid0.3 · 34thfat1.9 · 40thsweet1.4 · 90thumami2.5 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.190th
acid0.334th
fat1.940th
sweet1.490th
umami2.590th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

72 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
1/2 pound beefscored as Beefproteinfat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender+6
melted jack cheesescored as Monterey Jackproteinfat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty0
grilled mushroomsnot scored
teriyakiscored as Teriyaki Saucesaucesalt 4 sweet 4 umami 4 saucy silky+2

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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