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Chicken Burger at Dublin Skillet

Charbroiled chicken breast, swiss cheese, bacon on bun. Sandwich Score 54, solid. At Dublin Skillet, Dublin.

A burger at Dublin Skillet, a restaurant in Dublin, California.

Burger BunBaconSwiss CheeseChickenBurger Bun
54
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +19.

Reads as a chicken bacon melt, three of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
67
Harmony
79
Contrast
60
Structure
88
Focus
100
Composition
42
Quality
78
Envelope
100

More umami 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.

bun, toasted: charbroiled chicken breast; swiss cheese; bacon.

Balance

salt1.9 · 84thacid0.0fat2.7 · 71stsweet0.3 · 37thumami2.6 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.984th
acid0.0n/a
fat2.771st
sweet0.337th
umami2.690th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

68 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
bun (low tier)scored as Burger Bunbreadsweet 2 soft springythe frame
charbroiled chicken breastscored as Chickenproteinumami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender+6
swiss cheeseproteinfat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty+3
baconproteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy+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.

Pairings

How to raise it

Commodity bread (burger bun): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.

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