A sandwich at Dublin Skillet, a restaurant in Dublin, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
A roast beef with layers outside the form; five of six roles.
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.
grilled sourdough, toasted: roast beef; cheddar cheese; tomato; sautéed onions; mushrooms; bacon.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.7 | 78th |
| acid | 0.6 | 52nd |
| fat | 2.3 | 57th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 33rd |
| umami | 2.4 | 88th |
| heat | 0.1 | 49th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 39th |
92 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| grilled sourdoughscored as Sourdough | bread | soft chewy crusty | the frame |
| roast beefscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | 0 |
| cheddar cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty | 0 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +23 |
| sautéed onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +10 |
| mushroomsscored as Mushroom | bulk | umami 2 soft springy juicy | 0 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | 0 |
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
- Sourdough + Cheddar Cheese: grilled cheese law: sharp cheese, tangy crust
- Beef + Cheddar Cheese: the cheeseburger pair: sharp on seared beef
- Beef + Onion: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
- Beef + Mushroom: beef and mushroom, the steakhouse pair
- Cheddar Cheese + Tomato: grilled cheese and tomato, the lunch pair
- Cheddar Cheese + Onion: cheddar and onion, the ploughman's pair
- Cheddar Cheese + Mushroom: browned mushroom under sharp cheddar
- Cheddar Cheese + Bacon: bacon cheddar: smoke and sharp, burger law
- Tomato + Bacon: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Onion + Mushroom: the saute pair: mushroom and onion
- Mushroom + Bacon: bacon salt and smoke deepen mushroom
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: nothing on this sandwich is house-made, named or exceptional.
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