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Grilled Cheese With Ham at Dublin Skillet

Cheese, ham on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 54, solid. At Dublin Skillet, Dublin.

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

White BreadButterHamCheese (generic)White Bread
54
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +28.

A croque monsieur with layers outside the form; two of six roles.

Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
44
Harmony
96
Contrast
60
Structure
88
Focus
100
Composition
49
Quality
100
Envelope
98

More salt 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.

white bread (inferred from the name), toasted: cheese; ham; butter.

In italics: what the name implies and the menu does not list.

Balance

salt2.3 · 90thacid0.3 · 35thfat3.4 · 90thsweet0.3 · 37thumami2.3 · 85thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.390th
acid0.335th
fat3.490th
sweet0.337th
umami2.385th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

70 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
white bread (inferred from the name)breadsoftthe frame
cheesescored as Cheese (generic)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey−4
hamproteinsalt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender+10
butterfatfat 5 creamy silky+4

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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