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Patty Melt at Dublin Skillet

Hamburger patty, american cheese, grilled onions on grilled rye. Sandwich Score 68, very good. At Dublin Skillet, Dublin.

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

Rye BreadOnionAmerican CheeseBeefRye Bread
68
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +18.

Reads as a fully realized cheesesteak, four of six roles, most layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better

Balance
70
Harmony
84
Contrast
75
Structure
88
Focus
100
Composition
79
Quality
81
Envelope
100

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 rye, toasted: hamburger patty; american cheese (low tier); grilled onions.

Balance

salt1.4 · 70thacid0.1 · 26thfat2.5 · 64thsweet0.6 · 70thumami1.9 · 68thheat0.1 · 57thbitter0.5 · 90th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.470th
acid0.126th
fat2.564th
sweet0.670th
umami1.968th
heat0.157th
bitter0.590th

71 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
grilled ryescored as Rye Breadbreadbitter 2 soft crustythe frame
hamburger pattyscored as Beefproteinfat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender+18
american cheese (low tier)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty+13
grilled onionsscored as Oniontexturesweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh+18

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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