A burger at Dublin Skillet, a restaurant in Dublin, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent, with one move worth +10.
A roast beef with layers outside the form; five of six roles.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
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: teriyaki sauce; grilled onions; mushrooms; swiss cheese; beef patty.
In italics: what the name implies and the menu does not list.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.8 | 82nd |
| acid | 0.3 | 35th |
| fat | 1.5 | 26th |
| sweet | 1.2 | 90th |
| umami | 2.6 | 90th |
| heat | 0.1 | 50th |
| bitter | 0.1 | 40th |
74 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| burger bun (inferred from the kind of sandwich) | bread | sweet 2 soft springy | the frame |
| teriyaki sauce | sauce | salt 4 sweet 4 umami 4 saucy silky | +3 |
| grilled onionsscored as Onion | texture | sweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh | +17 |
| mushroomsscored as Mushroom | bulk | umami 2 soft springy juicy | +6 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | 0 |
| beef pattyscored as Beef | protein | fat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender | +9 |
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
- Teriyaki Sauce + Onion: the sweet onion in the glaze
- Onion + Mushroom: the saute pair: mushroom and onion
- Onion + Beef: onions sweeten seared beef, philly style
- Mushroom + Swiss Cheese: melted alpine over browned mushroom
- Mushroom + Beef: beef and mushroom, the steakhouse pair
- Swiss Cheese + Beef: roast beef and swiss, the deli melt
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: balance 0.80 or better (0.06 short).
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