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Teriyaki Chicken at Dublin Skillet

Teriyaki chicken, mushroom, onions on grilled sourdough. Sandwich Score 46, rough. At Dublin Skillet, Dublin.

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

SourdoughOnionMushroomSourdough
46
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +31.

Uncharted, two of six roles, few layers have a partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
54
Harmony
71
Contrast
80
Structure
59
Focus
75
Composition
25
Quality
100
Envelope
96

Less fat than almost everything in 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.

grilled sourdough, toasted: teriyaki chicken; mushroom; onions.

Balance

salt0.4 · 19thacid0.6 · 52ndfat0.0sweet0.4 · 54thumami1.1 · 32ndheat0.2 · 68thbitter0.2 · 66th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.419th
acid0.652nd
fat0.0n/a
sweet0.454th
umami1.132nd
heat0.268th
bitter0.266th

54 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 sourdoughscored as Sourdoughbreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
teriyaki chickennot scored
mushroombulkumami 2 soft springy juicy+8
onionsscored as Oniontexturesweet 2 crunchy juicy fresh+7

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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