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Grilled Chicken Sandwich at Slanted Tree Kitchen & Taproom

Grilled chicken, lettuce, tomato, caramelized onion, pesto aioli on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 57, solid. At Slanted Tree Kitchen & Taproom, Fairfield.

A sandwich at Slanted Tree Kitchen & Taproom, a restaurant in Fairfield, California.

Hoagie RollCaramelized OnionTomatoLettuceChickenHoagie Roll
57
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +26.

Uncharted, four of six roles, half the layers have no partner.

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
87
Harmony
63
Contrast
80
Structure
88
Focus
100
Composition
42
Quality
100
Envelope
98

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.

hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place), toasted: grilled chicken; lettuce; tomato; caramelized onion; pesto aioli.

Balance

salt0.7 · 40thacid0.6 · 51stfat1.2 · 17thsweet1.1 · 90thumami2.1 · 80thheat0.0bitter0.3 · 80th
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt0.740th
acid0.651st
fat1.217th
sweet1.190th
umami2.180th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.380th

87 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
hoagie roll (inferred from the kind of place)breadsoft crustythe frame
grilled chickenscored as Chickenproteinumami 3 fat 2 juicy chewy tender+5
lettucetexturecrunchy juicy fresh+6
tomatotextureacid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh+8
caramelized onionbulksweet 4 umami 3 fat 2 soft silky−9
pesto aiolinot scored

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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