A sandwich at Skillet'z Cafe, a restaurant in Fremont, California.
out of 100 · outstanding
Outstanding, and the road to 90 is open.
Reads as a fully realized club, six of six roles on the board.
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: Turkey; Ham; bacon; lettuce; tomato; mayonnaise.
In italics: what the name implies and the menu does not list.
Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Skillet'z Cafe's typical score.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.8 | 83rd |
| acid | 0.5 | 50th |
| fat | 2.5 | 64th |
| sweet | 0.3 | 41st |
| umami | 2.2 | 81st |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 38th |
88 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| white bread (inferred from the name) | bread | soft | the frame |
| Turkey | protein | umami 2 soft juicy tender | −1 |
| Ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | −2 |
| bacon | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy | +3 |
| lettuce | texture | crunchy juicy fresh | +10 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +21 |
| mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | +3 |
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
- Turkey + Bacon: lean bird borrows the pig's smoke
- Turkey + Tomato: lean bird and summer tomato, the deli standard
- Turkey + Mayonnaise: turkey and mayo, the deli default
- Bacon + Lettuce: cool crunch against hot smoke
- Bacon + Tomato: smoke against sweet acid, the blt core
- Tomato + Mayonnaise: summer tomato sandwich: acid on rich
How to raise it
- Outstanding, not legendary: the menu does not name its bread.
All the sandwiches at Skillet'z Cafe · The menu this was read from · Build your own in the Sandwich Builder