· 1 min read

Grilled Bacon & Cheese at Skillet'z Cafe

Grilled bacon, cheese on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 46, rough. At Skillet'z Cafe, Fremont.

A sandwich at Skillet'z Cafe, a restaurant in Fremont, California.

Hoagie RollCheese (generic)BaconHoagie Roll
46
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +15.

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

Holding the summit: a finished composition

Balance
47
Harmony
61
Contrast
60
Structure
84
Focus
100
Composition
30
Quality
100
Envelope
97

More salt 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 bacon; cheese.

Balance

salt2.4 · 90thacid0.4 · 42ndfat3.2 · 85thsweet0.0umami2.4 · 87thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.490th
acid0.442nd
fat3.285th
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.487th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

75 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 baconscored as Baconproteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 crispy chewy+2
cheesescored as Cheese (generic)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey+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.

Build this sandwich

Load its stack into the Sandwich Builder. Swap a layer, watch the score move.

Open in the builder

Read next