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Monte Cristo at Skillet'z Cafe

Ham, turkey, cheese, powdered sugar on french toast slices. Sandwich Score 48, rough. At Skillet'z Cafe, Fremont.

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

White BreadCheese (generic)TurkeyHamWhite Bread
48
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +13.

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
72
Harmony
69
Contrast
60
Structure
88
Focus
100
Composition
25
Quality
78
Envelope
98

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.

french toast slices, toasted: ham; turkey; cheese; powdered sugar.

Worth a look: ingredient not in the pantry: Powdered Sugar.

Balance

salt2.3 · 90thacid0.3 · 35thfat2.3 · 55thsweet0.3 · 37thumami2.6 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.390th
acid0.335th
fat2.355th
sweet0.337th
umami2.690th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

73 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
french toast slices (low tier)scored as White Breadbreadsoftthe frame
hamproteinsalt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender+4
turkeyproteinumami 2 soft juicy tender−1
cheesescored as Cheese (generic)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey+3
powdered sugarnot 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.

How to raise it

Commodity bread (white bread): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.

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