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Cheesy Ham at Coffee Bazaar Cafe

Deluxe ham, cheese on croissant. Sandwich Score 51, solid. At Coffee Bazaar Cafe, Guerneville.

A sandwich at Coffee Bazaar Cafe, a cafe in Guerneville, California.

CroissantCheese (generic)HamCroissant
51
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +21.

Uncharted, two of six roles, half the layers have no 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
83
Contrast
50
Structure
84
Focus
100
Composition
32
Quality
100
Envelope
91

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.

croissant, served cold: deluxe ham; cheese.

Balance

salt3.0 · 90thacid0.4 · 42ndfat3.4 · 89thsweet0.8 · 84thumami2.8 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt3.090th
acid0.442nd
fat3.489th
sweet0.884th
umami2.890th
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
croissantbreadfat 3 sweet 2 flaky crispythe frame
deluxe hamscored as Hamproteinsalt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender+6
cheesescored as Cheese (generic)proteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 creamy soft gooey+5

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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