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Classic Breakfast Sandwich at Coffee Bazaar Cafe

2 fried eggs, sausage, bacon or ham, vermont cheddar cheese on unstated bread. Sandwich Score 63, very good. At Coffee Bazaar Cafe, Guerneville.

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

White BreadCheddar CheeseSausageEggWhite Bread
63
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · very good

Very good, with one move worth +22.

Reads as a fully realized egg and cheese, two of six roles on the board.

Holding the summit: a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)

Balance
58
Harmony
78
Contrast
71
Structure
88
Focus
100
Composition
75
Quality
100
Envelope
100

More umami 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.

white bread (inferred from the kind of place), toasted: 2 fried eggs; sausage, bacon or ham; vermont cheddar cheese.

Balance

salt2.0 · 88thacid0.3 · 35thfat3.4 · 90thsweet0.0umami2.6 · 90thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.088th
acid0.335th
fat3.490th
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.690th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

70 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
white bread (inferred from the kind of place)breadsoftthe frame
2 fried eggsscored as Eggproteinfat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy+19
sausage, bacon or hamscored as Sausageproteinfat 5 salt 4 umami 4 juicy springy tender−6
vermont cheddar cheesescored as Cheddar Cheeseproteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty+21

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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