A sandwich at Jersey Joe's Coastside, a restaurant in Half Moon Bay, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +10.
Reads as a fully realized grilled cheese, two of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: better ingredients (quality 0.80 or better), a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)
More fat 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.
griddled buttermilk bread, toasted: melted american cheese (low tier); butter.
In italics: what the name implies and the menu does not list.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.6 | 76th |
| acid | 0.0 | n/a |
| fat | 3.6 | 90th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 50th |
| umami | 1.2 | 37th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
57 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| griddled buttermilk bread (low tier)scored as White Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| melted american cheese (low tier)scored as American Cheese | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 2 gooey creamy melty | +13 |
| butter | fat | fat 5 creamy silky | +18 |
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
- White Bread + Butter: buttered white toast, the foundation
How to raise it
Commodity bread and lead (white bread, american cheese): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
- Judged as a grilled cheese: richness, thinness and seasoning are not held against it.
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