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Cheese Burger at Buffalo Bill's Brewery

Durham ranch ground beef, cheddar on pretzel bun. Sandwich Score 55, solid. At Buffalo Bill's Brewery, Hayward.

A burger at Buffalo Bill's Brewery, a restaurant in Hayward, California.

Pretzel RollCheddar CheeseBeefPretzel Roll
55
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · solid

Solid, with one move worth +34.

Leans toward a roast beef, 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
74
Harmony
91
Contrast
60
Structure
84
Focus
100
Composition
36
Quality
100
Envelope
100

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.

pretzel bun, toasted: durham ranch ground beef (named producer); cheddar.

Worth a look: named producer: Ground Beef.

Balance

salt2.0 · 88thacid0.4 · 42ndfat2.8 · 74thsweet0.0umami2.4 · 88thheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt2.088th
acid0.442nd
fat2.874th
sweet0.0n/a
umami2.488th
heat0.0n/a
bitter0.0n/a

76 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
pretzel bunscored as Pretzel Rollbreadsalt 2 soft chewy crustythe frame
durham ranch ground beef (named producer)scored as Beefproteinfat 3 umami 3 juicy chewy tender+11
cheddarscored as Cheddar Cheeseproteinfat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft gooey melty+13

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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