A sandwich at Jimtown and Then Sum, a deli in Healdsburg, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +12.
Reads as a fully realized croque monsieur, three of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better
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.
toast, toasted: canadian bacon; swiss cheese; szechuan peppercorn bechamel; fried egg.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.6 | 74th |
| acid | 0.0 | n/a |
| fat | 2.9 | 76th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 55th |
| umami | 2.3 | 84th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
68 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| toast (low tier)scored as White Bread | bread | soft | the frame |
| canadian baconscored as Ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +17 |
| swiss cheese | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +18 |
| szechuan peppercorn bechamelscored as Béchamel | sauce | fat 4 creamy silky saucy | 0 |
| fried eggscored as Egg | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy | 0 |
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
- Ham + Swiss Cheese: cured pork and nutty swiss, an old alliance
How to raise it
Commodity bread (white bread): nothing on the board changes that, and 90 is closed.
- Judged as a croque monsieur: richness is not held against it.
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