A sandwich at The Parish Cafe, a sandwich shop in Healdsburg, California.
out of 100 · very good
Very good, with one move worth +9.
Reads as a fully realized egg and cheese, four of six roles, most layers have a partner.
Holding the summit: a finished composition
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.
french bread, served cold: eggs over medium; black forest ham; provolone cheese; spinach; tomato.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 1.4 | 70th |
| acid | 0.2 | 31st |
| fat | 2.0 | 46th |
| sweet | 0.4 | 46th |
| umami | 2.3 | 84th |
| heat | 0.0 | n/a |
| bitter | 0.1 | 54th |
79 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| french breadscored as Baguette | bread | crispy soft flaky | the frame |
| eggs over mediumscored as Egg | protein | fat 3 umami 2 soft creamy springy | +17 |
| black forest hamscored as Ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | 0 |
| provolone cheesescored as Provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +14 |
| spinach | bulk | soft fresh leafy | 0 |
| tomato | texture | acid 3 umami 3 sweet 2 juicy soft fresh | +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.
Pairings
- Egg + Spinach: florentine logic: spinach folded into egg
How to raise it
- Between you and 90: a finished composition (0.05 short).
All the sandwiches at The Parish Cafe · The menu this was read from · Build your own in the Sandwich Builder