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Turkey Reuben at Inverness Park Market

House brined and smoked turkey breast, local sauerkraut, local toma cheese, house dressing on grilled brickmaiden battard sourdough. Sandwich Score 43, rough. At Inverness Park Market, Inverness.

A sandwich at Inverness Park Market, a deli in Inverness, California.

SourdoughSauerkrautTurkeySourdough
43
Sandwich Score
out of 100 · rough

Rough, with one move worth +25.

Uncharted, two of six roles, few layers have a partner.

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

Balance
70
Harmony
30
Contrast
80
Structure
84
Focus
79
Composition
23
Quality
100
Envelope
95

Less fat than almost everything in 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.

grilled brickmaiden battard sourdough, toasted: house brined and smoked turkey breast; local sauerkraut; local toma cheese; house dressing.

Much of this build is inferred from the name; the score is a reading, and it stays out of Inverness Park Market's typical score.

Worth a look: house-made: Smoked Turkey; ingredient not in the pantry: Toma Cheese, House Dressing.

Balance

salt1.2 · 61stacid1.8 · 90thfat0.4 · 5thsweet0.0umami0.8 · 23rdheat0.0bitter0.0
Flavor axes
AxisValueCatalog percentile
salt1.261st
acid1.890th
fat0.45th
sweet0.0n/a
umami0.823rd
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
grilled brickmaiden battard sourdoughscored as Sourdoughbreadsoft chewy crustythe frame
house brined and smoked turkey breastscored as Turkeyproteinumami 2 soft juicy tender+5
local sauerkrautscored as Sauerkrautacidacid 4 salt 2 pickled wet+2
local toma cheesenot scored
house dressingnot scored

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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