A sandwich at Dolores Deluxe, a corner store in San Francisco, California.
out of 100 · excellent
Excellent. Small moves left on the board.
Reads as a fully realized cubano, five of six roles, most layers have a partner.
More salt 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.
croissant, toasted: smoked ham; gruyere (high tier); pepper jack cheese; Kewpie mayo (named producer, high tier); Dijon mustard; Grillo's pickles (named producer).
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 2.6 | 90th |
| acid | 1.5 | 89th |
| fat | 2.5 | 65th |
| sweet | 0.5 | 61st |
| umami | 1.9 | 67th |
| heat | 0.3 | 73rd |
| bitter | 0.1 | 56th |
96 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| croissant | bread | fat 3 sweet 2 flaky crispy | the frame |
| smoked hamscored as Ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | +24 |
| gruyere (high tier)scored as Gruyère | protein | fat 4 umami 4 salt 3 soft melty | +9 |
| pepper jack cheesescored as Monterey Jack | protein | fat 3 salt 2 umami 2 soft creamy melty | −6 |
| Kewpie mayo (named producer, high tier)scored as Mayonnaise | sauce | fat 5 acid 2 creamy saucy | −5 |
| Dijon mustardscored as Mustard | sauce | acid 3 salt 2 heat 2 saucy smooth | +13 |
| Grillo's pickles (named producer)scored as Pickle (cucumber) | acid | acid 5 salt 4 crunchy juicy pickled | +16 |
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
- Croissant + Ham: ham on a buttery croissant, the cafe standard
- Ham + Gruyère: cured pork and nutty swiss, an old alliance
- Ham + Mustard: deli constant: hot mustard on cured pork
- Ham + Pickle (cucumber): the cubano lesson: brine cuts cured pork
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