A sandwich at Gambino's New York Subs, a sandwich shop in San Francisco, California.
out of 100 · solid
Solid, with one move worth +29.
Reads as an italian sub, two of six roles on the board.
Holding the summit: balance 0.80 or better, a third role on the board (an acid, a sauce, an aroma or a crunch)
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.
hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one), served cold: ham; salami; hot coppa; mortadella (high tier); provolone.
Balance
| Axis | Value | Catalog percentile |
|---|---|---|
| salt | 3.1 | 90th |
| acid | 0.0 | n/a |
| fat | 3.3 | 86th |
| sweet | 0.2 | 26th |
| umami | 3.3 | 90th |
| heat | 0.2 | 65th |
| bitter | 0.0 | n/a |
66 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| hoagie roll (the menu offers a choice of bread; scored on this one) | bread | soft crusty | the frame |
| ham | protein | salt 4 umami 4 fat 3 soft silky tender | −3 |
| salami | protein | salt 4 fat 4 umami 4 chewy silky | +2 |
| hot coppascored as Capicola (coppa) | protein | salt 4 fat 4 umami 4 silky chewy tender | −3 |
| mortadella (high tier) | protein | fat 4 salt 3 umami 3 soft silky tender | +3 |
| provolone | protein | fat 3 umami 3 salt 2 soft melty | +12 |
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 + Salami: salami and ham, the deli's double cure
- Ham + Capicola (coppa): two cures, one sub: capicola and ham
- Salami + Capicola (coppa): the italian sub's cured pair
- Salami + Provolone: italian sub spine: salami and provolone
- Capicola (coppa) + Provolone: spiced cure under sharp provolone
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