Do you care about the way you present your food at all, or is taste the only value you hold for what you cook?Also, rate my presentation i guess
>>22062068sure do.
>>22062073Looks good anon
>>22062068I know one thing. I'm not spending more time putting food on a plate than it takes to eat it.I don't want my food to look like shit or puke but otherwise don't give a shit if it looks like that slop.
am I doing it right?
>>22062075Don't you think you'll enjoy your food more if it looked nice?>>22062077Not enough plastic
>>22062081>Don't you think you'll enjoy your food more if it looked nice?
>>22062068Great>>22062069Great>>22062072FailHonestly when I cook for myself I just try to cook the food in a way that makes it unneccessery to plate or garnish it in any way for it to look delicious. You just gotta not make a giant mess while plating and properly cooked food will look and smell great.
>>22062068I can tell by looking at that, that it would taste vile.>>22062069>sickly green pasta, and pale tasteless tomatoes. no thanks.>>22062072>jizz dragged through grass clippings on fish. disgusting>>22062081>meme bread bowl with dish water and wood shavings.who wouldn't?
>>22062068not even a little bit, if I'm being honest
>>22062068I'm obsessed about it
>>22062072This one is bad. The rest of yours look pretty good.
>>22062074This one looks the best in my opinion. The most up my valley. It's even, the individual ingredients look tasty like they're quality and prepared very well, the garnish doesn't obscure anything, doesn't look frivolous and adds something key to the flavor profile. That's a 10/10 imo.
>>22062125*alley Not valley:D
>>22062068Only if it tickles my nerd neurons. Picrel my first attempt at nip curry a few days ago, normally just throw stuff like this in a bowl but did it like this because muh chinese cartoons.
>>22062081This one is also a fail unfortunately. The bread looks burnt, the tortilla strips look burnt, and I don't think mushroom soup like this benefits from the bread bowl
>>22062068>Also, rate my presentation i guessLooks like a poor person trying to be fancy or a literal retard who just stacked shit with no rhyme or reason
>>22062095Why are you replying to your own thread? Not a good look
>>22062081Why do you assume this looks nice? You are very oblivious.
>>22062152
>>22062068Cucumber coil to loose and sloppy, sauce globbed on haphazardly, plated as a pair but they look vastly different, superfluous poo smear. And to top it off, the dish itself is a completely unappetizing concept. Lipstick on a pig.>>22062069This if fine because it's not trying hard if you lose the nest of parsley and the untrimmed tomato.>>22062072Sauce is applied haphazardly, and also too many times. Ditch the drizzles on the sides and in the potato. Do one large stripe across the fish instead of small ones down it's length. Ditch the dill on the potato too, I don't know why you decided to be matchy-matchy with the fish.>>22062074Don't do this to musubi, it just makes you look like a twat. The presentation you should go for here is just clean, well executed, and consistent. Adding a drizzle that's different across them and making haphazard mounds of sesame just makes it look childish.>>22062081Your soup should just... not look like this. Adding clumps of dry spices does not help and it kind of disgusting.
>>22062068I make my bf's dinner look a little bit fancy, but my food is just slop.
>>22062198You're being too autistic imo. I agree the first thing is "lipstick on a pig" with the concept being shit and cucumber too loose but the fact that they're not exactly the same is not an issue and the "shit smear" looks good actually. And the masubi looks great, sauce and sesame doesn't have to be applied identically, this is asperger coded. For the rest of meals I agree with your takes.
>>22062213>same is not an issueWrong. It's literally the whole ball game.>the "shit smear" looks good actuallyWrong. Too thin to contribute to the dish, too small. If that approx size is desired, it should be a puddle. If that amount is required, should be a longer, single stripe.>sauce and sesame doesn't have to be applied identicallyThey shouldn't be sauced at all. But, wrong, if you're going to do it you have to at least try to make them match.
>>22062213I think it's fair criticism.If OP is trying to go to the level of high-effort food presentation, he opens himself up to the highest levels of criticism.If OP was just a casual having fun, then there'd be no need to judge him too hard.
>>22062221imo the killdeer has the most autistic screech>looking for nest site>out of the way safe patch of ground in good shade? I sleep>middle of a busy parking lot? Free fuckin real estate>did you really just walk 10cm too close to my nest? KEE KEE KEE KEE KEE KEE KEE KEE KEE LOOK AT ME LOOK AT MY DUMB BROKEN WING LOOK AT ME FOLLOW ME>circles you repeatedly screaming its head offI love birds but when I have to work near one of their dumb nests I just want to punt the fucker sometimes.
>>22062221>>22062224OP is obviously not experienced. I think you're dumping too much criticism of details on him while the very basics need way more focus. The sushi, you can't pick it up because of the cucumber and there is nothing appetizing to look at, the parsley on pasta is not chopped which a lot of people hate. The bread bowl and tortilla strips are burnt, the soup is not thickened so it soaks into the bread too much and the salmon is visually a total mess. Is the smear not being thick enough and the garnish not exactly the same really worth mentioning at this level? That being said I think the pasta and the masubi look appetizing and I would be satisfied if I got them in a medium or low price restaurant and I will die on this hill.
>>22062069looks good>>22062072if you care about plating just divide the food into two plates. 1 filet and half the amount potatoes would look better on a plate than this. it's obvious you just slopped everything you were planning on eating on 1 plate and then tried to make it look pretty despite that. >>22062073honestly, did you try?>>22062074plating poverty food manages to both be pretentious and low class at the same time.
I try, though I don't always succeed. In theory someone can care very much about taste and not a bit to the presentation, but in practice people who don't give a shit about presentation tend not to give a shit about taste or much else about their food.
>>22062198>superfluous poo smearVisually it helps connect two otherwise isolated pieces of food so it's not superfluous at all, and the perpendicular angle crates contrast and tension. You can say that it wasn't executed well or didn't succeed in those goals but to just call it superfluous as if there was no purpose or thought whatsoever is retarded and makes it harder to take other criticisms you have seriously if you can't recognize that.All of that is only visually, that is to say nothing of what the smear could have done or not done for the taste if it was heavily spiced.
>>22062068I don't care for looks and only flavour.
>>22062291I care about taste and aroma and not presentation. I belive the smell is the most important, the flavor is second and your eyes learn to love what is pleasant for you.
>>22062306If you really give a shit about your food then you will naturally put at least some effort into your plating. If your dish naturally looked like a turd and your serving bowl looked like a toilet bowl, would that be 100% fine with you because technically the taste and smell are not impacted, or would you put a modicum of effort in avoiding making your food look like a hollywood prop of a bowel movement?
>>22062295It doesn’t look good and there’s not enough there to nudge the taste. Additionally the food is absorbing it giving it a visibly soggy brown bottom and destroying the effect it was trying to achieve.Don’t coddle mediocrity, it doesn’t help.
>>22062311But why would you cook something that looks like a turd and serve it in toilet bowl. You wildin'. I just cook the food and try to cook it properly so that is smells and tastes nice to me and then I put it on a plate while trying not to make mess so that's some minimal effort but that's about it. Basically I focus on making it not ugly rather than pretty but where I like to have fun is trying to get it to have the best flavor and aroma possible.
>>22062312Anon if you're going to present yourself as giving high-level criticism you need to be open to improvement on those criticisms and that particular one was fucking stupid the way you phrased it. I'm glad you were able to improve your criticisms with this post after fumbling with your initial blunder but you do need to do better. I'm not giving OP quarter on his food but if you're going to dish it out then you should be less of a whiny bitch when people point out inadequacies with your remarks.>there's not enough there to nudge the tasteYou have no way of knowing that without tasting it, particularly if the food is absorbing it and the part of the food touching the smear is the first thing going on the tongue,but you're going to keep coping here so I'm wasting my breath trying to help you improve your ironically mediocre criticisms.
>>22062198>>22062221post your food
>>22062325I’m right though. QED.
>>22062325Also if you can’t identify that it’s just plain soy sauce, I can’t help you.
>>22062351I explained why you're wrong but you can't take what you dish out. Cope more.>>22062356The smear?
22062068Too overstuffed and doesn't match/mirror.6/1022062069Outside tomatoes don't form a unison appearance i.e. the stems aren't all pointing out.7/1022062072Uneven, inconsistent sauce splotches on the sides and you had some drizzle onto the potatoes by mistake.7/1022062073Uneven plating and switched the order of pasta/shrimp by mistake.7/1022062074Single grain of rice is out of place in the middle and right.7/1022062077Peasant, but this is a meme0/1022062081Spoon in and bad use of spice garnish.7/1022062102Paper plate, bad ratio, and over piled.6/1022062110Same as above. Plastic plate, bad ratio, over piled, and uneven scoop of rice.6/1022062131Similar to above two; bad ratio and over piled.5/1022062291Very good, very nice. Meat should have had one less or one more to create consistent flow.Tofu uneven and wasabi(?) in between inconsistent.8/1022062306Bad photograph, can't see all of the food, unable to properly judge entire presentation, more than likely at a restaurant.8/1022062316Over piled, bad ratio, and bad scoop of potatoes.7/10With all that said,2206206822062069220620722206207422062081This anon had the best presentation overall.22062306Second.22062291Third.
Ok since nobody is asking. What the fuck is this in the OP? I'm pretty sure it's shrimp or prawn but can we confirm that?
>>22062068>>22062069>>22062072>>22062081Very nice, anon. I also dig the plate itself.
OP doing big damage control after he didn’t get the response he wanted.
>>22062363Looks like rice with roe and vegetable slices.
>>22062377It looks like cocktail shrimp to me. See, we could use a clarification.
If its just for me, nah I don't give a shit. If i'm feeding someone else, i'll make an attempt but never anything extraordinary.
>>22062068It depends on the meal. If I'm cooking a fancier meal for others, then I'll put in a little more effort. Generic dinner for the senpai? Just throw whatever together on a plate or in a bowl.Your plating looks pretty good anon, I could believe that a restaurant is overcharging 50$ for some of these plates
>>22062361>Bad photographHere's one a little more zoomed out. I don't have any wider frame, sorry. Feel free to adjust your rating. Please ignore the flip flop that I recieved from a gay man.
presentation does nothing for me, it's 100% taste. do you think blind people care about looks?i've had tasteless pretty food, and delicious ugly food, i know which i prefer
>>22062384Not sure where you're seeing shrimp at all
>>22062392What are the roe and vegetables laying on. It's something covered in sauce. Zoom in. I think it's shrimp in some pale cocktail sauce.
>>22062361So the top anon has the average score below 7 and second and third the average of 8?
>>22062390Very good. Still 8/10, but a very respectable 8/10. There's no sauce shown, which goes with this meal and the rolls/cuts of meat are inconsistent/uneven i.e. too much on some, not enough on others.>>22062401He has multiple postings showing consistent, above-average plating. He's substandard for a professional cook. The others showed one plate and are good for average cooks.
>>22062346Bump
>>22062409>Very good. Still 8/10, but a very respectable 8/10.Thanks :) as for the sauce it was the standard soy sauce, ginger and wasabi on other plates so nothing special.
>>22062069>>22062068>>22062074These look great>>22062072Potatoes could have been portioned out by scoop or piping bag, lemon sauce on the sides looks like cumshots, a lemon wedge would have preferable since you can actually use, maybe a little too much chopped dill. Otherwise looks well prepared. Sometimes less is more when it comes to presentation. Where did you get your plates>>22062068What is this by the way
>>22062198>>22062221>>22062361This is good criticism.
>>22062395That's just rice, man.
>>22062102Yet your dish looks pretty good.>>22062291Best in the thread in my opinion, looks like a lot of thought went into it.>>22062306There is truth in that, i like the smell of stir-fry, and now i love how it looks just by association.
>>22062316"making it not ugly" is already a good goal to have and much better than most.>>22062366>>22062430Thanks, i bought them ages ago. cant remember from where and cant justify buying anything else while they are perfectly functional.>>22062363>>22062377It is in fact rice with roe and vegetable slice, with the rice having salmon flakes mixed in it. the smear is simple soy sauce.
>>22062152>>22062375Nah I know where I'm posting. if anything i didn't expect so much engagement and thought the thread would have a couple of "lol what a fag" and an autistic guy screeching (love you man), but this was a surprisingly good thread. You'll know it's me because i pretty much don't post without an imageI'm not really trying to create high level restaurant quality presentation, I just find it fun to try to get nice looking plates, so the "pig with lipstick" metaphor does have some truth to it.>>22062131lol what a fag
also what the fuck is with the "Error: Our system thinks your post is spam. Please reformat and try again."? jesus christ moot or hiro or whoever is running this site should get their shit together..
>>22062469How on earth did you drop your drizzle onto the avocados? They should have been last on the plate.Also the plate should not be white here.
This thread is shit and filled with retards writing essays defending their shit food with shit plating.
>>22062474Post your plates
>>22062469What is that? Rice with coleslaw? The rice isn't cooked well and the whole thing looks ridiculous. The jizz circle of protection is funny.
>>22062457Appreciate the kind words>>22062361Was avocado with the tofu but yeah the tofu was pretty clumsily sliced, I should have chilled it first because it was a softer variety
>>22062495Your portions are so pitiful that it doesn't even look like there's any food on the plate, man.
>>22062495>>22062469Looks like surimi salad. There are some straight up homeless people meals here that are pretty well dressed up. If you like weird poverty meals OP try making ketchup soup.
>>22062068gross whats with all the sauce. looks like your trying to cover flavor with aioli lul
Still waiting for the expert critics to post their plates.
>>22062525i dont give a shit abt presentstion bc im going to be eating it. its only for faggots who want michelin stars.
>>22062533Cooklet and mad
>>22062533>its only for faggots who want michelin starsthe anons here will never work in a Michelin star establishment. this thread is for low class fags that want to LARP as high class.
>>22062538Wrong. I'm not going to self-dox, but I began by enrolling in hotel management, finding my true calling in the kitchen. I apprenticed under culinary legends like Marco Pierre White and Albert Roux in London. Then I relocated to France to study French cuisine under masters Joël Robuchon and Guy Savoy.I became head chef at London's Aubergine restaurant in 1993, earning two Michelin stars. I opened my first wholly-owned, namesake restaurant in Chelsea, London, in 1998 and achieved three Michelin stars by 2001, making me the first Scottish chef to do so. Then I expanded to a global portfolio of restaurants, including locations in Las Vegas, Dubai, and Singapore.
>>22062525Even if people post dogshit, it doesn’t make existing critiques less valid, faggot. If you want better, do better. Simple as.
>>22062074So is this thing tasty? Because it looks tasty but I never had spam so I dunno.
>>22062553I'm merely curious why are you so angry. That's some emotionally charged language. Almost as if you're seeething. I wonder why.
>>22062457What is that next to the eggs?
>>22062558Idk, why are you seeking validation for your mid cooking on an anonymous image board? Are you dissatisfied with your life and your inability to connect with others?
>>22062562
>>22062548lmao
From posts by OP this >>22062457 looks the best in my opinion and I'd love to order that and this >>22062081 looks the worst and if I got this at a restaurant I'd be mad.
>>22062565Answer the question fagmo
>>22062565What's the weird bady cooked rice ring topper with coleslaw and circled by cum?
>>22062585Yes, 100% you clocked me. I'm such a pathetic little fagmu that I can't connect with others so I post pictures of food on 4chan seeking validation. I'm literally crying and shaking right now because I've been exposed and humiliates. I'm considering suicide. I hope you and everyone else here is happy.
>>22062593>clockedImagine not only being shit at cooking and plating but also being a literal tranny/faggot
>>22062597How am I so transparent to you?! Omg this time I'm really gonna do it!
>>22062593Can you stop throwing bitch fits and tell me what the rice ring with coleslaw and semen sauce is?
>>22062600Maybe ask the poster and not me?
>>22062603Wait, you're not OP? You're just melting down on his behalf? Lol
>>22062608Yup. OP is long gone.
>>22062068Taste. As long as the appearance doesn’t gross me out I don’t care.
Didn't take long for the thread to turn into shit-flinging seethe-fest. good while it lasted i suppose.>>22062473Those are the only plates i have, I'm too cheap to buy new ones>>22062495>>22062600It's surimi salad on top of short grain rice. The cum is just the salad dressing >>22062512It's strange, even though i have a good paying job and I'm relatively well off, i have this cheap, poor mentality that i can't shake off. I gravitate to poverty meals and tend to enjoy them more than high end ones. product of my upbringing i suppose. >>22062560Loaded backed potato. Scottish eggs were air-fried and turned our surprisingly OK.
>>22062068The first bite is with the eye
>>22062291dude... I would eat pork belly served on a hub cap. I don't give a shit about how you plate it.
Going to bed, i don't usually monitor my threads and just sporadically check on them from time to time. will post more pictures later if it's still up. more food talk and less shit posting you fags
The presentation is EXTREMELY important!
>>22062626Same boat, love it braised as well.
>>22062620>It's strange, even though i have a good paying job and I'm relatively well off, i have this cheap, poor mentality that i can't shake off. I gravitate to poverty meals and tend to enjoy them more than high end ones. product of my upbringing i suppose.I had a little phase like that. I wanted to master poverty homeless food just as a challenge for myself and because it's kind of pleasantly trashy and a little exotic. It's kind of like a survival challenge.
>OP is still in here crying hours later
>>22062628you are absolutely fascinated with parsley garnishes and it's disturbing
>>22062620>hard taco skins Would look and taste a lot better with soft skins.
OP's presentation skills are perfectly valid for what they are and whatever level of skill he has. OP will continue to learn, grow, and expand with each successive iteration and application of the full spectrum of criticism Godspeed OP, I support you
>>22062798Except OP refuses all criticisms as trolling. He didn’t want feedback, he wanted praise and adulation. Pathetic.
>>22062457I don't doubt this would be a tasty meal, but you are all over the place in regards to preparation and ingredients usage. You have mediterranean falafel on american iceberg lettuce, you have european eggs in a basket, and what I can only guess is some sort of latin american loaded potato. The portions are nice and evenly distributed, but the food itself does not go together.4/10>>22062458This is a lot better and looks fun. Only thing I could suggest to make it better would be to lose the pepperoni or use cherry tomatoes instead.8/10>>22062461Over piled and bad ratio5/10>>22062469Exquisite, but like another anon said, the sauce should not have been on the avocados, the sauce should have been more even distributed around and more of a circle to match the food, instead of trying to match the plate.>>22062533And you're a low class nigger. You eat with your eyes first, nigger.>>22062620Oh là là!~ Look at this guy stepping up his game. Only criticism I have is that it should have been tequila, not a mojito, as a mojito is a cuban invention, if you were going for a mexican theme, the cheese should be melted on both the nachoes and tacos, and you should have made your own tortillas instead of using store bought hard shells. Also needs some spanish rice on the side.8/10>>22062628Shit out of 10. Presentation wise, it's too much, however, it's arranged nicely, but the food itself is grotesque. Why you would end on such a low note I'll never understand.2/10
>>22062887Shit, sorry, forgot 8/10.
>>22062888>Shit, sorry, forgot 8/10.
>>22062798>OP will continue to learn, grow, and expand with each successive iteration and application of the full spectrum of criticismidk man... some of these images date back 5+ years
>>22062081The real redpill is being able to see that ALL of OP's images look equally shit as this one, but retards ITT can't see it.
>>22062068Taste is more important, but making a good presentation is nice especially if you're serving others. If I'm just eating something by myself I don't really care, but if I'm serving I'll put some effort in. Not like a whole lot of effort, it's not gonna be restaurant quality presentation, but it should look decent.
