/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.19969755]

Any tips on how I can learn how to plate better?

[Anonymous No.19969764]

>>19969755
Tell a story with the food! :)

[Anonymous No.19969769]

>>19969764
"I call this dish 'Chaotic mental breakdown'"

[Anonymous No.19969820]

>>19969755
yeah, don't jew out on the food. plate ain't even half full

[Anonymous No.19969869]

One thing it took me a while to realise is how you have to start thinking about plating well before you even start cooking, like planning a garnish with vegetable trimmings or deciding what size you prep things so they sit nicely together. There's also the rule of three idea from flower arrangement of having large/medium/small elements as well as tall/low/background elements.

[Anonymous No.19969872]

I keep asking this but never get a good answer; is there a proper good book specifically about plating?
Combinations of colour, structure, shapes etc.

[Anonymous No.19969894]

>>19969869
eat all of those one after the other and you'll be ready for the main
>that will be $1335 plus tip

[Anonymous No.19969971]

Plating is just a way for zoomers to cargo cult what they took from us: proper table setting. Nobody knows where to put the forks that's why you rootless faggots are obsessing over stupid shit like making your food look like antipsychotic meds and drinking out of mason jars. Ambience is so much more important. Your guests will be spending an hour or more at the table engaged in conversation and breathing in the atmosphere and, like, a minute tops taking instas of the gay way you threw some branches and grass over a beef medallion.

[Anonymous No.19970029]

>>19969755
Allocate a space for each food item. Don't let them mix. If anything splashes outside its area, wipe the plate clean. Only pour just enough sauce on the food to moisten it, then pour the rest in its own area or serve it separately. Garnish over sauce, not under it. Only have 1 main food per course, with no more than 3 accompaniments on the same plate. If you need more, serve them on separate plates as sides.
>>19969971
>zoomers
>drinking out of mason jars
Faggy hipsters existed before zoomers were born.
>proper table setting. Nobody knows where to put the forks
That's a good point. Beginners can study standard silver service, then adapt it for their own needs.

[Anonymous No.19970033]

>>19969755
>Any tips on how I can learn how to plate better?
be more gay

[Anonymous No.19970062]

>>19969755
My tip is to not learn to "plate better." Be part of the resistance to this ridiculous plating culture. Throw your slop down any way it lands. If the food is good, that's all the meal needs.

[Anonymous No.19970120]

I don't think it's a good idea for adults to have sexual intercourse with children in the majority of circumstances.

[Anonymous No.19970123]

>>19969755
I'm pretty sure this is a mechanic from FFXIV

[Anonymous No.19970151]

>>19970123
Why do they keep making final fantasy? Ive heard of the game since the early 90s and they keep making them so they aren't "final" at all. Pisses me off.

[Anonymous No.19970155]

Slobs vs snobs thread?
Slobs vs snobs thread.

[Anonymous No.19970197]

>>19969872
Working The Plate by Christopher Styler is about plating for actual consumption rather than most other books that are about plating for food photography or kitschy garnish ideas.

[Anonymous No.19970203]

>>19970062
How very modern, Ferran.

[Anonymous No.19970642]

>>19969971
Fuck you I was drinking with mason jars as a child in the 80's because we were dirt poor and had to double up our canned goods and drinking cups. Mason jars are the culture of the poorfag, stop trying to appropriate it.

[Anonymous No.19970696]

>>19969755
1. That is terrible plating.
2. Study abstract art. It's just form and balance.
3. Unless you're in a professional kitchen it doesn't matter, and if you are someone will tell you how to do it. It goes in waves of style and what's popular will change from year to year. If you want to know what's "in" right now, make some reservations at upscale restaurants.

[Anonymous No.19970792]

>>19969755
Make a dish you'd want to eat yourself.
-Learn about colour harmony, volumes/proportions and architecture
-Learn about textures, ingredients and tools
-Discover how much you can do on your own. These guys >>19969869 have 51-200 employees.
-Stick to uneven numbers, uneven items on a plate looks more natural.
-Put less on a plate but make it count.
-Think about plates. I got these gorgeous cyan plates back when they were all the hype in 2010. They looked like a lagoon. And of course they look like shit when you put food on them. Absolutely horrendous.

[Anonymous No.19970812]

>>19969820
Half? You can barely call it 1/4 if you are being generous.

[Anonymous No.19971064]

>>19969971
>every euro restaurant that wants to be respected does some type of modern plating that isn't rooted in whatever the fuck you just barfed into this post
>americansamericansamericans
Bruh, how do you get past the day with this much seethe.

[Anonymous No.19971110]

>>19970792
>I got these gorgeous cyan plates back when they were all the hype in 2010. They looked like a lagoon. And of course they look like shit when you put food on them. Absolutely horrendous.
Fucking kek.

[Anonymous No.19971242]

>>19971064
Post never even mentions america, mutt

[Anonymous No.19972724]

Plating is for when you have little food and can’t fill the plate.

If you want to attract females, just pile on the plate to show off how you can provide for them.

[Anonymous No.19972733]

>>19969869
>Carrot tartare with rye bread and condiments
>that will be $400 plus tip
do people really
I have all that shit in my fridge right now

[Anonymous No.19972739]

>>19972733
Anon you don’t get it. These culinary places exist to wow you by appealing to your brain with their artistic creation.

When in reality, food, like any art, exists to fill the heart. Easiest example is that a thanksgiving meal doesn’t have to be delicious, but it must feel like home.

This is why you don’t get these expensive foodies. They are sociopathic pretenders that doesn’t know the first thing about food or art or creation.

I have no advice to OP. Just scroll through instagram and copy other people until you find your own voice.

[Anonymous No.19972744]

>>19972733
$560 if you want wine.

[Anonymous No.19972751]

>>19970062
>>19970696
Plating is to impress women. I know non-rubbery scrambled eggs is already enough but they'll be gushing even seeing pic related

[Anonymous No.19972859]

>>19969755
More colours. Example: if you make butter chicken and its just yellowish slop, add green leaves.

[Anonymous No.19972861]

>>19969764

[Anonymous No.19972901]

>>19972751
>wanting to impress women
what are you, gay?

[anonymous No.19973510]

>>19972861
is this loss?

[Anonymous No.19974964]

>Color theory
>Composition
>Always have in hand sauces and oils
>Negative space (Makes the boomers angry)
>Always look online and in books to see what others do, good artist copy, the best ones steal

[Anonymous No.19974974]

>>19969755
Bishop to E4