/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.20106611]

Should food be decorative?

[Anonymous No.20106623]

>>20106611
depends on who you ask and what kinds of food and for what occasions

[Anonymous No.20106624]

I dont think it necessarily should, but who doesnt like pretty food

[Anonymous No.20106629]

>>20106624
autists don't care

[Anonymous No.20106631]

>>20106629
look at this chocolate sculpture and tell me it wasnt made by the most autistic motherfucker youll ever meet

[Anonymous No.20107147]

>>20106631
I hate to think of how much finger-gunk must be on that thing

[Anonymous No.20107160]

>>20106611
No
Stop turning food into some sort of fashion or style.

[Anonymous No.20107177]

>>20107160
But it already is both.

[Anonymous No.20107957]

>>20106611
Yes

[Anonymous No.20107969]

if something can be beautiful, it should be. when we lose that, we lose humanity

[Anonymous No.20107974]

>>20106611
Nothing wrong with a little bit of fun.

[Anonymous No.20107977]

Can someone please tell me if this thread and most of the replies are copypasta from elsewhere? I'm actually freaking the fuck out because I swear I saw this exact thread 2 weeks ago, I'm actually scared

[Anonymous No.20107982]

>>20107969
>if something can be beautiful, it should be.
To deny this is just to promote a lack of effort or care in its stead.
It doesn't even need to be artistically beautiful, just well constructed.

Don't serve up food to your friends and family with sauce dripped on the side of the bowl because not cleaning it shows you don't consider them worth the effort of presentation.

[Anonymous No.20108020]

>>20107977
This is the first time I've posted here, calm down. Drink some water.

[Anonymous No.20108044]

>>20107977
>anon's first clairvoyant moment
Little behind the curve but you may as well check in over at /x/ if you can't find the thread in the archives, I know OPs repost threads and I probably autopilot respond to them practically the same way every time because my brain is fried from 4chan addiction and I have no ability to resist posting

[Anonymous No.20108532]

>>20107977
everything on the internet is ai generated and sometimes shit gets reused
Im only telling you this because you will have forgotten by the time you wake up

[Anonymous No.20108650]

>>20107147
Typically they use tools and wear gloves but yeah

[Anonymous No.20108663]

>>20107957
>man sweating profusely.jpg

[Anonymous No.20108747]

>>20106611
No, because food rots and smells bad if you keep it as decoration for a long time.

[Anonymous No.20108906]

>>20106611
Sometimes, especially for desserts.

[Anonymous No.20108907]

>>20106611
No, that's immoral and a taboo, if you make food decorative I will flog you.

[Anonymous No.20108910]

>>20107969
>>20107982
Or, in an actual world of limited focus and energy, you choose aesthetics over better and more important morals, the sign of secondary malingering for a dying civilization.
I'm sure you would despise your ancestors, if you could meet them, too.
Not couth and callow and insincere enough for you, too substantial.

[Anonymous No.20109237]

>>20107160
it unironically tastes better when it looks better. it's a scientifically proven factm

[Anonymous No.20109287]

>>20108910
>in an actual world of limited focus and energy, you choose aesthetics over better and more important morals, the sign of secondary malingering for a dying civilization.
Think what you want. I'll be sipping sophisticated tea out of my sophisticated teacup, in my sophisticated penthouse apartment, while the world burns.

[Anonymous No.20110204]

>>20107160
>>20106611
appearance is important, that's why marble cake and smoked paprika exists. however pics like op are a meme and some shit like fondant is disgusting. secondly, if you're serving it to someone else, there is a social aspect of presentation. one of the main reasons lots of people learn to bake is because it's a good way to butter people up, and making the food look good is an important part of that process.

of course if you just live with someone and make a simple cake for share, it won't matter nearly as much. but gifts and being intended for guests or a special occasion is a different story.

>>20107982
this. you'll def notice that suddenly people like your vanilla cake 10x more when you serve it on nice, pretty dishes instead of the cake tin and add a drizzle of plain sugar icing & add cocoa powder to half to make it a marble cake, even if it tastes 95% the same.

you can always do both presentation and taste by serving it with caramel or glace cherries too

[Anonymous No.20111583]

>>20109287
And I'll be eating rice and beans and looking down on you for your apathy while trying to do something about it

[Anonymous No.20111995]

>>20106611
Soon we will be able to 3D-print food in any design we want.

[Anonymous No.20112043]

>>20111583
are you an angel or a vulture? quick to judge and contemplating death either way, but from such a high vantage point I'm sure you have a more apt view of yourself. please, blogpost O shaman.

[Anonymous No.20112307]

>>20106611

You eat with your eyes first so, yes!

[Anonymous No.20112547]

>>20108910
>Or, in an actual world of limited focus and energy, you choose aesthetics over better and more important morals, the sign of secondary malingering for a dying civilization.
>I'm sure you would despise your ancestors, if you could meet them, too.
My grandparents were yugoslavian immigrants.

Our easter eggs were hardboiled eggs.
My grandma would still put a patterned lattice around them and dip them in beetroot juice and other natural dyes so they'd look pretty.
Don't you fucking DARE tell me poverty made my ancestors give up on asthetics you upjumped westoid faggot.

You cocksucking piece of shit, how fucking dare you insinuate my people were as filled with pathetic nihilism as your niggardly cunt tribe.
You chocolate scoffing cunt, did your grandmother make shit anywhere near as beautiful as these for you with nothing more than some fucking paper and a vegetable-based dip?

[Anonymous No.20112554]

>>20112547
>>20108910
Did your grandmother paint them for you? Did she press flowers and herbs from your grandfather's vegetable garden against them to pattern your eggs?
Did she?
Did you have parsley patterned eggs?
I did. And they were fucking delicious. Easter to me is still a hardboiled egg.

Fuck you.
Even with nothing, my grandparents strove for beauty.

Fuck you.

[Anonymous No.20112558]

>>20112554
This. Other dude is a niggerfied American fat fuck
>t.polak

[Anonymous No.20112573]

>>20112558
God I miss those colourful hardboiled eggs.
The epitome of "Made with love."
I know my grandma used to use beetroot for the red ones, but the green and brown and blue ones? Not a clue.

I guess the green could be spinach or broccoli or anything like that, and I'm pretty sure the brown ones were onion peels, but where the hell did she get blue?
Baba magic. That's what that is.

[Anonymous No.20112601]

>>20112573
>but where the hell did she get blue?
red cabbage.
t.White Ameritard with trad family.
That takes nothing away from your Baba--natural dye eggs take a lot of work to look good if they have designs on them. even the simple ones wyth herb leaves have to be carefully wrapped, or they don't come out well at all.
Per cup of water use the following:

1 cup chopped purple cabbage = blue on white eggs, green on brown eggs
1 cup red onion skins = lavender or red eggs
1 cup yellow onion skins = orange on white eggs, rusty red on brown eggs
1 cup shredded beets = pink on white eggs, maroon on brown eggs
2 tablespoons ground turmeric = yellow eggs
1 bag Red Zinger tea = lavender eggs

Add one tablespoon white vinegar to every cup of strained dye liquid.
For every dozen eggs, plan on using at least four cups of dye liquid.

[Anonymous No.20112623]

>>20112601
Champ, I'm gonna make 'em this year.

[Anonymous No.20112683]

>>20112623
old t-shirts cut up into squares make good wraps--but home improvement stores sell painters rags which work just as well.
(they are for fixing the leaves like parsley or clover to the egg before dyeing--get 'em wet first.)
Have fun

[Anonymous No.20112744]

>>20107969
I've noticed that there are some "people" who hate beautiful things and want to destroy them. They are always ugly and/or stupid.

[Anonymous No.20112765]

>>20112573
weddutakkinabeee

[Anonymous No.20112815]

>>20112744
100%

[Anonymous No.20113565]

>>20112765

[Anonymous No.20113861]

>>20112744
If you look at the current state of western video games, and mainly at female characters, this statement rings true.

[Anonymous No.20114233]

only pon holiday and other specialized occassion

[Anonymous No.20114264]

I daresay that beautiful things are inherently better than ugly things

[Anonymous No.20114306]

Sure why not.

[Anonymous No.20116059]

This thread has been a good way to separate the sophisticates from the proles.

[Anonymous No.20116067]

>>20108910
calm down m8

[Anonymous No.20116152]

>>20114306
Okay so usually I’m overwhelmed by some anti-Darwinistic urge to eat things like glass and different pottery glazes because fuck it they look good and this is giving me the same vibes.
I wanna eat it. What is this called?
It looks like some kind of clear lemon meringue, and I’m here for it.