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Anonymous Sun Oct 22 12:28:33 2017 No.9583904 [Reply] [Original]

How does one into plating? Any good resources to check out?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 13:24:57 2017 No.9584109 >>9583904 Modernist Cuisine - The Art and Science of Cooking

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 13:34:02 2017 No.9584143 >>9583904 dont, its pure waste annd vanity...its a chef masterbating and the spoon-sweeping jizz on the plate

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 13:37:10 2017 No.9584155 >>9584143 This. Aside from getting 10/10s instead of 8/10s in food rates, there is literally no reason.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 13:42:53 2017 No.9584172 File: 245 KB, 2048x1365, maxresdefault (2).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9584155 >>9584143 depends, trying to do something like OP's pic at home is obviously stupid doing something like pic related is nice

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 13:45:02 2017 No.9584176 >>9584143 Sorry flyover, but it's scientifically proven fact that the visual impression a dish gives influences how we perceive its flavor.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 13:45:08 2017 No.9584178 >>9583904 only 2 ways. 1. pile shit up 2. spread shit out

Anonymous Sun Oct 22 13:45:50 2017 No.9584184

You eat with your eyes first. Proper plating actually does make the food taste better but only from a mental state. Height is important, giving various dimensions is important, and using the plate like a picture frame is important.

That being said, I despise swirls or zigzags of sauce. That shit belongs at least 4 decades ago. And moving the food off-center just shows an excess of plate and less frame making you see white and the goddamned table rather than the food.

Anonymous Sun Oct 22 13:50:06 2017 No.9584196
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Plating 101 is to put the soft stuff (e.g. rice, potatoes, salad etc.) in the middle/slightly to the side and put the solid stuff (e.g. meat) on top. Remember to clean the plate from excess drops etc. Like here >>9584172

Pic related is how I did it last time, I suck but it impresses the normies anyway. I don't feel like you need much more than that for home cooking.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 17:44:00 2017 No.9585323 >>9583904 Only the gays care about this

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 17:46:06 2017 No.9585331 >>9585323 What does it say that you bumped this thread then?

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 17:46:11 2017 No.9585333 >>9584196 that's joe rogan tier level of oil, dude

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 17:56:48 2017 No.9585369 >>9584143 >how do I make paintings? >don't, it's pure waste and vanity

Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:08:05 2017 No.9586444
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>>9583904

I've been working on this myself. Really its just a lot of trial and error. Put stuff together, take it apart. Consider how you want the food to be eaten. Try to match your flavors and textures in ways that keep the progression of the dish interesting. My favorite part of my job right now is playing with colors and shapes and textures.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:10:41 2017 No.9586450 File: 1.45 MB, 3024x3024, IMG_20170221_193356_728.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9586444

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:15:49 2017 No.9586469 File: 1.35 MB, 2240x2240, IMG_20170808_171917_690.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9586444

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:17:47 2017 No.9586478 >>9583904 plating is automatic failure

Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:21:15 2017 No.9586495

>dude plating is the fucking worst, I'm not paying 100 dollars more for this shit!!!
This is quite honestly the most retarded statement ever made about food in general. Not only does plating take literally a minute or two at most at the very end of the cooking process, no one is paying any extra for the plating. Literally all the money is spent in sourcing ridiculously specific ingredients. Now if you have a problem with that, sure, go to another place. But plating is just the common pleb's scapegoat to justify never having spent more than 12 dollars at his local applebees and feeling insecure about it.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:22:56 2017 No.9586502 File: 2.13 MB, 2560x1440, 20170613_160127.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9586444

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:25:51 2017 No.9586507 >>9586444 I have to say the saucing in that pic looks dreadful, but you got at something really important here: the best plating takes into account how the dish is supposed to be eaten, rather than just going for pure visual effect.

Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:26:35 2017 No.9586511

>>9586495

This. Plating is a natural extension of a great dish. Time is spent sourcing ingredients and finding the best techniques for showcasing those ingredients. Plating is only extending that sort of forethought and consideration to the end product.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:27:57 2017 No.9586519 >>9586511 Big plate is out in full force I see

Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:29:23 2017 No.9586521

>>9586495
and meanwhile applebee's corporate has hired six-digit consultants to dictate the exact way to plate a hamburger, and regularly sends spies to franchises to get cooks who don't follow the diagram fired.
you're not escaping from plating as long as you have plates, at best you're getting the culinary equivalent of 4chords.mp3 or titties.jpg, just as precise but made so even brain-damaged children can appreciate it.

Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:32:05 2017 No.9586529
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>>9586507

It's all a learning experience right now. This is the first time I've been in the position to actually spend time on plating. Even so, it's still not an ideal setup so things get rushed. I'm happy with what we've been producing out of my tiny pseudo-kitchen though.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:35:28 2017 No.9586545 File: 538 KB, 1440x1440, IMG_20170516_170007_906.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9586519 We also do small plates.

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>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:39:28 2017 No.9586566 >>9583904 It also about lighting, setting and photography. So many dishes look shit because they were taken in shit lighting, shit settings with a shitty phone or camera.

Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:47:52 2017 No.9586599
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>>9586566

This is very true. As I've been learning to plate I've also had to learn better techniques for photographing food. All of the pictures I've posted here with the wood table background as opposed to the flat black are more recent. I've started using a different room in the museum for the pictures rather than in the kitchen because there are floor to ceiling windows on one side that lets in a tremendous amount of natural light.

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 22:51:35 2017 No.9586613 File: 1.36 MB, 2268x2268, IMG_20170919_151955_913.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9586599

>>	Anonymous Sun Oct 22 23:01:05 2017 No.9586653 File: 1.97 MB, 2268x2268, IMG_20171017_171523_402.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9586545 and sometimes rectangles.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 04:48:14 2017 No.9587890 >>9586653 cute

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 05:22:59 2017 No.9587998 >>9586521 >and regularly sends spies to franchises to get cooks who don't follow the diagram fired shit, I gotta fund that and support that ancap level kvetching

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 05:41:38 2017 No.9588052 >>9583904 certainly not like that

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 10:11:35 2017 No.9588635 >>9584196 Mate that oil is gross af

Anonymous Mon Oct 23 10:13:00 2017 No.9588639

Does anyone else really not give a fuck about plating? Even if I make something for guests, I tend to just "throw it on the plate". I try and make it look normal to guests, but I won't do "professional" plating; and if I'm alone, I couldn't give a fuck what it looks like on the plate.

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 10:14:36 2017 No.9588643 Can someone enlighten me why should I pay more dollars for the chef to put some flowers he picked from side of the streets on top of my steak that I wouldn't even eat? Garnishes are bullshit

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 10:54:46 2017 No.9588773 >>9588643 garnishes aren't want drive up the price

>>	Anonymous Mon Oct 23 10:57:54 2017 No.9588789 Study photography and composition, then apply it to plates using food as your subject.

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