This is my 10th day in the kitchen. Roast my plating skills.

by Substantial-Piano-50

37 Comments

  1. grimmigerpetz

    Will there be something in the middle of the plate too?

  2. punditguy

    So much negative space that you’ve accidentally opened up a gateway to alternative universes.

  3. yeroldfatdad

    If that is everything going on the plate, I would recommend smaller plates.

  4. Low-Carob9772

    Is this going to the next station for a center piece?

  5. Stop pissing on your plates, bro. You look like you need to hydrate yourself.

  6. NeatWhiskeyPlease

    That’s a long walk for a short trip.

  7. Adventurous-Start874

    10th day? I assume this is somebody else’s plating vision.

  8. Jeff-FaFa

    I have two questionants:

    Does the plate come with a side of food?

    And why waste time with big plate when little plate do trick?

  9. JohnnyIsNearDiabetic

    At this point the blank space is the actual the dish

  10. jistresdidit

    Did you actually cut a raspberry in half? Goes good with the half plate of air.

  11. If it is the 10 th day, shouldn’t they have shown you how it should be plated

  12. TheRealAanarii

    What was supposed to go in the middle? I’m getting a plate of smells, but nothing to chew on

  13. ChefArtorias

    Keep it the same but reposition the cake to be more center and it looks good.

  14. notofthisearthworm

    Love that there’s enough room on the plate for me to lay down next to it before consuming.

  15. saltsharky

    If you told the plate in half and eat it like a taco, you won’t notice the open sea in the middle.

  16. Ok_Requirement6550

    looks like somebody already ate the rest of it

  17. Roast, I don’t see any roast? Where’s the beef?

  18. epigeneticepigenesis

    Tighten it up, it’s as spaced out as…. like outer space or something. Nice form though, if you’re into planetariums, space head.

  19. giveitaway1239

    Im confused. Its only your 10th day in a kitchen and the chef is giving you complete control.over plating? I’ve never heard of that before.

  20. Is the open space in the middle where my dessert will go?

  21. SamFeuerstelle

    Please tell me something goes in that *massive negative space* you’ve left in the middle.

  22. Reggieslife

    Bring the cakey thing down a little. That might balance it out or go for a more center of the plate approach.

  23. crowcawer

    I’d say you’re doing too many plates to grade because your consistency shifts. Plate 4 in middle is missing the green dusting … pistachios(?).

    Set an optimal plate at the left, aim to do four plates in a minute that match this plate. Put them in series. I’d also recommend replating this dish, as there will be technical challenges getting the droplets to settle in desired place.

    Put the pistachios(?) under the golden … tiny egg yolk droplets caramel(?). Even when you put them directly on the cake icing, as they should help to contain the droplets and keep them from adventuring into the middle of the plate. When you place the green crumbs press the spoon tip into them so that you can make a home for the droplets.

    No one wants a homeless droplet.

    Let the sauce be the final topping. Maybe only do one stripe of sauce instead of trying to do a crescent moon and never landing that.

    Throw some ice cream in the middle of the plate to make the children on Reddit happy about not having anything in the middle of the plate. Or maybe some extra berries with a dusting of light brown or raw sugar—we recently picked up a bag of “Florida Crystal” that works great on strawberries. Shipped it in a cute container for food truck service to put on in front of the customers—the sheet says “not salt bae overconfidence, just to bring a special touch.”

    So to summarize: the single sauce stripe on the cake in plate 12 is good. The neatness of the cake topping on 9 looks fine. Don’t cut the raspberry unless you also want to do that with the blackberry. The green crumbs on 7 and 12 really announce that you have no idea what you’re trying to do on that side of the plate.

  24. CMDR_PEARJUICE

    Gotta play hockey to get more than a drop of sauce, yike.

  25. twice_divorced_69

    I feel like we’ve all been here. Watching someone else plate something in a way we find pleasing, later trying to replicate it and getting negative feedback. Trends in how we plate food are so fleeting and it doesn’t take long before everything is we do is eye-rolled into balsamic glaze and squash purée territory. At least some of us make the effort to explore what works and what doesn’t.

  26. Yelping_Queen4226

    I could wipe my ass with one of those plates and it would look better!

  27. bluntcrumb

    this just got recommended in my feed so no experience in here but i feel a scoop of green tea ice cream in the middle would be kinda bonkers (if thats a lemon bar or cake)

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