Welcome to the /ck/ challenge: Monthly edition!
THREAD 2!!!!
The theme is announced on the 1st of every month, and submissions are welcome up until the 23rd.
After that the voting/rating thread goes up and everyone is welcome to vote on the submitted dishes.
VOTING GUIDELINES
Voting follows an 'Iron Chef' style scoring system. This means you, the people of /ck/, will judge each entry individually instead of deciding on what you feel is the "best" dish.
We will have two modes of voting:
Casual votes: Vote for as few or as many submissions as you like. Votes will not be tallied and purely for contestants to know how they are doing.
Competitive votes: To submit a competitive vote, you must vote for EVERY submission. These votes will be counted and the winner announced.
Dishes are scored out of a total 20 points, based on 4 categories (worth a maximum of 5 points each); Presentation, Originality, Appeal and Challenge Goals. You may award 0's if you feel the contestant did not meet your expectations for a category.
-Presentation: The appearance of items on the plate; plating skills
-Originality: Creativity in composing the dish
-Appeal: How appetizing the food looks/whether or not the dish appeals to your personal taste as a voter
-Challenge Goals: How closely the entry followed the challenge goal(s)
The distinction between Presentation and Appeal: If someone submits an artfully arranged but burnt steak as an entry, it may score high in Presentation but low in appeal.
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Copypasta Scoring Format for Lazymodo
Presentation: /5
Originality: /5
Appeal: /5
Challenge Goals: /5
Total: /20
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THEME SELECTION
We'll let YOU, the people, decide!
Feel free to suggest themes that you think will be interesting and accessible to everyone.
5 of the suggested themes will be put into a poll at the start of the next month and everyone can vote for what they would like to see in the subsequent month.
NO CHEATING ALLOWED
The theme of March is...... EGGS!!!!!!
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While you're perfectly welcome to make a large spread of food, please make sure there is clearly a "main dish" because that is what people will be voting on.
BONUS CONTENT COURTESY OF WEBMFAG AND ANON:
Introduction video explaining the challenge for you newbs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo6KUNqdsz0
Photography guide:
Text version - http://pastebin.com/VTK7inJQ
Vertical version - http://i.imgur.com/wqE7hys.jpg
How to make webm: http://i.imgur.com/qmj9lnL.jpg
How to make verticals vertical: http://i.imgur.com/9zYnUbu.jpg
Last but not least: Do not feed the trolls. Let's focus on the food and MAKE /CK/ GREAT AGAIN!!!!
PS. thx mod
ALSO, CHEATING WILL NOT BE PERMITTED
What would your final meal be?
>>8666289
>that meal
>firing squad
Is this a novel or something? What civilized country still has death by firing squad?
>kick down the door to a small apartment, kill a mother and her daughter, take their cash and then get caught
>given a lobster and steak dinner while watching LotR
American judicial system, gentlemen. You really can't write this shit.
I'm from the Netherlands and I don't understand why people (mainly US) eat it. It sounds horrible
You can't understand why pasta in a strong and mustardy cheese sauce would be good?
You might actually have brain damage
It just sounds so lame, just pasta, cheese and nothing more
There's macaroni casserole and then there's macaroni pasta, much different in texture and flavor. Usually for the pasta you make a bechamel sauce and add some sharp, delicious cheeses with pepper and cayenne and other stuff like sausage, ham, broccoli, or mushrooms.
Try it, it's fucking delicious.
Gonna be trapped inside for 36 hours at least. What supplies did you stock up on? Any blizzard meal plans? Special snacks for the comfy snow storm?
>inb4 bread and milk if you didn't buy it yesterday ur fukked
>>8680420
Booze, cured meat and bread.
Scotch and Bourbon
>trapped inside for 36 hours
>typical Northeast snow storm
Come on, man. Its not the fucking apocalypse. I live in Maryland, by the way.
Eating a piece of carrot. Thoughts?
i hope you enjoy it :)
No.
>>8686029
Thanks
Quick Guys i tired making chicken for the first time what the fuck is this white stuff? I simply poured a little water over them to make them less dry, put salt and black pepper on them and put them in the oven for 25 minutes, and now they look like this
>>8685700
>>8685700
ahahaahahahha what the fuck i'm not even a good cook myself but what the fuck did you do
That's enough concentrated bird flu to wipe out 1/3 of the worlds poultry.
Have you ever considered becoming a super villain?
Hi /ck/
Its cold, windy and snowy here in the american north east, and I'm stuck working from home, so an all day slow cooked stew sounds like a good idea.
Whats your go-to stew recipe? here's mine
>whatever old frozen meat i have. today it will be cubes of venison and lamb
>dredge in flour spiced with standard dried thyme, rosemary, sage
>brown in super thin layer of duck fat
>whatever random root veg i have
>shallots
>onion
>whatever stock i have lying around. will probably use some frozen stock from my deep-fried thanksgiving turkey.
>add cubed potatoes an hour before serving
>>8685268
>dredging in flour
shig, flour is a workaround for the lazy. don't you have highly concentrated stock reduction frozen in your freezer in an ice cube tray? if your stew isn't entombed in a firm gelatin at fridge temperature you're doing it wrong
>>8685280
While I agree with you 100% about using a good strong stock, that doesn't invalidate the idea of using flour to get a better sear on the meat. Coating the meat cubes in flour doesn't appreciably thicken anything anyway; browned flour has very little thickening ability.
Instead you should be bitching about people who add flour directly to the stew to thicken it.
>>8685268
>old frozen meat
how long is frozen meat save to use? what temperatures does your freezer do?
Southern food apreciation thread. Not the fanciest cuisine, but one of the most underrated for sure
do citizens of the united states truthfully consume this?
>>8685363
That looks like shit tier cafeteria food but nothing inherently wrong with it. Fried okra, shit chopped collards, a bun? (instead of cornbread I guess), and chicken, peppers, and onions.
What's wrong with that food?
>>8685363
Yeah, we have the freedom to do whatever the fuck we want
>cutting zucchini into circles
>the newly cut pieces stick to the knife
This shit drives me nuts
>pop some frozen za into the oven
>forgot to set a timer
>no way of knowing when it's done
FUCKING REEEEEEEEEEEE
>tfw no popcorn left so you have to make scrambled egg wraps instead
>>8684704
>Attempt to make homemade potato chips(crisps for Yuropoors)
>Couldn't cut them thin enough
>Friend still make fun of me a year later
Still can't get that shit thin enough. Is there some special technique, or do I just need a deli slicer or something?
Describe your favorite pizza in five words
Thicc
Crunch
Salty
Savory
Sweet
>>8684620
EXTRA THICC
extra large double pepperoni please
>>8684626
Is this the next MLP?
Redpill me on Ken Domik
>>8684458
He hates when people forget his receipt for some reason.
He and Daym Drops made a failed food convention called Cravecon.
His son is gay.
He's a one trick pony.
Tax evading scum
>>8684465
That failed? I kinda feel bad for him. I still hate him though.
Anyone know a way to eat a lot of salt (or salt substitute) without all of the major health problems that accompany eating alot of salt?
I like to eat rock salt, but I don't want to die
>>8683985
Medschool anon here there's no way to consume rock salt without fucking up your stomach bad. A concentrated amount of any salt will poison the hell out of you.
>>8683985
rock salt = suicide
When you say "I like to eat rock salt" are you talking about on top of/in food, or are you literally chomping down on a big ol' chunk of salt?
Penne is literally the worst pasta
Prove me wrong, you can't.
>>8683870
>What is Angel Hair
Glass noodles
Conchiglie exists.
Conchiglioni exists.
>>8684512
Not a pasta.
Are you ready for this?
realtime
Look, if something isn't going in your butt I'm not going to follow this thread.
>>8683695
>>8683686
Oh this will be good...
What is your favorite "fusion" recipe?
>>8683645
god i wish that were me
>>8683645
until i saw the medical tools i legit thought that was a cake at some fucked up specialty shop and not a medical museum or some shit
OT: any western meat can be improved by korean bbqing it except for the already perfect American BBQ. and any variation of the chinese dumpling, no matter how bastardized, is good
>>8683645
for me, it's crab legs in movie theaters