Is "plating" a meme?

My dad fucked my mom and that's how I got born

No. It's the act of putting food on a plate. Are you retarded or something?

>>9269856
kind of. I only give a shit if I'm purposely cooking a nice meal for other people and I want them to be impressed. if it just my immediate family I don't give a shit

>>9269865
>It's the act of putting food on a plate.
Well la-dee-dah, your royal highness. I'm sorry we can't all afford your silk-lined plates and absodian forks but here in the real world, most people eat straight out of the frying pan.

Presentation is just a meme designed to detract you from the actual quality of the food. I mean come on, you're not japanese you don't believe in all this feng-shui voodoo chi bullshit about proper placement, just eat the fucking food and enjoy it instead of taking pictures to put on you instagram you millenial normie cuck.

>>9269872
some faggot took time to right this autism

>>9269886
>right this autism
Found the brainlet.

>>9269856
not really no, you take the major senses into account, if the best tasting and smelling dish in the world looks like a pile of shit then it will detract from the enjoyment

>>9269893
in my defense, I am very drunk

>>9269856
Yes. Putting the fucking food on the fucking plate is not complicated. It's not anything that really deserves a name. It's completely literally the last thing the chef should worry about.

>>9269872
>absodian
Found the brainlet.

>>9269856
No, but pretentiously tiny portion sizes are.

>>9269856
Asking if things are a meme is a meme.

>>9269984
No, those have a legitimate purpose in tasting menus where you're going to try as many as a dozen courses in one meal. You'll never need to know about those though.

>>9269856
It's necessary for you to not feel like a dumbass for paying for it.

>>9270009
Stating things are a meme is also a meme tho.

Okay. Take a fully prepared burger. Now disassemble it and toss everything into a bowl. Give it to the customer and see what happens.

can someone please tell me what a meme is

>>9270144
Asking what a meme is is a meme.

>>9269984
Nothing wrong with small portion sizes in a multi-course meal. The real issue is that the plates are too large.

It's dumb, to be sure, but there is a class of imbeciles that believe it distinguishes mediocre food from "gourmet." That's why "chefs" put so much emphasis on it. "Money from nothing."

>my current wench, Salania Lumpflestein, kept harping about the restaurant of the momo-ment where the reality star of the day ate, so we had to go and try it. I noticed the plating had the aesthetic of a Dahli painting, and complimented the chef on his artismo while Salania wandered off to converse with the famous Slip Realitard. All in all a favorable experience although it took me a long time to find Salania after she disappeared with Slip.

>>9270144
You are

>>9269866
This

>>9269856

Plating like the pic in the OP is a waste, in general. Is anyone going to distribute those sauces evenly among the 4 pieces of fish besides the most pretentious of us? No.

I get why it exists, it's a little bit of art with your food if you're that ostentatious.

Because of my job, I eat with a lot of people who find this important, and it drives me nuts.

Some restaurants/chefs want to provide patrons with a full sensory experience, not just basic sustenance. This doesn't excuse dumb ass shit like plating on a cutting board though.

>>9270144
It's a word chantards have run into the ground by applying it to every goddamn thing people might talk about. It's an excuse to shitpost threads about nothing.

>>9270419
It depends on the style of food though. If you're eating haute cuisine, you expect the food to be presented elegantly. If you're eating barbecue, it better be on a basic bitch plate loaded edge-to-edge with ribs, pulled pork, brisket, baked beans, potato salad, and cornbread, with a roll of paper towels instead of napkins on the table. Japanese food you expect it to be elegant. Chinese you expect it to be family-style with a central platter.

>>9269856
If you post something you cooked on /ck/ inevitably will say something like

>Looks cooked to perfection, moist and tender. A well balanced meal.
>Very appetizing, I imagine it tastes like nectar straight from Zeus' cock.
>Plating is shit
>Overall? 3/10

>>9270419

> Is anyone going to distribute those sauces evenly among the 4 pieces of fish besides the most pretentious of us? No.

i don't think you have to be pretentious to do that anon. you just have to want the sauce

There's a difference between putting proper food nicely on a plate and using tweezers to arrange razor thin strips of meat next to a sauce smear and a sad, crumpled piece of vegetable.

>>9269856
You're not using the word meme correctly, so, no.