Food Presentation

Food Presentation - Is food tastier if it looks better on the plate?
@stvasile (7306)
Romania
September 10, 2008 8:19am CST
How much do you care how your food looks like on your plate? Do you add certain leaves or sauces just for the looks or you don't give too much on the presentation. I don't care about the presentation at all. Actually, sometimes, I eat straight from the pot . I hate it when I eat out when they put all kinds of useless stuff on the plate just to make it look good.
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8 responses
@quawertz (777)
• Philippines
11 Sep 08
I really don't mind any of the presentation. I will eat it anyways and it will still be ruined. The taste is more important than the look/presentation. If the presentation is so good then it will be shame to eat the food.
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
11 Sep 08
It's true that some chefs make their plates look like art, and we can be sorry for eating it, but in the end the food is meant to feed us, not to please our eye. I'm glad we agree on this topic.
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@Pompon (1757)
• Poland
11 Sep 08
I don't focus on presentation. Sometimes the plate looks so good but then the taste is very so so, like meat is too hard or dry. Well it's a nice touch and if decoration is edible I eat it but I rarely do something about the food I serve in my house:P
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
11 Sep 08
There are some decoration items for food that are edible, but I think few people eat it. For example, I hate seeing something like a lettuce leaf that has nothing to do with the rest of the food... Or parsley... My God, I hate parsley more than anything! And they put it in every food...
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@MsTickle (25180)
• Australia
20 Sep 08
My ex used to tease me if I dropped food on his plate anyhow or roughly...he would say "presentation is everything". Normally I serve things so that they are appealing to the eye...I don't go overboard with garnishes or sauces but my food looks neat on the plate...having those little niceties when I go out ...the fancy touches, is one of the reasons I like to go out! I would never eat from the pot...that's uncivilised for me....no offence...to each his own.
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
20 Sep 08
I see, it is indeed nice to see food looking good on the plate, and if you have the time and resources to do it, it's only natural to do it, right? Thanks for the response!
@eagle_f15 (1827)
• Malaysia
11 Sep 08
Hey you are not the only one who eats out of the pot. There's only my husband and me in at home. I would cook soup, a main meat dish and a vege and we eat it with rice for lunch. We will drink the soup out of the pot and sometimes as well for the meat dish. Why transfer the food to another bowl or plate...easier to eat straight from the pot. Saves washing of another bowl/plate, saves my preparation time....so its into the pot to cook, out of the pot to eat for us.
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
11 Sep 08
I feel the same way about getting another plate dirty... There's a saying in my country, that I hear most of the time people see me eating from the pot. They say that if you eat from the pot, it will rain on your wedding day. My response is always the same - there is another saying that if it rains on your wedding day, you will have lots of money in your marriage. So, let me eat so it can rain!
@rainmark (4302)
10 Sep 08
Food presentation.lols im not practising that. I just put foods on the plate and then serve it.I maybe try hard to do that good presentation if it's a very special ocassion coz i don't like to get embarrass to my visitor.But in day to day meals? shame.Happy myloting!
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
10 Sep 08
I totally agree. It would be a waste of time - it goes in the belly anyway
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@pmenard (139)
10 Sep 08
If I am having guests over I definately think about presentation. Especially for hors d'oeuvres. I have been known to put different levels on cheese plates, etc. The food looks even better when you know how to show it off. If I make a big salad for people I do the same thing. Pretty means tasty to a lot of people.
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@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
11 Sep 08
That's true, sometimes we need to impress some guests, like our boss or someone we have romantic interest in. These are indeed occasions when we need to work on the presentation.
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@tigerdragon (4297)
• Philippines
23 Sep 08
this is like saying a clothe is a clothe or a phone is a phone just as long it do what it does. the presentation is part and parcel of eating, if the presentation to some people is not appetizing then they won't partake of the food. of course, if you are to eat in a restaurant, you may expect a different food presentation for your palate but if you are just to simply fill in your stomach then that is a different story.
@Foxfire1875 (2010)
10 Sep 08
I don't care at all, as it's all about the taste. I'd rather eat something that tasted fantastic but looked bad, than eat something which looked good but had no taste. It's a waste of time and effort as the first thing you do is cut up and mix the different foods together to get a taste of it all. I found as well that all the fancy presentation actually makes it difficult to eat the food as you need to move it around to get at it.
@stvasile (7306)
• Romania
11 Sep 08
That's true, the taste is more important than the presentation. After all, food is not made to please the eye, it's made to fill the belly.
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