The Late Night Gourmet
Home kook
- Joined
- 30 Mar 2017
- Local time
- 2:07 AM
- Messages
- 5,717
- Location
- Detroit, USA
- Website
- absolute0cooking.com
This might sound like a dumb question (and maybe it is), but I thought about this as I prepared my salad for lunch today. I always pack the greens separately from the other vegetables, meat separately from the vegetables, and of course the dressing is also separate. But, what I do next depends greatly on whether I'm going to take a picture or just eat it.
Take this salad, for example:
No, this is not the salad I brought to lunch today. But, observe the attractive arrangement of the spinach leaves, egg, and other components. If I had that served to me, I would think, Wow, that looks beautiful, and then I would attack it with my knife and fork, and it would look something like this:
I always cut my salad into pieces and then distribute the components so I have an even distribution. Ideally, every forkful has the same proportion of everything.
I simply never eat the salad the way it's plated (unless it already looks like the second picture). In the above case, I don't want to:
But, maybe some of you are different. I can understand the benefit to not rushing through meals. But, eating a salad while maintaining the plating seems like a lot of work to me.
Take this salad, for example:
No, this is not the salad I brought to lunch today. But, observe the attractive arrangement of the spinach leaves, egg, and other components. If I had that served to me, I would think, Wow, that looks beautiful, and then I would attack it with my knife and fork, and it would look something like this:
I always cut my salad into pieces and then distribute the components so I have an even distribution. Ideally, every forkful has the same proportion of everything.
I simply never eat the salad the way it's plated (unless it already looks like the second picture). In the above case, I don't want to:
- slice off a little piece of egg
- stab a few sprouts
- stab a few leaves
- scoop up some onion
- dip it in the dressing
- repeat
But, maybe some of you are different. I can understand the benefit to not rushing through meals. But, eating a salad while maintaining the plating seems like a lot of work to me.
Last edited: