Plates, are they going out of fashion?

Frank the tank

I watch some cooking programmes on tv and over recent months I've noticed these tv chefs have taken to dishing their snap out on breadboards, slates and that sort of thing.

I may be a stick in the mud but ffs I like my dinner on a plate.

chrisaonabike

Frank the tank wrote:

I watch some cooking programmes on tv and over recent months I've noticed these tv chefs have taken to dishing their snap out on breadboards, slates and that sort of thing.

I may be a stick in the mud but ffs I like my dinner on a plate.

Be grateful if they even cook it for you... there's a steak restaurant in the West End where they bring a slab of dead cow out on a red hot stone, and you cook it yourself a mouthful at a time!

tim_wand

Frank the tank wrote:

I watch some cooking programmes on tv and over recent months I've noticed these tv chefs have taken to dishing their snap out on breadboards, slates and that sort of thing.

I may be a stick in the mud but ffs I like my dinner on a plate.

I ve never seen anyone from Hucknall eat anything that didnt come direct out of silver foil and could be consumed with your hands only.

random man

tim wand wrote:

Frank the tank wrote:

I watch some cooking programmes on tv and over recent months I've noticed these tv chefs have taken to dishing their snap out on breadboards, slates and that sort of thing.

I may be a stick in the mud but ffs I like my dinner on a plate.

I ve never seen anyone from Hucknall eat anything that didnt come direct out of silver foil and could be consumed with your hands only.

Bit harsh Tim, haven't you seen chip cones?

RideOnTime

soup in a basket.

Frank the tank

tim wand wrote:

Frank the tank wrote:

I watch some cooking programmes on tv and over recent months I've noticed these tv chefs have taken to dishing their snap out on breadboards, slates and that sort of thing.

I may be a stick in the mud but ffs I like my dinner on a plate.

I ve never seen anyone from Hucknall eat anything that didnt come direct out of silver foil and could be consumed with your hands only.

That might be why I nearly choked to death (honestly) the last time I had owt to eat in Newark.

oldhairylegs

Frank the tank wrote:

I may be a stick in the mud but ffs I like my dinner on a plate.

Am with you there Frank - just a load of pretentious clap-trap served up on summat that can't have gravy poured over it without it running all over the place....

cornerblock

oldhairylegs wrote:

Frank the tank wrote:

I may be a stick in the mud but ffs I like my dinner on a plate.

Am with you there Frank - just a load of pretentious clap-trap served up on summat that can't have gravy poured over it without it running all over the place....

Gravy? You mean jus, non?

Yellow Peril

totally with you on this Frank. slates, breadboards, traffic cones, radiator grilles. It's just bllox

Loretta Damage

I had a curry in Ealing years ago that was served on banana plant leaves. Bit weird but didn't detract from that fact the food was amazing. ORPs (ration packs) out of a foil bag are pretty good though - no washing up, but a week on lamb curry for every meal can play merry hell with your insides.

tlw1

It's just a fashion thing, they will come round again......

AlexMac1973

This really winds me up! I used to run a 3 rosette restaurant and it's all fair and well making things look decorative when the food is on the pass but then you have to get it to the customer without it looking like a mashed up mess.

Slate and marble aren't light either, then you have the weight of the food on top of that, then you've got to have steady hand to get it to a table in one piece. I used to know waitresses that struggled to carry food to a table because of this type of instance, whats wrong with just using a normal villeroy & boch plates :roll: .

capt_slog

Plates went out of fashion along with gravy. Bits of slate and gravy are not compatible.

Giraffoto

My pet peeve was the "arrange it all in a twee little tower" fad. There's only one way to do that properly: slice of bread, butter, ham, cheese, butter, slice of bread. That's how you arrange food in a tower!

The things they put on the menu are a bit silly too - really long winded descriptions like "pan fried fillet of Atlantic haddock with pommes frites and a jus of petits pois, served on a bed of the Evening Standard". And "pan fried" suggests that they've stopped cooking their grub on a shovel in the firebox of a steam engine recently enough to still be proud of it.

MisterMuncher

Or, y'know, not deep-fried.

Lagrange

Loretta Damage wrote:

I had a curry in Ealing years ago that was served on banana plant leaves. Bit weird .

Aha - so that's where it went. Had a curry in Ealing and honked up all over the banana plant. What a mess...

ballysmate

Yeah there are some pretentious twats out there running restaurants. Just print the menus in plain language and serve the stuff on a proper plate.
Oh, and the people serving up this food really like it when I refer to them as being a cook. It's "Chef" don't you know.

Yossie

I bet the feckers have no idea how to do a decent steak in water either. Peasants.

Lagrange

Yossie wrote:

I bet the feckers have no idea how to do a decent steak in water either. Peasants.

Is that a sea-horse?

Monkeypump

Yossie wrote:

I bet the feckers have no idea how to do a decent steak in water either. Peasants.

Monkeypump

Frank the tank wrote:

I watch some cooking programmes on tv and over recent months I've noticed these tv chefs have taken to dishing their snap out on breadboards, slates and that sort of thing.

I may be a stick in the mud but ffs I like my dinner on a plate.

Not just any old breadboard, mind. Reclaimed, antique or vintage, of course.

tlw1

Yossie wrote:

I bet the feckers have no idea how to do a decent steak in water either. Peasants.

not a clue, the staff do it for me

willhub

They are, I just eat out of a pan, saves on washing up and they're better to hold.

Lagrange

....lavatory plan

Frank the tank

willhub wrote:

They are, I just eat out of a pan, saves on washing up and they're better to hold.

That's a someone who's been on a "uni-life and how to survive on a student loan programme" speaking.