What Do You Like Your Food Served on?

Do you prefer your food to be served on a plate?

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Katniss

Katniss

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I was just reading about the new trend started by restaurants to serve their food on unusual items. This might sound a tad old fashioned but I prefer my food on a plate. A few months ago I was served my meal on a tatty piece of wood and I felt like asking for a boring plate. Would you use a plank of wood to serve food to your family? I don't think so ... Also what is the point of putting chips in a small metal basket? I do wonder how they wash it all afterwards because I bet they don't fit well in your average dishwasher.

The newest trend is to serve your drink in a jam jar .... when will it all end?

Here is the article I was talking about.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/f...ls-served-bricks-shopping-trolleys-PIPES.html
 
Floss

Floss

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I prefer a plate had a starter served on a small wooden board at the post hose once and there wasn't any room for movement, soon as I placed my knife and fork onto the food fell off the sides. Also has a chicken burger at the Aston marina and the board was really grubby looking and scratched so stale food could be in the cracks, I couldn't eat the meal my oh eats anything but even he said it was pretty disgusting.
 
Lucy

Lucy

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OH had a burger served in a silver tray at the weekend
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We want plates is a very good twitter account to follow.
 
Entropy

Entropy

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I'm not a fan of this trend either.........Hipster places trying to be quirky...no....stop....it looks stupid......the worst I've seen is the deconstructed type menus....They provide you components and YOU make the meal.....

Kinda lazy....

E.G. - Deconstructed cheesecake.......No sir......that's a digestive crumbled up, a fruit based sauce and some flavor whipped cheese cream.....NOT cheesecake

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But back to topic.......Completely agree....no fry up on a shovel, plank of wood from the scrappy......It would be interesting to see if they do clean them thoroughly?

Give the company I work for, hygiene and bacterial growth testing is our thing...Interesting to swab one and see what grows....
 
Katniss

Katniss

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This might look pretty but it is hard to keep it on your plate when you are eating it.

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Katniss

Katniss

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I know a lot of restaurants use white plates which I do myself on special occasions but why not use a coloured plate to make the food look more interesting.

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hop

hop

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Entropy said:
I think this prat has a lot to do with this sudden trend of odd serving plates etc......

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I disagree. Heston owns multiple establishments. The clostest comparison to these places in terms of price point and which he owns being the Hinds Head.

In the Hinds Head food is served on normal plates.

Perhaps restaurants at the lower prices points should stop trying to pretend they are Michelin starred as a way of increasing the sales price.
 
proactive

proactive

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Gramaisc said:
If the food is interesting, then it will look interesting anyway.
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On the whole, true enough. Plates seem to be used to poncify things.

Whatever the plate though, there's nothing worse than a plate with very little on it.
 
Entropy

Entropy

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hop said:
I disagree. Heston owns multiple establishments. The clostest comparison to these places in terms of price point and which he owns being the Hinds Head.

In the Hinds Head food is served on normal plates.

Perhaps restaurants at the lower prices points should stop trying to pretend they are Michelin starred as a way of increasing the sales price.
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Definitely see your point there......average trying to imitate and just getting a bit silly with it....I mean, come on!!?! Seriously!!?
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I'm not even sure what this is supposed to be???

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joshua

joshua

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Entropy said:
It would be interesting to see if they do clean them thoroughly?
Given the company I work for, hygiene and bacterial growth testing is our thing...Interesting to swab one and see what grows....
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Dont the burgers at the Bear Grill mostly come on wood slabs, perhaps Chris Lewis could let us know how hygiene is maintained.
 
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Gramaisc

Gramaisc

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joshua said:
The burgers at the Bear Grill mostly come on wood slabs, perhaps Chris Lewis could let us know how hygene is maintained
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I remember, many years ago, when there was a marketing push on 'modern' plastic chopping boards, that it was found that old beech chopping boards were actually no less 'clean' in normal, everyday use.

For me, it's more of a practicality issue - the slightly raised edge of a 'normal' plate is just much more 'user-friendly', as we seem to say these days.
 
Lucy

Lucy

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@Wormella could probably inform me better, but when I was doing Computing at Staffs we were told there was no such thing as 'user-friendly'.
 
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