8th round of the 5th Annual /ck/ Top Master Iron Chef Ultimate Nightmare Kitchen Survivor Challenge!
This is the first of the elimation rounds! If you are not part of the contestants still in the running, feel free to post along, however I will not be tallying the scores. But the more entries the better!
Here's the list of those who made the top 8!
Nack
Fantastic
dice
CookingRei
Yellowmug
Studentfag
asdf
Eyepatch
Reminder :
-Please timestamp your submission! Detailing the cooking process/posting a vertical is encouraged but not required. If posting multiple photos, you don't need to timestamp each one, as long as the final submission photo is timestamped.
-You MUST use a unique identifier; if you don't want to use a tripcode, you must have some other way to distinguish yourself from the other contestants, such as a cute bird or scary statue in your timestamped entry, as long as it's clearly visible and you use it consistently.
**Also, please be nice to each other. I'm growing incredibly tired of the toddle's tantrums being thrown around this year.***
Voting will be carried out in this thread. Please read the voting guidelines below.
>>7616090
VOTING GUIDELINES
Voting follows an 'Iron Chef' style scoring system. This means you, the people of /ck/, will judge each entry individually instead of deciding on what you feel is the "best" dish.
Dishes are scored out of a total 20 points, based on 4 categories (worth a maximum of 5 points each); Presentation, Originality, Appeal and Challenge Goals. You may award 0's if you feel the contestant did not meet your expectations for a category.
-Presentation: The appearance of items on the plate; plating skills
-Originality: Creativity in composing the dish
-Appeal: How appetizing the food looks/whether or not the dish appeals to your personal taste as a voter
-Challenge Goals: How closely the entry followed the challenge goal(s)
The distinction between Presentation and Appeal: If someone submits an artfully arranged but burnt steak as an entry, it may score high in Presentation but low in Appeal.
For additional info and to see submissions from Previous years, check out the Challenge blog. (http://ckchallenge.blogspot.ca/)
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Copypasta Scoring Format for Lazymodo
Presentation: /5
Originality: /5
Appeal: /5
Challenge Goals: /5
Total: /20
The theme of Round Eight is...
Colors
No a roll round this year since that got me a ban warning... Still, pick a color and make that color the absolute essence of your dish. While you're perfectly welcome to make a large spread of food, please make sure there is clearly a "main dish" because that is what people will be voting on.
Two contestants will not be moving on to the next round.
Scorecard.
Yellowmug, as the winner of the round, please get in touch with me for your prize.
>>7616100
>Yellowmug, as the winner of the round
>inb4 shitstorm
Will we be marked down for using black or white since they are technically shades and not colors?
>>7616154
Nah, go ahead. As far as I'm concerned if you get a mostly/all white dish to photograph properly you get thumbs up.
>>7616100
>yellowmug winning round
>in before everyone inversely votes against these high score troll votes for the remainder of this contest
>>7616098
Stupid theme
>>7616100
Let me guess, you discarded any of his votes under 10, but counted the blatantly high ones?
I'm invoking Article 32 of the "/ck/ Bullshit" convention.
An official investigation into the bullshit that happened last around is now open.
>>7616252
I skipped the obvious trolls, included all the other, because the trolls stopped being funny or clever at least a month ago.
>>7616371
I wasn't trolling. I genuinely thought his dish was very weak. But whatever
>>7616244
It was one of the most requested in the theme suggestions thread.
>>7616563
I would prefer if you just assigned everyone a color, but I could also see how that could cause a shitstorm. Fuck that hot pocket eating, fun ruining faggot that gave you a warning for the rolling thing.
>>7616577
No way, no way. Tried it once, doesn't work. You got four guys all fighting over who's gonna be Mr. Black, but they don't know each other, so nobody wants to back down. No way. I pick. You're Mr. Pink. Be thankful you're not Mr. Yellow.
>>7616098
My colour is going to be beige
Bubble, you should have assigned colors, I see a shitstorm a brewin'.....
Wait, so are we supposed to all claim a color before other people do? Or are we just supposed to pick any color we want and have the entire dish be that color?
I'll assign the colours:
Nack - Red
Fantastic - Yellow
dice - Green
CookingRei - Orange
Yellowmug - Teal
Studentfag - White
asdf - Black
Eyepatch - Purple
>>7616622
>Yellowmug not yellow
>>7616624
Doesn't matter what color yellowmug is when he'll just flood the round with high scores again with Bubble deleting all the counter troll scores
>>7616636
Yeah i agree, i think we should bring back lyin thomas
>>7616608
Just pick one for your own dish. You can announce it or not, your choice.
>>7616588
Last year we made people roll. I think a good half rolled "brown/earth tones" . It's was kinda hilarious.
>>7616653
So you're saying there was cheating last year too
>>7616622
I'll bite. Red it is.
>>7616662
You must be very, very stupid.
>>7616622
what foods are teal?
>>7616996
Pineapples taste teal.
>>7617006
I don't think it counts if you have to take horse tranquilizers to get the desired effect.
>>7616996
lightly browned bacon fat
>>7617701
nevermind i thought teal was a light shade of brown (i don't art) bacon fat that is teal probably should not be eaten.
Teal gets its name from the colored area around the eyes of the common teal, a member of the duck family.
someone should make a roasted duck that looks alive.
I've been circling the drain for a while now, I thought I'd be out a round or two earlier were it not for better competitors dropping out!
I'd just like to say thanks everyone for your votes, your critiques and thanks BubbleBurst for organising the competition. I'm definitely a casual cook and entered my first chicken wing dish on a whim (tragically my highest scored dish...!) but this competition has given me the inspiration to keep trying new ingredients, new cooking methods, and most of all, work on my plating skills!
Here are a few things I've learned in these past weeks:
- Presentation is definitely my biggest flaw. Any advice on this greatly appreciated.
- When trying a recipe for something you've never attempted before, never cut corners and follow it to the letter. You probably don't know better and it won't taste or look as good as it should.
- Picture quality makes all the difference to how your food is perceived. A shitty point and click, weird angles and zooms, shit lighting, etc, just won't cut it.
- Challenges with the most flexible interpretations (such as Fire and Childhood) were more fun to work with, and also for seeing how others interpreted them, in my opinion.
- Flambeing isn't as terrifying as you'd expect
- White truffle oil is still a meme
- There will always be trolls, and there's nothing you can do. I think a few posters replying and getting upset just fanned the flames and brought down the enthusiasm and camaraderie in the competition.
- That being said, never enter a dish that your grandma used to make and tell 4chan about it. I'm kidding!
Good luck to the rest of the contestants, I'll be watching (and from now, voting)!
>>7618355
Sad to see you go, really... Good luck in your future endeavours!
For presentation, check out ChefSteps, they have a few videos on that
>>7616100
Can someone explain the "Cumulative - eliminations" column?
Eyepatch here. I made Green Grindage. It's kale pasta with basil spinach pesto and sausage rolled in sauteed spinach leaves. There's a basil garnish in the middle, but it's hard to see. Everything was homemade except for the sausage. Timestamp and identifier incoming.
>>7618706
>>7618706
Here's another picture. I couldn't decide which one to use first.
>>7618707
Usually the timestamp is supposed to be in a picture with the food.
>>7618738
yeah, I didn't realize how crappy that shot was until it was too late. I can retake it with the leftovers if people want me too.
>>7618706
>sausage rolled in spinach leaves
it looks like you just covered up the sausage with some leftover spinach leaves for the colour
the dish looks appetising otherwise
>>7618899
>you just covered up the sausage with some leftover spinach leaves for the colour
Kind of this.
Also, if you're going to claim you made everything from scratch why not share some of the pictures of the pasta and sauce being made, instead of posting multiple pictures of the final dish?
>>7618379
Total score of the elimination rounds (so excluding the open rounds)
On the last round the contestants get a choice.. winner will either have the highest score in that column or we'll do it "Sudden death" style and the winner of the round wins it all.
>>7618706
What kind of sausage did you use?
Should have stuck around just for this round. Oh well.
I would have chosen black.
Fried chicken with some dank collard greens.
Wonder how that would have done.
_Racer X
>>7619786
Why don't you contribute anyway?
>>7618899
Well, the leaves wouldn't roll right, so I did do a few patch/ cover jobs.
>>7618909
I didn't take pictures while I was cooking, but multiple shots were taken of the final product. I don't care if anyone believes me or not this late into the game. I really don't give a shit whether I make it into the next rounds or not either. I'm honestly surprised I've made it this far. Those are all valid criticisms though.
>>7619786
You can participate to this round, even continue to the end.
You just won't get the final price (an apron or something).
>>7619786
Neither of those are black.
>>7620683
they black like watermelon and violent crime are black
>>7618711
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 12/20
It sounds quite nice but it doesn't look very appealing. The pasta looks mushy and overcooked, as does the spinach. It also looks somewhat insubstantial.
>>7618706
I actually googled "grindage" thinking it might be some Italian dish I'd never heard of.
Looks like it's just a Pauly Shore term for food not homemade, nor including spinach or kale.
>>7622832
lel
>>7622020
I'll be honest, the pasta was super soft because I had never made pasta dough with water before. I only cooked it for about a minute, and it was still super mushy. The spinach looks overcooked because I cooked it in the dirty pan I used to cook the sausage in, and the spinach got brown because of it. I almost was going to 86 what I made and try again later because so many things turned out shitty, but I just said fuck it and went with it. My work schedule has changed recently, so I couldn't cook on my days off anymore (tuesday and wednesday) because they are terrible days for this competition. The change in my work schedule gives me a lot less time to cook. I had to rush my cooking before work, and I just didn't feel like redoing what I made because cooking before work kind of drains me. I work in a kitchen btw.
Black
>>7623790
>>7623791
A few things annoyed me with this vertical so I amended it.
>>7621141
Thank you for getting the joke.
/ck/ is the most ... airhead? It is the place where any joke made will just soar over the heads of posters.
Sarcasm and wit is lost here.
There's no humor, just idiocy. It sucks.
>>7623943
>any joke made will just soar over the heads of posters
No. It's just most people here are older and don't find /b/ tier jokes funny.
>>7623948
dude...
If you're too mature (pronounced muh-toor) for 4chan, then GTFO. You are a faggot.
>>7623790
>black
>half of it is white
anon pls
>>7623952
>4chan = 2007-era /b/
kill yourself
>>7624544
Hehe, thanks! I hadn't noticed. Actually, I was even more chromatically appropriate when I opened the bag of flour and spilled it all over my black shirt.
Turmeric Fried Chicken and Coconut Ginger waffles, with maple ginger compound butter and hot honey mustard. Sweet and spicy yellow Kool Aid pickles. Mustard and horseradish mac and cheese. Banana pepper corn bread, and fried yellow tomatoes.
There was no natural light, so unfortunately the only picture options were between one using a flash and one using indoor lighting, that turned everything yellow regardless of how it originally looked.
>>7626507
Vertical.
>>7626507
I'm sorry Yellowmug, every individual item looks tasty enough on its own, but I can't help but feel like you just went into your pantry and dumped out everything vaguely yellow on your plate.
I would still eat it, but these is no correlation between the items whatsoever
>>7627806
I get the feeling the theme is 'The South'.
>>7627806
youre seriously trying too hard its obviously a take on southern/soul food/comfort type food
![DSC02020-vi[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/yMmTpqJ.jpg "DSC02020-vi[1].jpg")
>>7627806
Fried chicken and waffles is a dish in the US South, sometimes served with a variety of sides.
Pic related.
>>7628074
Damn, that's a pretty good example. Kool-Aid pickled collard greens would have been pretty cool to see, actually.
>>7626507
How is this not cheating? Your second paragraph basically describes how you manipulated the picture
>>7628704
No.
>>7628704
I'm sure you have a pretty clear idea of the colours in that photo. The image is hardly misleading.
>>7628778
The image is definitely misleading if I have to imagine the colors of the different items that have all been turned yellow
>>7628905
That's obviously the picture using the flash, not the one he said made everything yellow. Look at the vertical.
>>7628910
The last picture in the vertical is the same as the doctored pic. People are going to judge based on that pic anyway
>>7628704
It's flat out cheating. Color manipulation through different lighting is just as bad as photoshopping your entry.
>>7628981
>color manipulation through different lighting
I guess everyone should be disqualified then, because that's how photography works.
>>7628993
You're just being pedantic and it's not out of the realm of possibility that the picture was manipulated on purpose
Per this gentleman >>7616622, I went with red.
Nashville chicken and sweet potato fries.
Vertical after I give the kitchen a good cleaning.
>>7629275
>>7629553
>oven fries
Also you left out the part about the sauce/glaze on the chicken, which seemed like the most important part.
>>7629568
Thought it would be fairly self-explanatory. Once the chicken is fried up, let it rest then baste with the hot sauce of your preference. Today I went with a Red Rooster Louisiana Hot Sauce. Considered a Franks Red, but Red Rooster is more authentic for this dish.
>>7629553
Do you have specific quantities for the spices on the fries or do you just throw some in? That recipe legit looks delicious.
>>7629583
>thought it would be fairly self-explanatory
Never had Nashville Chicken before, and Wikipedia just says, "sauced using a paste that has been spiced with cayenne pepper".
>>7629596
2 tbsp corn starch
1 tbsp garlic powder
1 tbsp onion powder
2 tsp cayenne
1 tsp smoked paprika
1 tsp ground black pepper
You don't want to salt at this stage because sweet potatoes are a very moist vegetable. The cornstarch aids in helping them crisp up. You run the risk of them getting soggy with oil frying them up so oven baking is a preferred method. After the get out of the oven, salt to taste.
>>7629661
I could write off both of those as shades of red. It's the pickles that seem out of place in the challenge.
>>7629626
Sweet thank you anon.
>>7629661
At least he didn't cheat
>>7616622
I played along with orange, it was great because I could fry everything!
My entry: Wings 2 ways: Mango Chutney-Curry and Cajun Buffalo with onion rings and a dip. I really don't know what to call the dip, we use for crawfish, fries, onion rings, or pretty much anything really.
I'll post my vertical later.
>>7630243
Jesus, I could go for a plate of that right about now.
>>7630243
I'd fuck this
>>7618706
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 9/20
Green seemed like the easy option, and you could have done so much more than spinach, kale, and basil. Points taken off challenge goals for hiding non green sausage under spinach leaves.
>>7623790
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 10/20
It's original insofar as I've never seen it before, but sounds pretty basic and not very appealing (I like sesame seeds, but this seems like overkill). As someone else mentioned, half the dish is white.
>>7626507
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 15/20
Did a lot with the challenge goals, but it's debatable whether everything is actually yellow. The presentation could be nicer, but that fried chicken looks really good.
>>7629275
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 10/20
I'm personally burnt out on sweet potato fries forever, so I'm biased there, but the chicken looks appealing, if not very original. Overall I don't look at the dish and see "Red".
>>7630243
Sauces sound interesting. Going to wait for the vertical.
>>7630379
yellowmug troll is back with some vote manipulation
Here's the vertical, sorry if it's a little messy and out of order. I need to get to bed before I hate myself at 6am (I will anyways...)
>>7630243
That's a remoulade sauce, sweetie.
>>7630609
Arrrrghgh! Duh! lol, My family's always just called it dip, and I forget actual words...
>>7630243
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 13/20
Nothing too original about wings and onion rings, and the presentation is what you'd get at the corner bar (not much you could do, except maybe turn over the onion rings to hide the spots where the breading came off). Still, you did the wings justice and the sauces/seasonings sound spot on. It's more than what I'd consider a serving, but I'd eat until I was full and eat the rest cold for breakfast (or in the middle of the night). Doing a full plate of fried food does seem a little cheap for the challenge goals.
>>7628074
D-do Americans really do that?
>Never mind, I checked wikipedia
Fuck you 4chan, I can't read "Soul food is a variety of cuisine that originated in African-American culture." and see the crap it is without thinking "nigger". What have you made of me?
>>7629583
I thought is was a Japanese curry sauce. (I have f.lux turned on to minimum, my screen is hue-blind.)
>>7629014
You're the one being pedantic. The majority of the posters here aren't even photographers, let alone amateur photographers. Flash and non-flash is pretty much all they know. It affects the colours but there's not much they can do about it - other than fix the colours in Photoshop/Gimp and it sounds like you would be against that too.
>>7626507
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 13/20
I feel like your presentation skills have gotten worse (I liked your previous two entries). The elements here are too disparate and I think that just moving them closer together would greatly help. Part of it might be the tray you're always using - it's large so you might be trying to compensate by spreading out the food when you have smaller food items.
The fried yellow tomatoes look a bit pathetic. I think just halving them and frying them that way would have been better.
I definitely like the idea of coconut waffles. That sounds delicious. The other items seem kind of standard but I don't doubt that they're agreeable.
>>7629275
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 11/20
Cool! I've seen Nashville chicken online quite a bit lately and it's certainly something I'd like to try. Don't have much to say about this one but it seems close to red rather than red.
>>7630243
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20
Looks like a decent platter that I'd be more than happy with getting at a pub. I like how shaggy the onion rings look. Still, nothing strikes me as something I really really want like your caramel cookie entry.
>>7629275
Presentation: 4/5
Appeal: 5/5
Originality: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 18/20
>>7616622
Was thinking hard about this round, but then remembered that asparagus season officially started about two weeks back.
I therefore made this simple yet delicious creamy white asparagus soup.
pro tip: even though the tips are the best part, that doesn't mean that they are nice enough to float and are therefore invisible in your picture
>>7631457
and here's the vertical
>>7631457
Looks great dude, big fan of asparagus soups.
>>7631457
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 1/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 8/20
I was hoping it was a pureed soup. It's pretty bare bones, and using a stock cube is a bit of a turn off with that few ingredients. It's a white soup in a white bowl.
>>7631671
Shit ability to score. Just saying.
>mfw no one is voting except for the Ramsey-esque autist
i also took the random anon's colour suggestion, so have some yellow curry
vertical incoming
>>7631749
It's been that way this entire challenge. Bubble actually wants us to shut up about it but it's obvious the guy's pretty douche-y
>>7631875
>>7631880
It wouldn't be a problem if the formula for determine score were better. Think it was either in round 2 or 3 some anon posted a really good formula over the current one that had a limiter so troll votes would be less of a problem.
>>7631899
What do you mean a limiter? How would such a thing be implemented?
>>7631457
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 10/20
Ah, I can see you in the reflection of the spoon! I agree with the other Anon in that I would have preferred a puréed soup rather than a soup with roux, cream, stock cube and diced asparagus inside. I'm also scoring low on originality because you've already done soup this competition (twice in one round as well) so it feels a bit samey. I'm not sure this soup would be as asparagus-y as I'd like either. And just one point off CG because I think there are whiter elements you could have worked with (maybe with a concentration on dairy items).
>>7631875
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 17/20
I would have liked a larger image to see what's going on but from what I can see, the presentation looks really professional. I like how you didn't go just with yellow spices but also yellow vegetables. I like the sound of the vegetables too. My only negative comment would be that the beans on top look a little floppy. Maybe just cutting them shorter would have helped. (I've given 5/5 for CG here even though the rice is white because I feel there are enough yellow elements to compensate.)
>>7631918
Honestly, I think you're just responding to trolls. Giving actual feedback is helpful to everyone and the only real way to separate actual votes from troll votes at this point.
>>7618706
-Presentation: 3/5
-Originality: 2/5
-Appeal:4/5
-Challenge Goals: 4/5
13/20
The "pile o' pasta" method is tried and true, if a little simple. Pesto and spinach and basil all sound delicious. Overall, not very creative, but a nice springtime dish.
>>7623790
-Presentation: 4/5
-Originality: 3/5
-Appeal: 4/5
-Challenge Goals: 5/5
16/20
Gooey rice balls! And an artsy photo to boot. This dish looks very inviting, and super 90's. I'm into it. Sesame tangyuan isn't the most creative, but I like what you've done with the sauce/riceball/bowl contrast.
>>7626507
-Presentation: 2/5
-Originality: 4/5
-Appeal: 4/5
-Challenge Goals: 3/5
13/20
I don't even know what's going on with what I assume are the tomatoes. I don't think you needed everything so spread out and weirdly arranged on a cutting board for chicken 'n waffles and some fixins. I dunno if "light brown" counts as "yellow". Otherwise, this shit actually looks pretty delicious. You really didn't need the mac and cheese, though.
>>7629275
-Presentation: 3/5
-Originality: 3/5
-Appeal: 5 outta fukken 5 get that shit in me
-Challenge Goals: 4/5
15/20
There's no real way to make a bourgeois presentation with Nashville hot chicken, but holy fuck does that look amazing. Coulda paprika'd up the fries a little more; they're not SUPER red, but props for making the tastiest-looking food so far.
>>7630243
-Presentation: 3/5
-Originality: 2/5
-Appeal: 5/5
-Challenge Goals: 3/5
13/20
"Frying everything" seems like the easy way out, and nothing about this is very creative, but I'll be goddamned if it doesn't look amazing. The recipe is one I'll be saving.
>>7631457
-Presentation: 2/5
-Originality: 3/5
-Appeal: 2/5
-Challenge Goals: 4/5
11/5
It really just kinda looks like cum in a bowl. You coulda done any number of things to jazz it up, and you Marco Pierre White'd with the stock cube. Still, it's certainly white, and was probably tasty enough.
>>7631875
-Presentation: 4/5
-Originality: 3/5
-Appeal: 4/5
-Challenge Goals: 5/5
16/5
This looks really good. Not the most original curry, but very nice presentation, solid approach to challenge goals, and just straight up looks like a tasty curry.
>>7623790
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 12/20
>>7626507
Presentation: 1/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 9/20
>>7629275
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 12/20
>>7630243
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20
>>7631457
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 1/5
Appeal: 1/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 9/20
>>7631875
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 1/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 8/20
>>7618706
>Presentation: 4/5
>Originality: 2/5
>Appeal: 3/5
>Challenge Goals: 4/5
>Total: 13/20
I really like the look of this, and I can tell it would be a great eat. I dinged you a little bit in originality, because with choosing green there is so much you could use, but it's pretty safe dish. Never the less, it's comfort at it's finest and I wouldn't hesitate to eat it.
>>7623790
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 1/5
Total: 10/20
The dish looks really interesting, but as people said, I'd say it's primarily white. I'm a little worried that the taste would be a little 'monochromatic' (pun intended). A lot of sesame and not too much else.
>>7626507
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 13/20
It's weird, because I think I'd like this dish way more than 11/20 but theres some things I can't get past. First of all, this is exactly what I was worried about when the theme was 'colour'. To me there's not much 'colourful' about this dish. Yes, there's varying shades of yellowy brown, which 90% of food is. My other issues are the fired tomatoes need to be in bigger chunks, and the mac and I'm just generally not a fan of your presentation over the past weeks. That being said, it looks delicious, especially the fried chicken.
>>7629275
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 14/20
Not an overly original dish, but damn does it look good. Everything looks cooked perfectly. With the colour, it's got a little more umph than above, but again, still not what I'd love to see from a colour round. Some sort of red or orange dipping sauce for the fries would have worked. But shit I want to eat this so bad. Fantastic job.
>>7630243
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 15/20
Great appy plate. It was always going to taste good, but those wing sauces are what bring it from pretty boring to pretty interesting.
I'll do the rest later.
>>7631971
You're not sure if light brown counts as yellow, but somehow white counts as black in the entry above?
>>7632001
Not him, but I think my issue with your dish in terms of challenge goals is that the round theme is 'color', and you pretty much chose the color of bread. It's just boring
>>7632001
The white rice makes the black stand out more. Nowhere in the challenge does it say "the entire dish can only be one color."
>>7632021
Not my dish.
I was just going on the understanding that the challenge goal was to only use components of the same color, per, "pick a color and make that color the absolute essence of your dish".
>>7631875
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total:13/20
Looks and sounds really nice, and you did a good job using yellow ingredients until adding the white rice. Points off for originality because it is a pretty standard curry (tasting would probably make a big difference here), and while the yellow beans add to the presentation I'm not sure how well they fit in with the rest of the dish.
Whelp, looks like this round is gonna be it for me. No hard feelings, but would just like to say that in my country this is supposed to be a pretty posh dish, and not meant to be blended, or have more ingredients than this
>>7632139
I've travelled around quite a bit, the most common way I've seen it is blended with the tips added in at the end. You're right about keeping the recipe basic, though.
>>7631958
https://warosu.org/ck/thread/S7477783#p7478934
That formula that guy posted would put these troll votes in their place. Their original discussion was on last minute voting, but it also works for high score troll votes.
>>7618706
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5 (all green except sausage)
Total: 11/20
>>7623790
Presentation: 2/5 (black doesn't look nice)
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 1/5 (the main thing is white)
Total: 9/20
>>7626507
Presentation: 3/5 (attempted plating)
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 5/5 (would be happy with just the tendies and mac and cheese)
Challenge Goals: 5/5 (multiple things all shades of yellow)
Total: 16/20
>>7629275
Presentation: 2/5 (pile of fries next to meat on a plate)
Originality: 2/5 (not anything original)
Appeal: 4/5 (oven fries)
Challenge Goals: 3/5 (pickles aren't red)
Total: 11/20
>>7630243
Presentation: 2/5 (platter of fried stuff)
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 4/5 (would eat)
Challenge Goals: 3/5 (everything is just fried)
Total: 12/20
>>7631457
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5 (it's one color but only one thing)
Total: 11/20
>>7631875
Presentation: 4/5 (very nice)
Originality: 3/5 (it's curry)
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5 (rice not yellow)
Total: 12/20
>>7632766
Troll post. Please disregard bubble.
Here's my submission based on orange:
Spicy alfredo with sopressata and peppers.
I made a simple alfredo sauce, spiced up with paprika and a bit of saffron. The sopressata cubes were sauteed with the peppers and a bit of garlic.
The rich taste of the alfredo was still great, but the spiciness of the meat and paprika made it better in my opinion.
For the pasta, I used cheese filled red tortellini.
Lastly, I decided to go for a small pallet of very similar colors instead of a single one since it adds a lot of visual appeal while still staying within the challenge goals.
>>7632895
here's a closeup
>>7632895
Looks good, if a little like heartburn.
>totally thought everyone had already submitted their entries for this round
>>7632895
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
13/20
Plating was a little weak, premade tortellini was maybe a mistake, and the colors might be closer to yellow, but overall pretty good, and it definitely seems tasty.
>>7631918
Your levels of expectation are way beyond reason for a home-chef competition, Irish Stew.
>>7632913
that's fair criticism, thanks.
I wanted to use something like pic related, but I simply don't have one...
>>7632931
Not just the actual plate, but the way things were arranged on it. Could have laid out the pasta a little more, then drained the sopressata and pepper mixture, and maybe drizzled the lovely spicy oil over the dish. It's just sorta in a neat lump.
>>7632916
^^^Don't respond to this, it's just trolling
>>7632938
oh, yeah that is a good idea I didn't think about. Thanks
>>7632931
Agreed, a pasta bowl like that would have made it look nicer. It would also make it look like a smaller portion, which I think looks classier than a big pile on a normal plate.
>>7632954
except desserts they should look as big as possible on a small plate (or a big plate)
>>7632895
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 10/20
It's hard to go wrong with a pile of meat and cheese pasta, but it's admittedly not the prettiest thing to look at. Points off on originality for using pre-made tortellini, and it would be hard to argue that there aren't multiple, contrasting colors in the dish.
>>7626507
Presentation: 1/5
Originality: 1/5
Appeal: 1/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 5/20
>>7632895
Looks great, dice! I would love some of that right about now.
>>7632941
>calling it like I see it
>trolling
>inegomontoya.jpeg
Bumping for more
>>7632895
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 2/5
points off for not making the pasta
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
I see red, yellow, and orange. The challenge was to pick ONE color, not a spectrum.
Total: 11/20
>>7634891
You're high nigger. Eyepatch clearly states that they made the pasta, and Dice admits to using store bought pasta. Eyepatch has also made pasta in other rounds, so it is likely that they did so again.
>>7634891
Cheese sauce is yellow m80.
>>7618706
Presentation: 4/5 (Plate needed something around edge)
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 3/5 (personal opinion)
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 17/20
>>7623790
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 3/5 (traditional japanese dessert)
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 18/20
>>7626507
Presentation: 2/5 (all of these pieces could have been pretty on a plate)
Originality: 3/5 (traditional soul food)
Appeal: 5/5 (made and devoured my own)
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 15/20
>>7629275
Presentation: 3/5 (Really hard to plate fries well)
Originality: 2/5 (plate has a wikipedia page)
Appeal: 4/5 (might make)
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20
>>7630243
Presentation: 3/5 (standard appetizer bar plating)
Originality: 4/5 (appetizer bar fair extra point for original wing flavors)
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 17/20
>>7631457
Presentation: 4/5 (with the color restriction soup seems like a cop out)
Originality: 1/5 (soup 101)
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20
>>7631875
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 1/5 (curry rice)
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 16/20
Presentation: 4/5 (that plate with some sauce on the side would have 5)
Originality: 2/5 (classic dish made spicy)
Appeal: 4/5 (the perfect cubes of the sausage bothers me to my core)
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 15/20
>>7634998
>traditional soul food
Coconut ginger waffles and horseradish macaroni and cheese aren't traditional soul food, as is the case with pretty much everything else in that dish.
>>7634904
>its not the first time someone uses regular pasta yet it's the first time someone complains about it
At this point in the competition most people are doing things from scratch, so the curve goes up a bit. Also, using a stuffed pasta is like buying half your dish pre-made.
That said, when people do make things from scratch they should probably provide a picture of the process if they aren't going to do a vertical. I'm not at all accusing Eyepatch of lying (just an easy example), but he could have used dried pasta and grocery store pesto without anyone being able to tell, while the final dish would be completely different if you were eating it.
>>7635049
that's why it got an extra point
i've had horseradish mac and cheese with chicken and waffles but i'm from the south so i may be biased.
though i did forget to add for the pickles 5/5 Total: 17/20
P.S. what is the flavor of "yellow" kool-aid? i want to try the pickles.
Yellowmug here.
Thanks for all the feedback. I know the cutting board isn't the best for plating, but I really don't like anything else I have available so have sort of committed myself to using it (I also like having a big spread of different things); the plating this round definitely didn't turn out as nice as it was in my head.
I did the tomatoes the way I did hoping that one side would be yellow while the other side had a fried crust. In retrospect I should have dipped them in the batter first and fried them whole, then cut them in half so there'd be a crust on the outside but you could still see the yellow interior.
>>7635154
I'd never had horseradish mac and cheese before, but now understand why it's a thing. The yellow kool aid was "lemonade" flavor. I didn't actually try it because I used the entire packet, hoping it would speed up the yellowing process over the course of the 3 or so days (I still have a few spears in the jar and expect them to be full yellow after a week).
If anyone is curious, the ratio for the liason is 1 quart heavy cream to 1 egg yolk, meaning I had lots left over (along with other ingredients). Pic related is some mac and cheese I made with leftovers (I made a horseradish cheese sauce with pretzels last night). I cooked tomatoes and banana peppers in the rest of the compound butter, added liason, grated in horseradish cheese, then tossed it with cooked pasta and chives. Only freshly fried chicken could have made it better.
>>7635395
Also, if anyone was actually confused by the second paragraph of my entry post, here is the picture without using a flash.
I actually found it kind of funny that someone could accuse me of cheating and doctoring my photo because I said I didn't have access to any good lighting.
>>7635395
>1 quart heavy cream
Meant to say 1 pint.
>>7632895
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 13/20
This did make me think 'what colour is this?' so even though there is orange, I took a point off.
>>7634998
Tang yuan is a traditional Chinese dessert. The texture is different to Japanese mochi, if that's what you're thinking of.
>>7618706
P: 2/5
O: 2/5
A: 5/5
CG: 5/5
Total: 14/20
I feel most compelled by how your dish would taste out of everyone's even though it looks wet and messy. Looks bursting with flavour, texture and experience. Would've been nice to be able to see the sausage.
>>7623790
P: 1/5
O: 4/5
A: 1/5
CG: 1/5
Total: 7/20
It's an intriguing dish, I'll give you that, but doesn't completely meet challenge goals in my mind as it's black with white. I get the impression this would taste overwhelmingly of sesame. Beyond the obscurity of dish, this is a miss for me.
>>7626507
P: 1/5
O: 3/5
A: 3/5
CG: 4/5
Total: 11/20
I think the way you arranged the food across the tray makes the meal look random and accidental rather than unified and deliberate. Interesting flavour combos, but as one anon said, it does feel like you dumped the contents of your pantry out. Nothing really speaks out to be the main focus of the dish either - am I focusing on the mac 'n' cheese or the chicken and waffles? The fried chicken/waffles looks the tastiest thing you have here though by far. I challenge you to not use your tray next week.
>>7629275
P: 3/5
O: 2/5
A: 4/5
CG: 3/5
Total: 12/20
Looks more orange/brown than red as you claim. A bit of a safe and simple choice at this stage in the game but a sound entry.
>>7630243
P: 3/5
O: 0/5
A: 5/5
CG: 0/5
Total: 8/20
Regretfully low score, but I feel that frying a load of browny-golden-orangey-battered-crumby food and passing it all off as one colour is a swick. The platter looks fucking delicious, don't get me wrong, but I feel you didn't really step up to the creativity of what this challenge asked for and you stayed in a comfort zone.
>>7631457
P: 2/5
O: 2/5
A: 2/5
CG: 5/5
Total: 11/20
In your defense, it's all one colour, but not a very exciting dish visually or in perceived taste. The crossed asparaguses on the left don't really add to either the dish value or the presentation
>>7631875
P: 2/5
O: 2/5
A: 5/5
CG: 2/5
Total: 11/20
Curry looks delicious, but I get the impression you shoehorned a lot of yellow ingredients in there to make it fit for the challenge. And yet too many of the other ingredients' colours in there detract from the yellow anyway.
>>7632895
P: 3/5
O: 3/5
A: 5/5
CG: 0/5
Total: 11/20
Another delicious and stimulating dish from you but I do not agree that it met the "absolute essence" of the colour orange. Sorry!
home and tallying.
>>7636048
Aren't there still 4 more hours?
>>7636055
yes. But tmr is a friend's bday so I'll likely be having spotty wifi to post the new thread and I like to have some of the tallying done.
>>7636079
>I like to have some of the tallying done
Any chance you will post the new thread tonight?
>>7636166
Whats the point when the contest has become a troll-fest of scores.
>>7636186
I like seeing what the anons can come up with in terms in recipes. I think it's inspiring.
>>7636186
Some people are taking the contest seriously. Why are you here?
>>7618706
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 14/20
>>7623790
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 11/20
>>7626507
Presentation: 1/5
Originality: 5/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 11/20
>>7629275
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 12/20
>>7630243
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 16/20
>>7631457
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 13/20
>>7631875
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 14/20
>>7632895
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 4/5
Total: 15/20
Hope I'm not too late
>>7618706
Presentation: 4/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 12/20
>>7623790
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 2/5
Challenge Goals: 1/5
Total: 8/20
>>7626507
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 4/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total: 17/20
>>7629275
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 10/20
>>7630243
Presentation: 2/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 5/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 13/20
>>7631457
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 2/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 5/5
Total:14 /20
>>7631875
Presentation: 5/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 4/5
Challenge Goals: 3/5
Total: 15/20
>>7632895
Presentation: 3/5
Originality: 3/5
Appeal: 3/5
Challenge Goals: 2/5
Total: 11/20
>>7626507
Presentation: 1/5
Originality: 1/5
Appeal: 1/5
Challenge Goals: 1/5
Total: 4/20
>>7636166
Probably not. But if I am late I will give a time extension.
