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What is it about trendy modern restaurants that HAVE to serve everything on an irregular wooden plank?

I like wood as much as the next person, but there is a time and a place!

Normal plates are more convenient and hygienic, because they can be put in the washing machine.

Get on it, restaurateurs.

You're not going to trendy enough restaurants if they serve you food on wooden planks.

The place I go to expects you to tear the flesh from your own kills and pay them $500 a head for the priviledge.

You can also put wooden planks into the dishwasher. We got a few ones at home and always put them in it. Wood isn't unhygienic at all, by the way. Just make sure that there aren't any cracks in it where food could get stuck.

Ye know what's really annoying? Glass plates. Food on glass plates looks terrible.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
What is it about trendy modern restaurants that HAVE to serve everything on an irregular wooden plank?

I like wood as much as the next person, but there is a time and a place!

Normal plates are more convenient and hygienic, because they can be put in the washing machine.

Get on it, restaurateurs.

The only time I've seen that is when served fajitas. What are you referring to. Damnit now I want some fajitas!!! CURSE YOU KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!

 Alex C wrote:
You're not going to trendy enough restaurants if they serve you food on wooden planks.

The place I go to expects you to tear the flesh from your own kills and pay them $500 a head for the priviledge.

Your restaurant expects you to KILL your meals? How pedestrian.

I'm into gastro-hunting. You have to leap from the rafters and wrestle your blindfolded meals to the ground and take a bite of it while it still lives. It's all the rage, very on-trend with the zombie movement.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
What is it about trendy modern restaurants that HAVE to serve everything on an irregular wooden plank?

I like wood as much as the next person, but there is a time and a place!

Normal plates are more convenient and hygienic, because they can be put in the washing machine.

Get on it, restaurateurs.

If you think that's bad, I'd advise you not to read this guardian article on the same subject - your blood pressure will skyrocket!

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/16/plates-slates-backlash-gimmicky-serving-dishes

As someone who recently had to do a stint washing dishes in a restaurant (it sucks), you most definitely can put a wood plank through a dishwashing machine, at least thats what we did. Is it bad for the wood? Probably. But it grows on trees, so who cares? That being said, its an absolutely stupid way to serve food, the biggest issue, IMO, more than any other is that the plank doesnt have a lip around it, thus any ketchup or sauces that might be poured on it have a tendency to leak off the edge

 gunslingerpro wrote:

 Alex C wrote:
You're not going to trendy enough restaurants if they serve you food on wooden planks.

The place I go to expects you to tear the flesh from your own kills and pay them $500 a head for the priviledge.

Your restaurant expects you to KILL your meals? How pedestrian.

I'm into gastro-hunting. You have to leap from the rafters and wrestle your blindfolded meals to the ground and take a bite of it while it still lives. It's all the rage, very on-trend with the zombie movement.

Wood is most often used for meat servings, mostly steaks. No problems with sauce etc. and it looks really appetizing.

 Sigvatr wrote:
Wood is most often used for meat servings, mostly steaks. No problems with sauce etc. and it looks really appetizing.

In Germany maybe, in the US its usually used for hamburgers. Even with a streak though, there are still juices (and/or steaksauce) to contend with.

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:


If you think that's bad, I'd advise you not to read this guardian article on the same subject - your blood pressure will skyrocket!

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/16/plates-slates-backlash-gimmicky-serving-dishes

I don't know. I generally agree with KK on this, but the barbed wire one kind of appeals to me.

I prefer the slabs of rock they use around here. Typically slate or shale.

Then, they deconstruct the food into its components and you have to do any assembly yourself.

Service!

 Kilkrazy wrote:
What is it about trendy modern restaurants that HAVE to serve everything on an irregular wooden plank?

I like wood as much as the next person, but there is a time and a place!

Normal plates are more convenient and hygienic, because they can be put in the washing machine.

Get on it, restaurateurs.

Those bloody planks are only good for thrashing the idiot chef who thought it a good idea serving food on those abominations. The only thing worse is those fake pies. You know the ones: A bowl of stew with a puff pastry lid. I want a proper pie with pastry all over. Not a flat pack fecking pie. This isn't piekea. Savages

 zedmeister wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
What is it about trendy modern restaurants that HAVE to serve everything on an irregular wooden plank?

I like wood as much as the next person, but there is a time and a place!

Normal plates are more convenient and hygienic, because they can be put in the washing machine.

Get on it, restaurateurs.

Those bloody planks are only good for thrashing the idiot chef who thought it a good idea serving on those abominations. The only thing worse is those fake pies. You know the ones: A bowl of stew with a puff pastry lid. I want a proper pie with pastry all over. Not a flat pack fecking pie. This isn't piekea. Savages

As far as I'm concerned, a pie ain't a pie unless it you can pick it up and not have the innards fall out. 'Soup Avec Le Lid Du Pastry Puff' does not a pie make.

As for the wooden 'plates', that's just pointless gimmickry and stupidity. We invented the plate so we wouldn't need to eat off wood/rocks.

 zedmeister wrote:
This isn't piekea. Savages

 Kilkrazy wrote:
What is it about trendy modern restaurants that HAVE to serve everything on an irregular wooden plank?

Because everyone else is doing it.

I like wood as much as the next person, but there is a time and a place!

BOOM, PHRASING!

Normal plates are more convenient and hygienic, because they can be put in the washing machine.

Eh. Hot water and a clean soaping can do the trick as well as most dishwashing machines.

 Paradigm wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, a pie ain't a pie unless it you can pick it up and not have the innards fall out.

Methinks you haven't had a proper American Granny made Apple pie, or Cherry Pie, or the like.... A GOOD apple pie means when you serve it, you cut the pieces, and you gotta be lightning quick to the plate with the slice because them innards is gonna be outards pretty quick.


Also... I've never been to a restaurant that actually served real food on a wooden thing. I've had plenty of fish that's been cooked on a cedar plank, and plenty of places bring the table's bread out on basically a cutting board.... but never a full meal.

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, a pie ain't a pie unless it you can pick it up and not have the innards fall out.

Methinks you haven't had a proper American Granny made Apple pie, or Cherry Pie, or the like.... A GOOD apple pie means when you serve it, you cut the pieces, and you gotta be lightning quick to the plate with the slice because them innards is gonna be outards pretty quick.

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Well, since I've never been to America (one day), probably not! But even then, I'm still partial to nice thick pastry and firm fillings, be they apple, mince, sausage or whatever else, not a fan of puff pastry or runny fillings at all to be honest.

Mmm, pie... I want a pie now...

I prefer the thicker pie fillings as well, particularly when it comes to pecan pies.

 daedalus wrote:

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:


If you think that's bad, I'd advise you not to read this guardian article on the same subject - your blood pressure will skyrocket!

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/sep/16/plates-slates-backlash-gimmicky-serving-dishes

I don't know. I generally agree with KK on this, but the barbed wire one kind of appeals to me.

If I want a barbed wire plate, I'll defect to North Korea


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 Paradigm wrote:

 Ensis Ferrae wrote:

 Paradigm wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, a pie ain't a pie unless it you can pick it up and not have the innards fall out.

Methinks you haven't had a proper American Granny made Apple pie, or Cherry Pie, or the like.... A GOOD apple pie means when you serve it, you cut the pieces, and you gotta be lightning quick to the plate with the slice because them innards is gonna be outards pretty quick.

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Well, since I've never been to America (one day), probably not! But even then, I'm still partial to nice thick pastry and firm fillings, be they apple, mince, sausage or whatever else, not a fan of puff pastry or runny fillings at all to be honest.

Mmm, pie... I want a pie now...

Shame on you for not mentioning pork pies


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 Easy E wrote:
I prefer the slabs of rock they use around here. Typically slate or shale.

Then, they deconstruct the food into its components and you have to do any assembly yourself.

Service!

Our ancestors stopped eating from rock plates 10,000 years ago

Get with the times

Where the hell are you dining, the 11th century AD?

 Psienesis wrote:
Where the hell are you dining, the 11th century AD?

It's a current trend in upper class restaraunts. Some of them. It used to be slate, now wood is more often used.

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
Where the hell are you dining, the 11th century AD?

It's a current trend in upper class restaraunts. Some of them. It used to be slate, now wood is more often used.

And flat caps apparently. Chef must be drunk or high. And you all thought that dusting was sugar



Bread in a flatcap? NOT ON!!!

 zedmeister wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
Where the hell are you dining, the 11th century AD?

It's a current trend in upper class restaraunts. Some of them. It used to be slate, now wood is more often used.

And flat caps apparently. Chef must be drunk or high. And you all thought that dusting was sugar



Bread in a flatcap? NOT ON!!!

That's something you wear at whippet racing in a Yorkshire town! You don't put it on your bloody dining table

Is this one of those things that people in the 2030s will look back upon and ask, "What in the hell where we thinking"?

It's ambiance, and kind of overused and dumb. But that's what a lot of places do, they latch onto the current decorative trends and try to stay with it since that helps with presentation and keeping it interesting rather than having the same old stale stuff. Some places don't quite get how it works.

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Is this one of those things that people in the 2030s will look back upon and ask, "What in the hell where we thinking"?

Forget 2030 - I'm saying it now!

 zedmeister wrote:

 Sigvatr wrote:

 Psienesis wrote:
Where the hell are you dining, the 11th century AD?

It's a current trend in upper class restaraunts. Some of them. It used to be slate, now wood is more often used.

And flat caps apparently. Chef must be drunk or high. And you all thought that dusting was sugar



Bread in a flatcap? NOT ON!!!

Thanks for the pic. Thats completely not what I was thinking of. That sucks eggs.

 Do_I_Not_Like_That wrote:

 TheCustomLime wrote:
Is this one of those things that people in the 2030s will look back upon and ask, "What in the hell where we thinking"?

Forget 2030 - I'm saying it now!

Agreed. And apparently we're not the only ones - google the we want plates twitter feed!

Basket of chicken anyone? Chef and resteraunt owner definitely drunk.



Not very hygienic or easy to wash...

No, but it is kinda cute lol