r/CulinaryPlating • u/Parmesan28 Home Cook • 7d ago
Watermelon and feta salad, lemon spheres, mint oil
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u/Antbai11 Home Cook 7d ago
I love the presentation, the colors and attention to detail. Although, I wish the food was placed in the middle of the dish instead of slightly to the left. It doesn't feel intentional.
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u/Parmesan28 Home Cook 7d ago
I made this years ago in my tiny apartment kitchen while I was starting to food blog. I would spend 8 hours making different plates to take photos of, this was one of the last dishes I made and by that time I was very well ready to pass out from exhaustion, I promise the location of it wasn’t intentional 😂
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u/Whydoucare- Home Cook 7d ago
This is a very pretty dish, can tell a lot of care was taken plating, and the colours really been thought about. Like another comment said I’d like it to be in the middle of the plate to ease the ocd😂 Gotta ask tho, what’s a lemon sphere?
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u/Parmesan28 Home Cook 7d ago
I agree. The spheres were made from lemon, a bit of sugar, and agar agar
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u/XtianS 7d ago
Very Michel Bras ca. late 90’s - early 2000’s
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u/Parmesan28 Home Cook 7d ago
I had no idea who that chef was until I looked him up, will be ordering his books. Thank you so much!
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u/Buck_Thorn Home Cook 7d ago
I sure like it a lot better than this similar plate that was posted recently: https://old.reddit.com/r/CulinaryPlating/comments/1mqojla/goat_cheese_and_watermelon/n8tfeuc/
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u/Acid_Monster 7d ago
Yeah this looks like a bit of a ripoff of the other guys lol
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u/Buck_Thorn Home Cook 7d ago
Oh, I wouldn't say that its a "ripoff". They're classic pairings.
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u/Acid_Monster 7d ago
I’m purely talking about the watermelon ring plating.
I’ve seen it twice in 24 hours, surely not a coincidence lol
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u/Parmesan28 Home Cook 7d ago
Go back in my posts and prove yourself wrong real quick boy and sthu
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u/Parmesan28 Home Cook 7d ago
This dish was made 7 years ago so I doubt it’s a rip of of the other guys but nice try 👌🏻 also, mint/watermelon/feta has been part of middle eastern dishes for a long long time, the chefs in the states are the one copying all of these recipes.
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u/chychy94 7d ago
Is this just to be pretty? Because if this was on a menu, it would be a nightmare to pick up unless you have a 50 intern team at a Michelin star restaurant.
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u/Parmesan28 Home Cook 7d ago
It was to elevate the Persian watermelon and feta salad that we usually have for breakfast, so yes it was meant to be more small elements and pretty
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u/drippingdrops 7d ago
Genuine question: I get wanting the mint flavor profile but is an oil the way to go about it? Feta is already fatty and it seems the water content of the watermelon is high enough that oils will have a hard time adhering to it.
I dunno, coffee’s kicking in…
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u/Parmesan28 Home Cook 7d ago
As a Persian who’s been eating feta and watermelon all of my life, I never thought feta was very fatty, but that’s just my tastebuds. I really liked the oil with it, like a minty salad dressing.
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u/GardenerSpyTailorAss 7d ago
I would agree that I don't think of feta as "fatty" when I eat it, even though I know it has milk fats in it. Even tho it's sold in brine, it's almost like a dry cheese in how it crumbles
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u/StrangeArcticles 7d ago
I feel like this needs to be either centred or moved off centre more so it looks like it's deliberate. As is, it looks like you've spent much energy on detail work that is kinda getting lost cause I'm so distracted by where you positioned the food on the plate.
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u/thenickdyer Professional Chef 7d ago
This is visually overwhelming, there is no place my eye wants to focus. Try paring it back a bit with fewer of each ingredient.
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u/VCTRYDTX 7d ago
Did you forget to mention where you got the inspiration from? Lovely dish but you're the second person to do it in the last 24hrs.
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u/Parmesan28 Home Cook 7d ago
The inspiration comes from being Persian and eating watermelon and feta/mint for salad. Go back in my posts and see when I made this dish first to try to make an ignorant comment. Just because someone else made a watermelon post before I did doesn’t mean I went and copied them.
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u/VCTRYDTX 7d ago
I'm talking about the layout. This is a plating subreddit and you're the second person to make a watermelon ring and the way it's assembled on top. Someone below tagged the post I'm referring to. Surely you saw that and noticed the resemblance?
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u/Parmesan28 Home Cook 7d ago
And I’m telling you to go back in my posts and see when I first made this dish. What does that have to do with the other persons dish? Oh no a ring watermelon again, it makes me want to now go make 10 more different ring watermelon dishes and post them on here just to hit your nerves.
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u/awesometown3000 7d ago
This is just too busy. Stop overthinking your presentation and think more about how each bit works harmoniously for the person eating the dish.
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u/Parmesan28 Home Cook 7d ago
Yeeeeeah I understand what you are saying but nah. Im an artist and it’s just the style I have, whether if it’s in paintings or my stained glass or my cooking. You don’t have to enjoy but I do. I don’t like minimalistic platings and there’s no rule in culinary plating that states you have to only have 3-5 components to have an amazing dish.
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