Welcome to the Veeky Forums challenge: Vote Thread: Berries But Not Dessert Edition
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The theme for this month was Berries In A Savory Context
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Dishes are judged on the following criteria, so keep that in mind when voting:
-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.
While you're voting, or not voting, why not suggest a theme for next month? Then people can vote on that, or not.
Entry 1 By Ya Dingus Pane & Cheese Sandwich with a Blueberry
Eli Nguyen
Entry 2 By Anonymous Rosemary Lamb Basil and Strawberry Sandwich
Dylan Campbell
Entry 3 By Toothpick Parmesan Blueberry Risotto with Blackberry Duck
Isaiah Foster
Entry 4 By Corkscrew Raspberry and Yogurt Tortellini in Tomato Sauce
Xavier Wright
Entry 5 By Spice Jar Savory Berry Sandwich with Very Berry Sides
Samuel Thomas
Entry 6 By Clothespin Cherrywood Smoked Ribs with Blueberry Sauce and Blueberry Wine
Lucas Parker
Entry 7 By Anonymous Elderberry Sour Ale
Benjamin Davis
Entry 8 By Mamushka Doll Salmon au Poivre with Blueberry Basil Balsamic Reduction
Thomas Rogers
Entry 9 By Racer X Blackberry Duck Dumplings
James Ross
Entry 10 By shake-kun Gooseberry Chicken Curry
Hudson Sullivan
Entry 11 By Eyepatch Blueberry Steak Pizza
Josiah Barnes
Entry 12 By Anonymous Clam Chowder with Avocado
Asher Nelson
And there you go! Twelve entries, ranging from one week in to about five hours ago. Vote, you wonderful wanks. And also suggest themes and bicker over those. I'm taking a nap, possibly.
Nap away, you glorious bastard. Although you should have recognized that was just me playin'.
And I meant Every word I said When I said that I loved you I meant that I loved you forever
And I'm gonna keep on lovin' you 'Cause it's the only thing I want to do I don't want to sleep, I just want to keep on lovin' you
I don't know what else to do. Plz respond.
Lucas Diaz
Oh shit, don't watch this video, stick with the cigarettes after sex one. WOW. That hair. That schnoz. Oy vey! The hard "r's". Tsk tsk. youtube.com/watch?v=wJzNZ1c5C9c
Are the berry elements supposed to be tomato in the sandwich and cucumber in what appears to be tzatziki? You're thinking too botanically and not culinarily >Presentation: 2.5/5 >Originality: 2/5 >Appeal: 3/5 >Challenge Goals: 1.5/5 >Total: 9/20
Thanks Numbaz for making the collage. Just wanted to expand on this a little and point out that there's cranberry in the thyme butternut squash risotto and blackberries in the chili mustard brussels sprouts
Hey autists! A little explanation of your votes would be nice. Like why you felt some entries only got 4/5 on challenge goals when others got a 5/5.
Jack Wright
I base a perfect 5 for challenge goals on how transformed the ingredients were and if the challenge goal was approached in more than one way. If it's just one element simply included in an otherwise ordinary dish it shouldn't get a full 5 IMO
Luis Diaz
So, you were autistically attached to the word berries in the plural and took points off for people that only used one type of berry. Got it.
Colton Reed
>i cant believe you didnt vote for me. i have parkinsons Get over yourself. You're really not very creative and your plating sucks. You're actually worse than eggplant parm guy
Xavier King
I have to agree with you. I entered this and the last competition and would not even think to question a judge for the simple reason it's their subjective interpretation. It's a benefit if they include their reasoning, certainly not necessary though, and if they do it would be silly to question it.
Cameron Sullivan
Howdy. I'm shake-kun IE parkinson's guy. I didn't post I did jokingly post though, obviously. Please don't take it as anything other than a bit of shits and giggles.
I'm surprised I got beyond the 50% mark and I'm happy that I did. My photo is blurry, I didn't show the process at all, I have no eye for design and therefore my plating is shit, the dish is an already pre-existing thing and not something I invented, the food itself looks altogether horrible and there's no way to judge what I cooked by its taste. I wasn't expecting to get anything higher than 5-8, 2bqhwy, homie, mostly from people who like curries like the guy in the first thread who said he liked rasam. I certainly wouldn't give myself anything beyond that 5-8 range.
I was pleasantly surprised to break above 10. :3
I think actually /is/ eggplant parm argument guy from the first thread and I don't think he even posted any entry. He's just being a tool. Please don't think I'd behave that way.
James Flores
duh, venison with pears and berries
Nicholas Wright
I'm the first scorer. I gave less than 5 if the berries seemed more like an afterthought in the dish rather than proper incorporation
I won't go back and write something about each entry but I will give little explanation for my criteria which may not be consistent with the scoring here. Presentation is based on how well I can understand the dish just by looking at it. Artistry matters but more than that the plating should be able to communicate what the dish is. Originality is almost wholly based on whether I would've been able to think of the dish. Appeal is self-explanatory. Challenge goals is how well the ingredient is incorporated into the dish and also how much of a star it is. So for example a berry reduction may be very well incorporated but it loses some points for being a sidekick in the dish.
Connor Carter
A q4u, thread:
In the years the challenge has been a thing, has chili ever been the theme? I'm sure it must have been, right? If not, can we make it the next theme? I love seeing variants of chili. I have three of my own I churn out from time to time.
I'm not sure how the challenge works with numbaz in charge, if winner picks the theme or what, so if this is out of line, please accept my apologies.
Gabriel Walker
Nah brah, no apologies needed. Anyone and everyone can suggest a theme and/or second/third/so-on a suggested theme. The choice has been given back to you, the people. >crappy Bane voice
Ayden Wright
I suggest penguins as the theme. Everyone loves penguins, those charming little tuxedo-wearing motherfuckers.
Landon Jackson
Then! In the case that chili has been done before or is regarded as too simplistic and unchallenging of a theme, I've anothe: pasta sauce not made from tomato nor dairy.
Jaxon Evans
LEMON THREAD YES
Christopher Barnes
I'm going to interpret this as "black/brown and white foods/tuxedo foods", as that's the closest you're likely to get.
Xavier Thomas
Unless you meant something completely different, in which case: please tell me and the lovely voting public! >canned applause and laughter
Hunter Morales
Soooo sorry shake-kun. I totally thought that was you based on the joking score post. You actually seem like a really cool guy and I take back everything from my previous comment. It was only said in response to thinking that was you. I'm an asshole I hang my head in shame..
Jose Smith
Ohhh, shake-kun and Parkinson's, I just got that. That's pretty good. Good on ya.
Nathaniel Morgan
Bloody hell, repeating >numbaz again. Am I on a delicious blueberry roll? >probably not
Ayden King
>-Presentation: L O N D O N >-Originality: L O N D O N >-Appeal: L O N D O N >-Challenge Goals: L O N D O N >Total: 0/20
AMERIKKKA - American "cuisine" using ONLY white meat, no dark meat or red meat allowed
Vegetarian Summer - feature grilled items other than meat. some sort of homemade summer beverage on the side also encouraged
Peace in the Middle East - combine the cuisine of israel with the cuisine of a predominately muslim country
Zachary Powell
1. dumb and completely inaccurate 2. boring 3. dumb, "moors and christians" sounds better. still lame, oil themed foods.
David Morris
You gotta vote on all the entries nigga.
Asher Lopez
We don't eat pigs, You don't eat pigs, It seems it's been that way forever. So if we don't eat pigs, And you don't eat pigs, Why not, not eat pigs together?
Gabriel Rogers
Because I'm an absolute slut for pork. >pls don't take that out of context
Ryder Cook
please no porking, this is a blue board.
Hunter Anderson
S'okay. Figured you were just being hard on the other for being a dick and not hurling shit at me directly.
Wish I could take credit for it, but someone gave me that nick in an unofficial challenge thread series two years ago and I liked it.
How is this thread not a bigger deal? Has this board really gone to such shit?
Noah Garcia
Since you asked,
I consider the whole idea of having a cooking contest in which the judges cannot taste the food to be pants-on-head retarded.
It just makes no sense at all, and therefore it's very hard to take seriously. Could you imagine an auto race in which people don't actually drive the cars? How about an art museum where all the paintings and sculptures are covered up so you can't see them?
Gavin Long
the thread has been up for only a day and Veeky Forums isn't that fast of a board, i think it's doing just fine
Camden Smith
it's just an excuse to cook and show people your food, dummy, not everything has to be serious business, it's not like there's a cash prize
Ian Hughes
Thanks bby Clearly this board is largely crap, but there are a few brave contributors of OC that sustain us. So you don't look at recipes or food shows because you can't taste it right now, right?
Nicholas Cruz
I see it more as an excuse to cook than as a challenge. I thought it was odd when hearts gave out prizes when she was running the thing, but whatevs.
>auto race without driving cars Of course not, but think of this more like a food porn contest than a cooking competition. Did you know most professional photographs of "ice cream" are actually dyed scoops of mashed potatoes? This is because ice cream would melt under the heat of the lighting. Doesn't stop it from looking like the best damned ice cream ever, though. It's kinda like that.
>art museum where you can't see the paintings Kek. When I first moved to the city I live in now, there used to be an art museum for the visually impaired. I have no idea how that works as I'd never been inside.
There used to be prizes many moons ago.
Ryder Moore
Hey, user asked a question and I answered it. Don't get upset if you don't like the answer.
>So you don't look at recipes or food shows because you can't taste it right now, right?
It all depends on what the motivation is. I like to watch some cooking programs because I can learn technique or get recipe ideas. I don't give a shit about who "wins". I love to watch Iron Chef, but I normally skip the judging entirely. And the silly stuff like chopped is just ridiculous.
Looking at food or getting ideas is all well and good. But the competition part? Pointless. You can share OC and discuss cooking tips without a contest that makes no sense.
Parker Ortiz
Everyone's a lazy fuck. All the entries are towards the end of the cut-off and all the voting as well.
Anthony Ramirez
>But the competition part? Pointless. More OC has been generated through these challenges than would normally be posted here. People like challenges and most are at least somewhat competitive. I'm sure even people who put in very little effort (excluding the joke entries) will be glancing at how their dishes got scored.
Luis Phillips
I would not have made any of my four entries if this contest was not around. It is an OC generator, pure and simple.
James Richardson
I agree with this. This round really got me thinking outside my normal box and forced my lazyass to be creative. So although I have a shit phone and know nothing about photography, I enjoy entering these things and hope they keep going. I like to see what people thought about my production and what other people come up with. Although I'd never have to worry about winning a prize, I damn sure wouldn't accept it if I did.
Tyler Robinson
Maybe do a crockpot/slowcooker themed contest next?
Colton Gonzalez
That'd be like a smoker cooking challenge. Many people don't have a slow cooker. I certainly don't.
Ethan Howard
i think a "low and slow" round would be cool. it gives so many options
Gabriel Davis
Then maybe like said: a low and slow challenge. Low and slow lets you cook a wide variety of food (especially inexpensive cuts of meat) that almost always turns out great.
Pic related is tonight's jimdalk in the crockpot.
Liam Martin
I didn't know jjimdak was an Australian dish.
Robert Hughes
i thought this was a dog in a space suit helmet from the thumbnail
Aaron Hernandez
The contest used to be bigger, but it has gone to shit recently. There used to be a lot more participants with the majority making verticals. Judges used to have explanations for their votes. It started to take a dive last year when newfags kept feeding the trolls and the contest runners caved to the trolling as well. This year, things got switched up with it becoming a monthly thing instead of a weekly competition with an eventual end and prizes. Then, we had a round where the mods fucked things up because >muh rules Now, hardly anyone is participating, and it's pretty obvious that only the contestants are voting and no one else gives a shit anymore. Maybe it can be revived next year if one of the e-celeb tripfags takes over again and turns it back into what it used to be.
Ethan Young
Yeah, it used to be way bigger, but that's just how things go in these new and horrific days of McChicken threads and Jackposting. >implying I'm not an e-celeb
Asher Davis
>But the competition part? Pointless. I agree. And I'm a contributor. Or more to the point: THIS part of the competition (the scoring). I'm just here to force myself to make OC, and to probably make something I wouldn't make normally. I don't give about the scores, I'm just in this thread to read butthurt and laugh.
Thomas Campbell
>e-celeb tripfags BBQKing? Sceak?
Joseph Rodriguez
What are you even talking about? Are you in the NT because why else are you talking like someone fresh from the bottleshop?
No they're pretty cool. See the pic
Wyatt Smith
Your picture was posted upside-down, Auz.
Jackson Long
Tbh the description of my delicacy was absolutely critical to its success during this month's voting. Otherwise it's just a grilled cheese with a blueberry
Caleb Diaz
You puppers are very adorable and also Australian, because as said, your pictures are upside down and I have a very juvenile sense of humour.
Chase Sanchez
Aaaand back on >bump duty. Story of my life. Not literally, obviously.
Daniel Powell
Yeah sorry about that mate. Just noticed my phone arsed out and saved the images upside down.
Thanks, the puppers are pretty chill. The white one is a 15 yo Jack Russel and the black one is a yo minpin.
>duty military?
Carter Morgan
88th Shitposting Division.
Luis Phillips
More like Butt-Bumping Division.
Levi Clark
Numbaz, will there be a suggestion thread for next months challenge?
Chase Ramirez
This is the voting/suggestion thread. If you have a suggestion for the July theme, please put it in so anonymous toolbags can rip it to shreds in the time honoured tradition of this venerable board. >how many times is Captcha going to ask me to type "calle"?
Gavin Lee
Fuck it. Why not?
1. Taste of the Old Country - cook something traditional to your country/state/whateverthefuckyoucallyourself. 2. Summer Style Soup - perhaps some refreshing/soup that is being served cold/cool. Might be interesting to see the variety in other cultures. 3. Supreme Salad Sale - pretty much as the one above, but instead of soup, make a salad that would be refreshing. Can be as simple or as complex as you wish.
>anonymous toolbags can rip it to shreds in the time honored tradition of this venerable board. Come at me!
Henry Morales
How about "food you make at/for your job"? The best you can realistically do when you only have 20 minutes to get ready in the morning and are hungover from staying up drinking all night and posting on Veeky Forums. If you have a means to reheat/cook food at your work you're allowed to incorporate that.
Dominic Campbell
Hey, that's a good one. Just needs a: Your country: Your occupation:
Jace Morris
That's just odd. You're assuming that ppl are like you and don't plan their meals in advance. Also you're assuming that ppl don't work at a place with a serviceable kitchen. I get it. You 're here for ideas, but that's kinda out there in the ether.
If you plan your meals in advance, give us your best pre-planned lunch. If you have a serviceable kitchen at your work, and you actually use it, show us the best thing you've ever made yourself for lunch there.
I think it's interesting to know the best things that people have at their jobs; regardless of the job and how much they're making, food is one of the great equalizers.
Hudson Sullivan
>I think it's interesting to know... I agree. I'm interested to know as well, vaguely.
But it's not Veeky Forums challenge material.
For many reasons, maybe because not everyone has a job, or maybe they don't have a job where the can cook, or maybe they actually work in the industry and have access to any tool that they may need.
The challenge needs to be ingredients, not equipment. However, the "slow cooker" idea could work. It's do-able with an oven or range, slow cooker, immersion circulator, rice cooker, et al.
Zachary Baker
Bump
Cameron Hill
Get out the vote bump.
Isaiah Thomas
It's too hot to slow cook all day. ):
Owen Nelson
They actually are a lot cooler than using the oven/stove.
Jackson Richardson
You can stand to be exposed to 90c/200f water vapour wafting through your kitchen (then the rest of the house soon thereafter) for 3+ hours on an already hot and humid day? Cuz I sure as motherfucking fuck can't.
Michael Martin
>wafting through your kitchen I think I found your problem. Do you have electrical outlets on the outside of your house? Or an extension cord? I do the majority of my summer cooking on my deck, where my grill is. Slow cooker, rice maker, sous vide... It's a game changer.
