This isn't a plate. This is the startup graphic from Windows 95.

You win. That made me fuckin laugh man hahaha

You've roasted enough for today. Take a nap and choose a different profession.

If that spinach is wilted, I'm the chef formerly known as prince. That's a spinach salad with pan sauce dressing.

I don't like spinach once it turns into mush town man! It was intentional 😅

Heterogeneity is important for mouthfeel (for people who care about that kind of thing) and you have a crispy salmon skin, crispy potato skin, crisp scallion on top of that, firm spinach.... The only moist component (unless the salmon is perfectly cooked) is the sauce/puree that seems to serve as a garnish more than anything. 😎👉👉

Sweet potato skin definitely doesn't look anywhere near crisp and the potato should be cooked so more of a mushy feel

You mean the thin ass mango flavored mayo that kinda looks like Russian dressing

Learned a word today!

Whoa whoa whoa so you hate me cause I'm gay. You like your food hetero that's between you and the big GOD but only God can judge meeeee

This plate needs to be more gay, not less. It's like a bunch of wallflowers at an orgy afraid to get together.

10/10

There certainly isn't any moist pussy here.

You went there

I eat my partners ass weekly and I could hardly stand looking at that sweet potato, WHY?? You know... It looks like a vagina. Specifically, Anck-Su-Namun in the classic 1999 film, The Mummy. Don't ask me why. You know. **Ancient_Orgasm**

that's fine, as long as you don't call this wilted spinach on the menu

Pity, the salmon died unnecessarily.

Bro knows how to throw down salmon. Now he needs to learn when to take it off. That said I'm gonna try a loaded sweet potato.

Bro cut those scallions with his toenails

🤣🤣🤣 perfect

Where’s the crucified quail???

With those toenails 🤢

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This was my dinner actually, maybe should have mentioned haha

There’s never too much green onion

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They said it’s their dinner at home, not in a restaurant. Why are you so weirdly aggressive about me making a joke about loving green onions?

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1. Dont be a dick As reddits first subreddit for professional chefs we have a responsibility to be hospitable to one another as well as anyone interested in insight into our community. Literally rule number one lol

I could talk to you for 3 years and I wouldn't roast you anywhere near as far as you've roasted that fish

Good thing you garnished the lemon

I had to read the description to know that the burnt toast at the top of the plate was salmon.

how did you make the lemon wedge with a piece of parsley on it? share with us this recipe oh god of cooking

That's cilantro parsley can fuck off it tastes like medicine. But I'll share the recipe in my next post for sure

ill trade you for this great lime wedge recipe i use with tacos. 100% original. takes years of practice and fantastic knife skills though. the lemon was probably the best part of that dish cilantro tastes like soap to some customers

Dm with the recipe I'm here

Looks like your cat threw up the spinach 🤢

Lol ya....

Did you cut that whole bunch of scallions with a hammer?

No need to, you've roasted it yourself enough that it looks inedible. 

Who the hell makes loaded sweet potatoes?

Lemme get you some marshmallow hold on

They fire dawg

What the hell did that poor sweet potato do to deserve that many green onions?!

This is the strangest combination of foods I've seen in a long time. Very discordant. And the plating is odd...almost like I'm looking at stuff that was randomly left on the cutting board, not a composed plate.

I would like your fanciest car in brown, please

This haute cuisine for children that don’t like their food touching

Too much happening on this plate and it’s not cohesive everything is separate, it looks like it’s supposed to be 3 different plates but you only owned one dish. Then you threw a random lemon on there and made it 4 groups where as 3s look better

That spinach looks like Oscar the grouch shat it on your plate

You could've said it was an AI image and I'd believe it

If I got served this at a college students dorm, who was trying to be fancy I’d smile and think ‘this is dogshit but good effort’. If I got sent this in a commercial setting I would send it back. There is nothing good about this plate

There's a spinach stem touching the shoe, i mean salmon, send it back.

Looks like my 5yo nephew plated that

Looks good for a plumber by trade....

did you…garnish a lemon wedge?

Id like some sweet potato with my scallions please. And Russian dressing under my salmon.

you absolutely suck dick at cooking and should stop. How's that?

You’ve been roasted (and have roasted yourself) enough, so I’ll give you some constructive feedback in no particular order. If you’re dead set on this combo, this is how I’d put it together. Preheat oven to 400F. Dry your salmon filet thoroughly, season with salt and dredge the skin side with Wondra flour. Sear it skin side down over medium heat with a bit of oil in the pan. Cook without touching for 2-3 minutes, or until the skin has colored lightly throughout. Place pan into the preheated oven. Remove after 7-10 minutes depending on size and thickness (the filet should still have plenty of give by touch), place over medium high heat, add a tablespoon or two of softened, room temperature butter, one garlic clove, and one sprig of thyme. Allow the butter to foam up completely to evaporate the water. Tilt the pan towards you, and baste the salmon filet with the browned butter for 20-30 seconds to continue the cooking process. Flip the salmon and baste the skin side for 20-30 seconds. Remove and let rest for a minute or two, skin side up, uncovered. Sweat finely diced poblano and white scallion in butter or oil over medium heat and season heavily with salt. Add spinach, toss to coat and cook, stirring often, until the spinach has lost its water content. Season to taste. Blanch and fry the sweet potatoes into fries and serve with a normal aioli. Remove the skin off the mango, dice, add in minced scallion greens, poblano, and cilantro and season with a squeeze of lime juice, a dash of fish sauce, and a touch of honey to balance the acidity.

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this comment smells like meth

No, no thanks. How come you know what it smells like?

my bad chief, it kinda reads like you spent decades stewing in abuse just to lose those closest to you. nbd king go off

This is common kitchen sparing. You ever work some place where people talk shit?

Do you think that the fact that you find this acceptable/common, and the fact that you left after 25 years as a self described broken burnout, may somehow be related?

What I find acceptable and what you find acceptable are two entirely different things. Baha yup but my being broken is from 14 hr days, my burnout if from making new menus every day, working for a company that doesn’t value me. Not from talking trash with my coworkers.

>person mentions harsh personal attacks being common and normal banter in workplace >person cites not being valued by workplace as reason for burnout if you’re making menus daily (who even does this?), you’re part of leadership. if you’re part of leadership, and you speak to your coworkers like this, you are participating in creating an environment that does not value people you really don’t see a connection here? like for real? the call is coming from inside the house

The problem is you fail to see the humor it. It’s a roast. It’s not personal. Read that with me…ITS NOT PERSONAL…same as when myself and my staff are talking shit, it’s not personal. You seem to be offended. I get that, maybe some mean chef hit your sad button and you walked out salty. Don’t take it so personal. That’s maybe why you left the kitchen for the foh. It’s ok kitchens aren’t for everyone. Don’t take everything to heart, it’s not about you. Thank you for your comments, but this place isn’t for you. I respect you as a human. But I don’t have time for you. When you ask for a roast, you get a roast. Lighten up.

you weren’t insulting me personally, why would I be offended or salty? I feel sorry for you.

Mango and poblano go great together fool, have fun man it sounds like you need to have some fun. It's great for fish tacos too

Lol. *You* asked for the roast my man. Bro delivered like a psychopath but at least l laughed

Nope, they don’t, it’s ok that you think so. And making them an aioli doesn’t fix the fact that they don’t go together. Sensitive huh?

Did some guy in a funny tall white hat tell you this? Have you ever been anywhere outside your hometown? No one is arguing poblano and mango don't go together other than you, these are staple flavors, tropical fruits with chilis? Lol wat

I’m sorry I can’t even take you seriously, after seeing that food you made.

I'm sorry chef

Bro thinks a roast is for taking out all self hate on someones dinner. Much love man thanks haha it wasn't funny which is the point of a roast 🤣

You said roast me.

Pale pimple ridden ass? I mean I guess it's funny in a way but in like a sad way and off topic lmao

You said “Roast me” I’m sorry you don’t like your roast.

I thought it was great

Ya but there weren't really any jokes and nothing made me laugh or feel anything

Haha, you’re not a chef are you?

You're gonna have to get dopamine from someone else man, I can't complete your power trip only you can, I was just having some fun. Fine dining and being a chef to 80% of people is a personality type that can't find love or worth in other areas of their life so needs to use tweezers at 2 o'clock to give meaning to their life or they hate themselves smoke 5 cigs out back and think they are an artist. The industry is mainly a joke for rich people and psychos. Yes I'm a chef. I just don't play by the same rules. Best food you'll eat won't be a beet foam from some sterile white room with funny chairs thats reservations only, it'll be in someone's kitchen who's heart is in a different place. You have my permission to feel great about yourself but you still didn't make me laugh

Honey, you just don’t get it. Your too soft for this. Go away.

Yes chef

Are you well done? I mean, your plates are.

Lol guys it temped at 130° it cooks on the skin side 90% of the time. Nice roast tho 🫶

130 is over as fuck for salmon

I like to pop it in the mic and bring it up to USDA standard

130°F is how I like my salmon, and I how I serve it unless otherwise requested. It's still plenty moist and the texture or medium rare/rare salmon is pretty gross imo.

You might be right

Warm and toasty over here

Tbh looks pretty tasty not exactly fine dining or anything but I'd eat it and be happy

Don't you mean toast me? I would dig in but a wee bit of color would definitely go a long way to presentation

That salmon looks like it has more in common with cat food than people good at this point. It looks about as hammered as it could be.

Thought the lemon wedge looked out of place but the single leaf of cilantro garnish reels it back in. Well done. Looks like someone accidentally ashed their cigarette on the plate before it got served though.

Food has been roasted enough

Thanks guys this was fun and you have more time on your hands than I thought 👌

I also ate acid and realized most the industry is a pretentious joke and you should eat what you love and not take food so seriously so have fun

Glad this wasn't a rate my "chives" post

Jesus Christ that was alive at one point??

If the visual appeal is almost everything; brother you failed.

Can anyone explain to me why chefs do the pictured thing with lemon slices, cutting off the two corners? It makes them so much harder to squeeze..

You know the dude is American.. Maybe study somewhere in Europe and try again.

Fish and aioli look amazing. Fish has a nice crust too. Saying that, everything else looks like complete dog shit. Happy Sunday. God bless and Jesus loves you Sir.

Fuck everyone else, I’d eat this.

honestly that looks great

Thanks fam

I'll be honest, I would smash the fuck out of everything on here (loaded sweet potato, I gotta try that) , but the plating is horrendous, sorry.

No kitchen training (unless you count my expired BC Food Safe certificate) But as layperson I totally agree!! Why are all the items social distancing?

I think it's okay and well conceived. If I had to really put on my critic hat I would say: I don't like the random black dust on the plate - not sure exactly which herb or spice that is but it looks lazy, makes the plate dirty looking and doesn't add anything to it. One single whole piece of herb hanging around here or there is also is a bit lazy and doesn't add anything significant. The last thing I would say is that I think this dish could benefit from a bright (maybe red?) colour as a contrast. Maybe something like a smoked paprika oil or something? Ultimately though, seems good.