To think that serving food with a "froth" sauce...

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Just makes it look like someone has gobbed on your dinner! I'm watching Masterchef The Professionals and someone has done this. It looks FOUL!

I wish that the chef in the only decent restaurant round here would accept that squirting Balsamic Reduction on fucking EVERYTHING is sooooooo last decade.

It looks like marmite mixed with hot water and doesnt taste anywhere near as nice. I have has on a roast beef dinner ffs!

And YY (or is that NN?!) to food in towers! I am not Greg Wallace, I cannot fit a ladles worth of food into my mouth in one go, and I like to see what I am eating thanks!

I love this chat about gob and flob and phlegm and skid marks - it's making me laugh so much. Mayonnaise is fine by me....

Stuff served with 'jus' annoys me. It's flippin gravy!

I really dislike froth and smears on my meal, in my experience froth doesn't taste of much and it just looks a bit rubbish and pathetic.

It reminds me of bath water scum. Yuk.

I think it's time chefs move onto the next fad whatever that may be.

YANBU, I am not a fan of foam or smears (smears for god's sake, even the word makes you think of dirty pants) or, recent discovery in a fancy new place that's apparently aiming for a Michelin star, bloody powder. Looks like the plate has been dressed with baby formula (or coke, insert Nigella joke here).

As an aside, does cuckoo spit not exist anymore or is it only ever at 8 year olds eye level?

Foam is disgusting.

Sniggering aloud at Riffy's DH and the nosebleed remark.

Yes Bogey its still around. I get covered in it in the summer walking out with the ponies. Icky stuff!

Weird!

When I read that it is still around I went "Aah, thats nice!" and smiled! I have no idea why the thought that cuckoo spit is still about makes me happy, but it does!

I dislike the gobby looking foam but not half as much as I dislike the smears. They look awful! Its so trendy to have smearage at the moment.

Foam, smearage, deconstructed food, towers.... No, no, no and no

Aaarrgghh, you hit the nail on the head there OP, it looks like dangly horse spit!

I don't mind blobs, dots, swirls or smears, they look silly and are often pointless but the bloody foam makes me heave.

Deconstructed food

OMG I hate this! "er,, yeah so basically....I am making a deconstructed apple crrumble.....I just feel that there is sooo much more to it than just a bowl of crumble and custard"

Right. So you are going to serve what exactly? An apple, some flour, sugar, butter and smear of yellow baby poo?

I once heard mention of a deconstructed cheese burger as I was turning over and was too late to see it by the time I turned back. I assume it was a dead cow, a dead calf and a pint of milk!

I think this proves that chefs cook for other chefs and ignore their customers.

Mind you, if they listened to me they would only serve salad, steak and chips. With chocolate pudding for afters.

And as for those stupid bowls with massive rims and a tiny little hollow - what's wrong with normal crockery? Although I suppose the massive rim give the chef more space for skid marks, gobbing and dirt scattering.

YANBU the foam is very offputting. As is the raw meat they always seem to serve on Masterchef.

This makes me cackle!

Anything on a dinner plate that looks like it could have arrived by sphincter or diaphragm is just wrong.

DH had fish and chips with mushy peas in some gastro pub place he thought they had forgotten the peas until i pointed to the smear of green on the side of the plate wtf? snoozybird wet myself at that almost

YADNBU.

No need for foams or smears. Just a good sauce will do. Also, why "deconstruct" a perfectly good thing like a cheescake?

I agree. It looks disgusting. It reminds me of that horrible foam you get on the beach

I have an aversion to my food being served to me in the form of a tower. I always think they're trying to smuggle something in there that I neither like nor have asked for. like my mother thinking I wouldn't notice cabbage hidden underneath two sausages

Most modern cooking, if Masterchef: The Professionals is anything to go by, seems to be a heap of pretentious wankery done by chefs for chefs and no bugger else. I don't mind Tom Kerridge though although that might be because everything is cooked in about a pound of butter.

YANBU. It looks like cuckoo spit.

All the cuckoo spit is in my back yard, btw - mostly on my sage.

I dont eat in frothy type eateries but i am sure once it has reached the brewyers fayre i I can comment but i see it on masterchef and always think it looks like snot so much faff imo