Graze tables - really???

[LEMtheoriginal]

They look like something from that progtam that used to shame people for unhealthy diets and when theyve been dipped into are going to look a bloody mess. Why?.

All that cross contamination 🤢

I’ve seen quite a lot of these.

The photos JBaez has posted are cold buffets artistically presented, whatever they are being called, with the majority of items plated. The different levels are classic buffet presentation and make it easier to reach things.

Madre dios! All I can think of is the Spanish film the platform (El Hoyo) which - if you've seen the movie - is enough to put you right off!
Synopsis: it's a brilliant movie on Netflix - a platform filled with food descends a tower with unknown levels (until the end): those on the upper levels get fed well and are gluttons, those on the lower levels starve as they exist on the leftovers. It gets nastier the lower you go.
Each prisoner stays at their level for one month then goes to another, not knowing what awaits them...so shared distribution never pans out.

These types of things are my idea of hell. I don't like my foods touching each other. Every food item has to be separated with at least 2cm in between. I can't eat food that touches other food. 😂

No, all of them look grim, its not just the beige one, the ones in boxes do too. All that rummaging about, all the flavours infecting each other. Even if we are doing a picky tea at home we put everything in separate dishes. I would be very disappointed if someone bought me one of these as a gift.

As far as I'm concerned with covid19 buffets, grazing tables and similar are Ll a total no go.

Not that keen on them pre covid - people don't wash beforehand, pick stuff up and then replace it, cough & sneeze Ll over the place - they're basically a breeding place for germs.

A buffet without the serving dishes and utensils, plates and cutlery. No.

I went to one with my friend and it was beautiful!

So nice, we created one for her 50th.

Its all in the presentation and what you have laid out

Mmmm, fruit, cheese, meat, pate all bundled together on the same surface with dips for people to mix up. I'd love that as a vegetarian, lord knows how people with allergies would find it.
Call me old fashioned but I've never found it difficult to present an attractive cold table whilst avoiding cross contamination of foods.

WeWantPlates.

I thought a “Graze Table” was just a posh phrase for a buffet.
Didn’t realise they don’t use plates or trays!

Don’t much fancy the idea of that!

Of course you have plates. We did!

Plates to eat off but you also need serving plates for each item.

I think they look good, I'm tempted to do a small version of my own just for us living here.

I do not understand these at all. Even freshly laid out they look grim. All those people’s hands rummaging about. It’s double dipping from the first minute! Gross.

Of course you have plates. We did!

You may have done but all the adverts I've seen show food types mixed on single surface trays or the more trendy sounding "banana leaves" or some such.

@lceniWarrior

I remember watching my nephews stick sausages into a running chocolate fountain at a buffet! Imagine if I hadn't seen!

Oh imagine. Small children eating sausages in chocolate...where will it end?

What do you suppose will happen to them?🙄🙄

My 5 year old would think I've gone absolutely nuts I started spreading the birthday food on a table to follow the "graze" trend.

We should trust kids judgments on things like that...
(but my kids don't even agree to eat a yogurt if the plate of the main is still on the table, so maybe they're fussy?)

'Oh imagine. Small children eating sausages in chocolate...where will it end?

What do you suppose will happen to them?🙄🙄

I think she was more concerned about the sausagey chocolate than the kids eating chocolate sausages!

I would want to eat from a chocolate fountain that was tinged with sausage.

*I wouldn't 😂

Looks like something from the last days of Rome

Sausage tinged chocolate, mmmmmmmm

@lceniWarrior

I remember watching my nephews stick sausages into a running chocolate fountain at a buffet! Imagine if I hadn't seen!

Hahaha what a bunch of lads.

Looks like some sort of baby led weaning nightmare. Imagine being the dog lurking under that table though. That would be good.

It's a bit manky.