i was talking quality, like wether you use pre cooked bacon or thick sliced from the butcher.

frozen store bought mass produced meat balls or freshly made meat balls.

store bought tomatoes or vine ripened.

even a large part of the cooking itself is presentation, cross marks on a pork chop, egg wash on a pie, ect.

This post was edited by Ylem122 on Nov 22 2013 12:08am

Let's summarize, shall we?

The topic is presentation.

You come in with two pretty outlandish statements and introduce your own term, experience.

You try to deflect criticsm by belatedly defining experience in a way that is nonsensical in the context of this topic.

Your answer to this being pointed out to you is to start talking about quality.

Wtf Ylem.

WTF Asshlquisole, cant you read?

This post was edited by Ylem122 on Nov 22 2013 01:22am

for the most part, i dont care how it looks - only the taste. usually thats because by the time i get home from work/running/errands/etc i dont end up eating until ~ 7 pm and im starving.

if i went out to eat at a nice restaurant, i would want good presentation.

This post was edited by cialda on Nov 22 2013 07:34am

that all affects the experience on the whole. which is why its usually broken into presentation and food, not experience and food. the experience includes everything.

not if your a good cook.

it dosnt take an rocket scientist to know a puzzle is not completed when 1/5 of its pieces are missing, but i guess it takes more then the average d2jsp poster.

This post was edited by Ylem122 on Nov 22 2013 10:34am

how well you cook doesnt change the fact that by definition the word 'experience' includes the WHOLE experience. food + presentation + atmosphere = experience. its pretty simple.

Very well said.

Yes, yes it does. Also depends on the food. Soup is hard I mean couple chives on top.

But u see and smell the food first. Both are very important.

U can actually do a lot of work for presentation for a soup... chips, milk/whathever foam, green oil, vegetable garnish... its a whole world out there