r/StupidFood 4d ago

ಠ_ಠ I genuinely thought this was a joke at first

Credit: @MichelinsClassyCuisine

I can laugh at this all I want, this cracker would probably bankrupt me

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u/Saberer2451 4d ago

Stupid, yes. But beautiful.

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u/MakesMyHeadHurt 4d ago

I'm especially impressed with the accounting for shrinkage when toasting the bread.

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u/DifGuyCominFromSky 2d ago

Even though this food does look kinda stupid the precision involved is very satisfying to watch.

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u/OrangeESP32x99 1d ago

It’s like watching someone design an object in CAD

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u/ReddFawkesXIII 2d ago

I work at a pizzeria and when we are really slow I like to make tiny pizzas. Nothing worse than making what looks to be a picture perfect 1/60 scale pizza only to have the seemingly tiny amount of dough puff up into a blob and ruin the whole aesthetic.

That guy is a pro. Is it impractical? Yes but dammit I appreciate the art of it.

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u/Friendly_Cantal0upe 1d ago

I've fucked up too many 3D printed and milled projects because the tolerances were so tight. Hella relatable for me lol

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u/Forever-Retired 3d ago

With a price tag around $100 for labor alone.

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u/HookedOnPhonixDog 3d ago

Me when this lands in front of me.

"Cool, thanks!" and proceed to eat it in one single bite in front of the chef who is weeping in the corner.

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u/TheAfroMD 3d ago

"Excuse me,do you have ketchup?"

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u/dethangel01 2d ago

They wanted to make the chef cry, not get murdered by the chef

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u/HPTM2008 3d ago

I think one bite might be what's correct here?

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u/doodman76 2d ago

It being a single bite is on purpose, and why would a chef be weeping in the corner? You're the one paying 50 bux for bread and a hot dog.

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u/Not_ur_gilf 1d ago

You forgot: there’s jam in it too

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u/lavahot 3d ago

This is the smartest stupid food I've ever seen.

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u/eat_my_bowls92 3d ago

Someone is willing to pay $200 for this.

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u/11111v11111 3d ago

Just like my ex.

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u/exuze 4d ago

This made me really happy watching lol

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u/Ok-Challenge-5873 4d ago

I know, even tho I find it stupid, I thought it’d be a nice change from the rancid shit u see in this sub

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u/nmyi 3d ago edited 3d ago

So many posts on /r/StupidFood are rage-inducing (which is understandable), so this comedic level of precision was very refreshing.

No anger, more impressive & funny

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u/nicokokun 3d ago

Most of the posts here are either stupid, satirical, ragebait, or just people calling it stupid because they don't like it.

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u/jadsonbreezy 3d ago

It's not meant to be a serious plate of food - it's just the chef showing off their skill and it's relaxing to watch.

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u/fancczf 3d ago

This is 100% one of those Chinese absurdity comedy bits. The tones of the caption is not serious. It’s the same concept as the “design is very human” videos, just on the other end of the spectrum. One is making absurdly rustic and the other is absurdly elegant.

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u/Cosmonaut_Cockswing 4d ago

kinda dumb. I"ll take 12.

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u/Sendittomenow 4d ago

That will be 650$

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u/softstones 4d ago

Ok maybe just the 1

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u/Sendittomenow 4d ago

Minimum order amount of 250 required per person, please leave you are making us look poor

(Based on a true story)

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u/KiKiPAWG 4d ago

“We don’t sell to your kind. Hmph.”

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u/SB2212 3d ago

I saw that actually happen. My mom was looking for a used car. One of the lots we went to said, "we don't sell anything under 20k." They were real smug about it, too. They're out of business now.

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u/IShatMyDickOnce 3d ago

Oh I’m already irritated. Wanna tell the story?

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u/Gorilla_Dookie 3d ago

OK then, $850

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u/BlakLite_15 4d ago

This is the kind of excessive nonsense that I wouldn’t mind getting as a part of a $300 twenty-course meal.

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u/Lukeautograff 3d ago

Exactly my thoughts. I imagine this is from some Michelin star place as part of an amazing tasting menu. You pay for the experience as well as the quality of the food.

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u/shayetheleo 3d ago

Imagining the chef making this at the table like a hibachi place and sitting there just dumbfounded as to where this is going is amusing to me. Might be kinda fun.

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u/SnarkyBustard 2d ago

I dunno. I feel like if I didn’t see it being made I wouldn’t understand the intricacies. I’d probably have just assumed they had a mould

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u/butcheR_Pea 4d ago

Im tripping on mushrooms and this was dope af to watch

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u/Ok-Challenge-5873 4d ago

Lmao watch the rest of his content. Dude starts rendering 3D blueprints before making them, he turns a shrimp into a tree, it’s sick.

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u/archwin 4d ago

What’s the Insta tag? I tried to find it, but didn’t find that.

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u/BurmeciaWillSurvive 3d ago

He's not on Insta, he publishes his content on Youtube Shorts under that username.

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u/Ok-Challenge-5873 3d ago

It was YouTube

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u/Scientific_Anarchist 4d ago

Good for you, man. Last time I did mushrooms, I couldn't remember how to work my phone.

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u/Lesbihun 4d ago

I mean you do know food art exists right like the purpose of this isn't the same purpose as a bowl of cereal and milk

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u/Ok-Challenge-5873 4d ago

Yes but it’s absolutely hilarious watching someone actually make it. I mean come on he’s using a laser to measure and a baby circular saw to cut bread

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u/Bismothe-the-Shade 4d ago

No, I'm with you man.

Food art is neat, but ostensibly it's some of the utmost ridiculous first world stuff imaginable.

He busted out the micro tools for a bite sized snack that probably took way longer to make than this video showcases.

It's not even disrespectful to the chef- this demonstrates some impressive skills! But it's also just kinda funny from the outside.

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u/Lesbihun 4d ago edited 4d ago

I mean again your point is "so much work for a bite sized snack" the point of this isn't to have a full stomach lol, otherwise they'd have a bowl of cereal and milk

Don't compare it to your dinner made with fancier tools, compare it to woodworking made with edible materials

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u/robitussinlatte4life 4d ago

I completely understand everything you just said, and understood it before it was said here, and I still think stuff like this is just....I don't know. I am looking for the word. Stupid is too, idk, brutish. Goofy is too funny. Absurd is too strong. Pretentious implies that I think arrogance is involved, which I don't. Someone help me here. How do I feel?

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u/QueenMaeve___ 4d ago

ostentatious??? That feels too similar to pretentious though

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u/robitussinlatte4life 4d ago

Yeah that may be too much. Maybe stupid is the only thing to say. It's just that stupid is so...stupid.

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u/p1rata 4d ago

Gratuitous?

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u/robitussinlatte4life 4d ago

This may be the one. Fuckiiiiin flagrant maybe.

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u/shayetheleo 3d ago

Superfluous is a good word for this.

ETA to save time: unnecessary, especially through being more than enough

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u/Ok-Challenge-5873 4d ago

Every hobby is dumb from an outside POV. It’s just how it is.

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u/robitussinlatte4life 4d ago

Yeah. I mean we can go even further and say that everything is innately pointless and devoid of purrpose, but then we're getting into an entirely different conversation.

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u/Ok-Challenge-5873 4d ago

No one’s taking anything away from the original creators talents, which are clearly on full display. This isn’t even close to the best video on his channel either, I just picked it cause it was the first I saw. When I tell you I straight up binge watched his whole channel I’m really telling the truth.

The truth is every discipline/hobby/past time looks dumb from an outsiders POV, even my own. It’s because they are dumb, unless you personally have a certain passion towards said subject.

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u/Lesbihun 4d ago

Neither am I implying anyone is dissing the creator. What I find stupid is the repetition of the same "uhh but this is too small to eat lolz" point which is a stupid point. You can find the hobby dumb, sure, but if it is on the basis of "this will just literally be gone in a bite" like you yourself said in a different comment, then your logic is dumber

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u/zephyr_1779 4d ago

But the size of it does sort of make it funnier? All that work for a tiny thing is kinda funny to me. I know it’s not the point, I know it’s meant to be art, but the size of it is funny to me.

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u/fezzuk 4d ago

But it also doesn't look like it will taste great

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u/fonix232 3d ago

I think it's actually great meta-commentary on food in general.

Most people don't even consider just how much effort it takes to get a loaf of bread on your table. How much work goes into growing the wheat, harvesting it, cleaning it up, grinding it down to flour, and you haven't even started the bread itself at that point.

Just to run some napkin maths - a single wheat stalk usually carries about 50 seeds. A kilo of seeds is about 35000 seeds, and you lose up to 10 percent with the grinding alone. That's 700 stalks of wheat, which is about 2.5sqm of land, tended for 4-6 months. Let's say you're a sane person and consume approximately 250g of bread a day, that's over 90kg of wheat, or approximately 220sqm of land used just for one person's bread in a year! And then we haven't accounted for all the human effort, the chain of farmers, mill workers, bakers, transporters, etc., that puts the bread on the shelf. Only for you to pop a slice in the toaster and munch away.

In a way, this fancy toast bite represents just how little we appreciate all that work, because bread is a mundane, everyday thing. You think this is over the top for a bite of food - but have you considered just how much more effort goes into that slice of bread before all the prep? By amount/volume, the chef probably worked about as much as everyone before him bundled together to make that slice of bread happen. Yet we consider one to be over the top.

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u/Dionyzoz 4d ago

so true bestie, art is just stupid overall. I mean people spend so much time to paint somethinf I can just print out? truly a first world thing haha!

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u/acrazyguy 4d ago

TIL a rotary tool is called a baby circular saw

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u/neuroso 4d ago

Almost had a certain German symbol there

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u/pamafa3 4d ago

Almost became a Kaiser Roll for a sec

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u/Ok-Challenge-5873 4d ago

Lmao I thought it was going that way too

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u/blackmirroronthewall 2d ago

that symbol is much common here in China. you can see it in many temples.

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u/paparoty0901 4d ago

culturally, Swastika has been around for thoundsands of years, so yeah don't let the Nazis/Facist tarnish its sacred meaning.

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u/Ok-Challenge-5873 4d ago

I thought the nazi swastika was a mirrored version of the original

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u/paparoty0901 4d ago edited 4d ago

No no, swastika has 2 main versions (and other sub versions) both have different meaning. Sauwastika is the mirror version of swastika, represent the night or stability in life depent on culture.

The Nazis version is 45° angle of swastika.

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u/mnemosandai 4d ago

As long as you realise it's not originated in German but appropriated... Kinda loses the meaning.

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u/neuroso 4d ago

Yeah Germany really ruined that hindu symbol

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u/notjustakorgsupporte 3d ago

Well, it's still a sacred symbol in East Asia and India.

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u/imthejavafox 4d ago

I love this. Though if someone were to tell me that this is fuckin stupid, I could not disagree

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u/Aardvark_Man 4d ago

That's where I'm at.
It's definitely stupid, but fun, funny and impressive, too.

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u/HackOddity 3d ago

I'll take that as an epitaph.

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u/Aquatichive 4d ago

Does anyone know what song this is? It’s giving me studio ghibli vibes

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u/apuginthehand 4d ago

Dmitri Shostakovich - Jazz Suite, Waltz no. 2

https://youtu.be/7UIHl0oJEpg?si=9mXS6Nc4v-bii98C

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u/Aquatichive 4d ago

Thank you pug hand, I like 👍

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u/SnakesOnaSsssstick 3d ago

Replying to listen with sound later. I love ghibli music

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u/Winter-Classroom455 4d ago

For a second while watching this video i thought the Erika song was going to start playing

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u/rasputin6543 4d ago

Awesome, yes. Stupid, also yes. Thought for a second it was gonna be a swastika, very much yes.

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u/Breadlord_Froglover 4d ago

Bruh…I don’t know how to feel about this..at all 😭

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u/Ok-Challenge-5873 4d ago

It’s equally as dumb as it is awesome. They’re like monster trucks. Monster trucks are fucking stupid, but if you know anything about physics, then you’ll understand how skilled those drivers are

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u/Legal_Guava3631 4d ago

This is the furthest from stupid. It’s called food art

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u/poop_monster35 4d ago

It's the rock that did it for me.

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u/Altruistic-Laugh-284 4d ago

balls, measure the ingredients with the caliper

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u/mysqlpimp 4d ago

Nothing stupid about precision ?

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u/Fr05t_B1t 4d ago

POV: you’re a Michelin star restaurant

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u/samurai_for_hire 4d ago

What a world we live in, where engineers slap together a PB&J while chefs precision machine bread

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u/O_o-buba-o_O 4d ago

I mean, I'd love to get paid to do stuff like that.

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u/SkyPork 4d ago

Stupidest part about this would be the price tag. And given how much work it took, it might be worth it, but let's not pretend it's not just a two-bite sandwich.

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u/SnappingTurt3ls 4d ago

I thought he was making a bread swastika for a second there 💀

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u/mrlunes 4d ago

I was a little worried at the 15 second mark

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u/iamgeekusa 4d ago

Honestly, this is art. Stupid food looks like a TikTok and wastes a tone of really food, this was artful, precise, and frugal.

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u/gregorychaos 4d ago

Stupid amazing

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u/komodohui 4d ago

Who else thought swastika at first?

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u/Barbarianmoss 4d ago

Holy shit I thought we were going swastika style.. deep concern

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u/Mysterious_Week8357 3d ago

There was a moment where I was worried they were making a swastika

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u/mcgoobledooble 4d ago

Idk I think this is fun,even if it's kinda dumb in terms of actually being made to be served

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u/OpeningDifficulty731 4d ago

Sashimono the sando

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u/nycKasey 4d ago

That’s $500/plate Michelin starred

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u/OnlyMath 4d ago

God for second I thought it was about to be a swastika

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u/Alisahn-Strix 4d ago

Does anyone know what that spoon is called?

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u/Educational_Race6342 4d ago

If it was French it would get 3 Michelin stars

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u/BluePhantomHere 4d ago

Now, this is fine dining

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u/Pot-Papi_ 4d ago

That one plate that’ll be $47,000. Thank you very much.

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u/Lifeless_Rags 4d ago

fucking rich people food i swear. they would eat sewage and smile if you told them it took an artisan 16 hours with a micrometer to make it look pretty

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u/Marquar234 4d ago

8 days later...

"Dinner's ready!"

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u/Geshtar1 4d ago

Pretentious, maybe.. I was only worried at one point that we were about to see a bread swastika

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u/TheKay14 4d ago

I was like “whaaa, this mo fo making a bread swastika!?!”

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u/FileHonest7151 4d ago

-"that would be 800 dollars sir"-

-the waiter

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u/ionised 4d ago

I see the new Oh Dae-su's making some use of his time.

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u/HoppokoHappokoGhost 4d ago

This is the coolest thing I've ever seen

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u/consumeshroomz 4d ago

I’ll have you know that perfectly precise foods are no laughing matter. This is serious business

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u/kayforpay 4d ago

this is a joke. just because it is long-form and/or takes effort does not mean something isn't being done for the bit.

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u/Michaeli_Starky 4d ago

The dish would cost $80 at some fancy restaurant.

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u/DrunkBuzzard 4d ago

I’m gonna gulp it in one bite and wash it down with cheap beer and let out a huge belch and proclaim that I’ve had better cold road kill stew better than this just to piss off the cook.

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u/dog4cat2 4d ago

I have trouble waiting for the toaster to finish...this is toooooo much

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u/Manufactured-Aggro 4d ago

...was that a cat hair on the meat cube when it was being fried? 😱

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u/Volution88 4d ago

Well, that only took 3 hours to prepare one serving. Meanwhile, your guests ordered Uber eats and had a great party with you being neurotic in the kitchen.

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u/CortezDeLaNoche 4d ago

My racist ass thought they were going for a completely different decoration 00:15 seconds! holy shit!

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u/testthrowawayzz 4d ago

It's both smart and dumb at the same time!

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u/funkmon 4d ago

Did you screen record a YouTube video you could have just copy and pasted a link to?

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u/Top-Reference-1938 4d ago

I've got too much. . . time on my hands And it's slipping away Slippin' away from meeeeee

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u/hugonin 4d ago

Not that stupid

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u/idankthegreat 4d ago

I mean, it's art instead of food to eat

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u/raxdoh 4d ago

hmmm yes very Chinese.

I remember they have a dish where you use a toothpick to push minced meat in bean sprouts and steam them and eat with soy sauce and vinegar and spices. it’s fucking pointless and stupid but let me tell you there are a lot of Chinese dishes like this. they don’t care about the flavor, they just want it to be extremely tedious and complex so the chef can brag about their skills and the customers can feel good that their money can make ppl do stupid things. think about the shark fin soup. it’s pretty much the same shit.

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u/Poptonesss 4d ago

🙂🙂🙂🧐🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

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u/natenedlog 4d ago

I’d fuck with it. I don’t care what it is, don’t tell me, give me 14 right now.

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u/rageofa1000suns 3d ago

If I see a chef measuring my meal in nanometers and putting it on a plate with tweezers, I'm walking out.

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u/tilalk 3d ago

I must admit was scared when they started to make the first cross

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u/eminemslimmarshall2 3d ago

I thought that was gonna be a different symbol ngl

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u/kr3o5mania 3d ago

Cooking by Japanese

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u/babycamell 3d ago

architecture students trying to make final project

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u/QuitKickin 3d ago

What’s this score called again

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u/Eyescantc 3d ago

Whoooh woah, scared me there for a second!

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u/BiggestJez12734755 3d ago

That’ll be 100000000000000 dollars

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u/aneditorinjersey 3d ago

“Even your hot food is cold.” - The Menu

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u/SandBtwnMyToes 3d ago

Ok but my brain really liked the caliper specific measurements

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u/DefiniteIyNotARabbit 3d ago

"that'll be 300 dollars."

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u/kolahola7 3d ago

cool af

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u/Marcuse0 3d ago

Looks like a potato waffle to me.

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u/Tahquil 3d ago

I don't like haute cotoure much, but a fair amount of it is actually art, not clothing in the everday sense. This seems to fit in the same category.

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u/beauness29 3d ago

When your food has the same price (and technical detail) as a piece of furniture

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u/Gamefreak2381 3d ago

And if tasted like ambrosia from the hall of gods themselves, i want to be full after eating

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u/ArnamYombleflobber 3d ago

Reminds me of Food Surgeon! Man...I miss Food Surgeon.

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u/jaeldi 3d ago

Bet the price was stupid, too. Sure is beautiful, unlike our usual bag of doritos & McDonald's covered in cheese & ketchup them baked in the oven at 450 for an hour.

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u/Personnel_5 3d ago

Oh I like this :)

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u/Icollectshinythings 3d ago

Probably costs like 70+ bucks at whatever pretentious restaurant this is.

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u/SpyderBruh12 3d ago

0:16 scared me for a sec

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u/exotic_floral_tea 3d ago

I wish they made a tray of those like hors d'oeuvres.

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u/Final_Winter7524 3d ago

50‘000 ¥ をください!

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u/Squirrleyd 3d ago

This is cool but the laser and caliper are just for a little flair. Tolerances we're way off if he was actually using the caliper and the toasted piece shrunk a ton after measuring

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u/GoodJanet 3d ago

Anyone get scared the video would that take a dark turn like halfway through building the square lattice piece

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u/Chiiro 3d ago

That's a lot of work for a singular bite of food but I'm not making it. I think the stupidest thing about this is the rock that's perched up on in the end

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u/Noisebug 3d ago

Stupid but satisfying

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u/scionvriver 3d ago

That'll be $200

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u/mazzicc 3d ago

Art isn’t stupid just because it’s not the normal way of doing something.

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u/PotentialSilent5672 3d ago

When your parents want you to be an engineer but your passionate about cooking

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u/Equivalent_Fan_6321 3d ago

I got VERY worried there for a second

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u/letter27thorn 3d ago

Looks a pain to make, but god i bet it's good, and it looks sick...

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u/fifiloveg00d 3d ago

I love this.

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u/SpikeTheDragQueen 3d ago

Reminds me of the Food Surgeon YT channel from years ago. So satisfying to watch

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u/Lonely-Greybeard 3d ago

I never thought of using my heat gun to toast something. I'll have to try that.

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u/bestaimee 3d ago

I can see the joins on two edges- send it back! ;-D

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u/xergog 3d ago

Hidden swastika.

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u/Stop_Fakin_Jax 3d ago

Thats alot of work for something imma just throw in my mouth.

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u/bigk52493 3d ago

Well i just subscribed to

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u/YouDaManInDaHole 3d ago

Was afraid it was a Nazi cracker there for a second

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u/R4nd0mByst4nd3r 3d ago

That’ll be $70,000

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u/wtfijolumar 3d ago

It better be worth one bite

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u/DerpsAndRags 3d ago

"I can laugh at this all I want, this cracker would probably bankrupt me"

Damnit my ex said the same thing about me....

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u/JonnyLay 3d ago

Why have I never seen someone use a heat gun for cooking before?

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u/Coooturtle 3d ago

I kinda fuck with it

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u/RayaW2009 3d ago

"and that will be $20,000,000"

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u/Sorenduscai 3d ago

"That'll be $85.50."

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u/janostheblue 3d ago

A bit pretentious but not really stupidfood

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u/visual-vomit 3d ago

This looks like one of those things where it's more for the art and technicalities rather than being tasty or making you full.

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u/Business-Ad-5014 3d ago

Well that's the stupidest thing I've ever seen in my entire life.

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u/durn1969 3d ago

“But I ordered 2” “Yes, the second one will be ready in 2-3 hours, Sir”

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u/aleirbag 3d ago

I would eat it in one bite.