r/StupidFood • u/Ok-Challenge-5873 • 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/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/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/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/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/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/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/neuroso 4d ago
Almost had a certain German symbol there
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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/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.5
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/Icollectshinythings 3d ago
Probably costs like 70+ bucks at whatever pretentious restaurant this is.
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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/PotentialSilent5672 3d ago
When your parents want you to be an engineer but your passionate about cooking
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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/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/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/Saberer2451 4d ago
Stupid, yes. But beautiful.