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  1. sawyerwelden on

    This is fantastic. How’d you go about forming the shape? I feel like I’d collapse the outer bavarois making the hollowed inside for the gel.

  2. Just a question. Do you think it’s need to put coconut in every aspect of the dish….. when the main part of its coconut… kinda seems……

  3. Good plate. Solid technique, but this is a plating critique sub so…change the plateware, I wouldn’t be mad at this in a wooden bowl, just keep the island theme going. The gel makes sense for the flavor, but the three dots are dated and feel like an afterthought. Perhaps place them inside the pooled sauce inside the coconut? Finally, micro cilantro? If it’s to incorporate something green into the dish you need to delete or edit that garnish. If you think that flavor works in the dish then I’d recommend adding that to the description of the dish. The pineapple fucks tho.

  4. Electronic-Donut8756 on

    Reminiscent of a coconut I had at Alan Wongs Honolulu in like 2006. I believe they used a balloon to make theirs.

  5. Novel_Sheepherder277 on

    I’m blown away as it is, but I had a few other thoughts looking at it again.

    Imho, grilled pineapple is far superior without rum (and I do love Rum). The intense flavour of the fuit on It’s own is mindblowing, especially with a good amount of caramelization, which is also easier to achieve without the rum. That’s just my 2p.

    Carving the bavorois out a bit more so it’s .5cm thinner around the lip would give you more realism.

    I would prefer the gel to be clear or milky. The dots could be piped onto shards of chocolate shell.

    A gel illusion maraschino cherry (such as might garnish a pina colada) might add a nice pop of color.

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