While food presentation, or ‘plating’ has long been an important aspect to dining across many cultures, the dawn of the Instagram era has seemingly taken it to another level.
These days, dining out can feel like a trip to a tourist landmark. Dishes are carefully documented and curated for the visual satisfaction of virtual diners on social media. However, enhancing the aesthetic appeal of food is not just the domain of chefs in fancy restaurants.
Sometimes the humble green-grocer on the corner will take great pride in his produce, and carefully arrange his fruit and veg in a pleasing manner for his customers. Maybe you accidentally made a pancake that arranged itself into a triumph of geometry, or more often than not, Mother Nature was just awesome and produced the sexiest damn onion you have ever seen.
We here at Bored Panda have compiled a list of the most gorgeous grub we could find, whether it’s satisfyingly symmetrical or just plain tasty-looking! Scroll down below to check it out!
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Found This Chili With A Perfect "Mild To Hot" Gradient
Wow, now can youe taste your spicy tolerant level with just one pepper. :D
These Tomatoes Ripen In Order
My Tomato Plant Only Produced One Tomato This Year. But It Is Picture Perfect
A Perfect Two Toned Cherry
Amazing Natural Geometry In Cabbage
That First Level Of Bubbles
The Layers Of My Coffee
My Friend Makes Cakes. She Just Finished Making This Thing
My Chicken Laid A Perfectly Round Egg A Few Months Ago
This Perfect Cluster Of Apples
I Was Literally The First Person To Shop At This Newly Opened Grocery Store
These Piles Of Spice At A Market In Marrakesh
My Ice Cream Looks Just Like The Promotional Pictures Of Ice Cream
Somewhere Under The Carrot
From MentalFloss.com: Originally, purple carrots were the norm, but there were some offshoots. Yellow and white ones appeared in the wild. Over time, 17th-century Dutch carrot growers managed to cultivate these yellow and white ones carrots into the orange ones we're familiar with today. The purple ones still do exist, but they're by far the minority in the world of carrot colors. Want to try some? Beware — there may be a good reason why purple carrots are now the uncommon breed: the orange ones taste better...
Natural Honeycomb
Oh my gosh, may I have a spoon, please?? Oh, so good, in my tea, and cereal, and baking!!Etc...
Chocolate Rose
I Can't Stop Looking At It
Noone obviously dares to buy cherries here, afraid to drop a topple that mountain.
A Gummy Bear Sculpture
Pure Perfection
I Think I Made The Shit Out Of This Cake
"Mommy, when can we eat it?" "Are you INSANE? This is a work of ART!"
Grandmas Delicious 21 Layer Jello
My Pasta Synchronised Perfectly In The Pan Whilst Cooking
The Perfect Apple
My Aunt's Chickens Laid A Satisfying Palette Of Eggs
Cinnamon Rolls For Labor Day
Picked Some Near Perfect Strawberries
They are perfect! Look at that perfect color, and formation! YUMMY! MUST EAT!! <3
The Way These Fit In The Bag
The Color Gradient On This Orange
Nobody Should Be Allowed To Eat This Perfect Cake
My Smoothie This Morning
This Display Of Different Kinds On Honey At The Minnesota State Fair
This Grocery Store
Seven Layered Tea From The Tea State Of Bangladesh
Organically Grown Chinese 5 Color Hot Peppers
The Perfect Scoop Of Ice Cream
The Chef At My Restaurant Gave Me This Rose That He Crafted Out Of Pepperonis And The End Of A Jalapeño
Pancake Made In Rice Cooker
This Perfect Pyramid Of Pancakes
In A Perfect World
Grape-Dient
This Perfect Gradient Smoothie
My Oddly Shaped Cheese Fits On My Oddly Shaped Bread
Living Tomato Ripeness Chart
My Friends Cookie Jar
Wife Making Holiday Treats
Satisfying Tomato Plant
The Perfect Capsicum. I Challenge You To Find A Better One
How These Tater Tots Fit Together
Perfectly Smooth Vanilla Ice Cream
This Pb&J Sandwich
My Onion Ring Was A Perfect Infinity Symbol
"To infinity...and beyo--" You know, I can't quite work that into a joke, never mind
Starch Creating Perfect Outlines Of Potatoes
This Ice In My Drink
This Perfect Cake
The Chocolate On This Cake Is Beautiful
Ridiculously Photogenic Scoop Of Peanut Butter
I Removed My Boiled Egg Shell Nearly Perfect This Morning
Today I Spied A Cartoonily Perfect Homegrown Tomato
Dairy Queen Made The Prettiest Ice Cream Cone I'd Ever Seen
It doesn't fit the diameter of the cone, you got cheated out of ice cream.
A Perfect Dragonfruit That I Grew In My Backyard
Measured A Teaspoon Of Baking Powder, Then Accidentally Tapped The Spoon On The Bowl. The Powder Didn't Spill, But Shifted, While Retaining The Perfect Shape Of The Spoon
The Cross Section Of This Watermelon Revealed A Very Satisfying Pattern
that's actually how watermelons used to look like before being cultivated (to what we know today) they used to also be green
The Way This Slice Of Pepperoni Fits Inside The Onion
Some people are SO upset about pineapple on a pizza. Red onion or indeed any onion does the same to me. Onion has no effin business being on my pizza! Nuf said. Nice fit though :p
Inspired By A Friend's Design That I Was Jealous Of
The Way These Bottles Are Put On The Shelves
Toasted Marshmallows On A Maple Branch
Delicious but am i the only one who would think this would be better of they were burnt on the out side?
This Avocado Is Perfectly Cut
Normal Margaritas, Perfect Sunlight
This Egg
Japanese McDonalds Aesthetics
The Perfect Watermelon
Gummy Bears Organized Correctly
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Cake I Made For My Birthday This Year
This Spiral From A Lettuce
My Friend Found The Perfect Tic Tacs
This Pyramid Of M&ms
Tomatoes In Kebab Shop
This Steak
Ice Cream
My Eggs Came With A Pleasant Gradient
My Mango Is Rainbow Colored
I Found 5 Peanuts In A Shell
Jellybelly Factory
This Grapefruit Has A Perfect Stripe Of A Different Color
I Tried To Melt A Babybel Cheese Wheel On A Burger And It Looks Like A Perfect Egg
Rice Cooker Pancakes
Perfectly Topped Cheesecake
I Managed To Crush A Coca Cola Zero Can Perfectly
My Can Of Cocoa Was Completely Full
This Onion That I Bought Today
Apparently I Found The Perfect Bowl For My Can Of Soup
The Day This Happens Is A Good Day Indeed. Notice The Top Cover
How My Drink Arranged Itself
Blue Buttercream Swirly Cake
My Filet-O-Fish Bun Is Perfect
What The Buns Look Like At Mcdonalds Before They Sit On Them
A Clean Peel
Look At This Sexy Onion
A Perfect Fit
Two Perfect Slices Of Salmon Sashimi Over Rice
Heirloom Tomatoes Gradient
This Whole Foods Display Is Oddly Satisfying
Opened My Ice Cream Today And Almost Didn't Want To Eat It
That what happens when the ice cream has melted and then it is freezed again.
This Apple
It looks like some weird planet in space with a ginormous tree growing on it
My Egg Yolk Came Perfectly Out Of The White When I Flipped It
I Bet You Haven't Been This Bored
Watermelon Flesh. Also Oddly Unsettling
Meat On My Sandwich
my best friend taught me how to do that. just cut 2 round bologna slices in half then fold it like flaps of a box (if that makes sense)
Nice And Tight Perfect Croissant
My Coffee Has A Perfect Gradient Of Creamer
To The Dominos Person Who Made My Pizza: You Get Me Like No One Else Ever Will
Accidentally Heart Shaped Neatly Organized Dinner
This Pleases Me On So Many Levels
This "Pixelated" Avocado
This Dome Of Rice
You just scoop the rice into a wet bowl, pack it down, flip it, and violla your plating like a wok cook.
My Friend's Mixed Ice Cream Had A Perfect Split
These Eggs At The Farmer's Market Were All Arranged To Have A Color Gradient
A Starburst Hotdog
My Friends Perfectly Grilled Grilled Cheese
Cold Cut Perfection
When I Sliced My Apple It Had Perfect Stars At Its Core
This Banana Is Almost Perfectly Straight
My Ripening Tomatoes
My Smoothie Made An Interesting Design After I Blended It
Carrots Stacked At The Supermarket
One Of The Skittles I Dropped Broke Perfectly In Half
My Spaghetti Hoops Arranged Themselves Perfectly Around The Outside Of The Can
This Granola Bar's Rapper Image Is Perfectly Accurate
I Just Made The Most Perfect Marshmallow
This Perfect Banana
But when you're eating it you drop it in to a puddle of cement... that's what happens when ur hungry
I Just Made What I Believe To Be The Most Perfect Pancake I've Ever Made In My Life
Perfect Xlb
Drooling at this picture! Perfectly steamed not to split! ...for those who have never tried them, they are a soft ball of pork mince, ginger, spring onion and seasoning, floating in delicious pork jus, encased in a thin dumpling wrapper. Notoriously easy to rip when picking it up this losing the amazing "soup". Normally you'd hold it over a spoon to catch these.... I inevitably burn my chin every few months as I dig in too fast! Quintessential Chinese cooking at its finest.
The Most Perfect Vanilla Bean Cheesecake I've Ever Made
A Whiter Shade Of Pale Cake
Well, If You're Going To Make Ratatouille, You Make The Ratatouille From Ratatouille, Right?
That's Chillastic
This Wonderful Cupcakes Gradient
This Ice Sphere Formed A Perfect Seal With The Lower Portion Of My Pint Glass, Allowing No Liquid Into The Bottom
So you got stolen as paying for a whole pint and getting less than it....
I Like Em Thick
How does it get cooked completely through? How do you get them this thick?
Near Perfect Extraction Of Jelly From Single Serving Packet
I Ate This Perfect, Old-Fashioned S'more
These Eggs
The Roundness Of This Confetti Cake
Amazing Pattern Made By Watermelon Slices
The Way This Restaurant Cuts Its Lettuce
I Ate Perfect Japanese Pancakes
I Cut This Tomato Perfectly Along The Membrane
Symmetrical Tomato Stem
This Omelet I Made Is The Perfect Size For The Toast
Vacuum Sealed Bag Of Rice
This Almost-Perfect Shelf Stocking Job
These Perfect Cherry Tomatoes
The Way The Cheese Fits My Bread
One Of My Greater Achievements In Life
My Perfectly Round Pancake!
This Waffle Perfectly Fits In The Plate
This Ice Cream Swirl
Taking A Dip In A Chockolate
This Marshmallow's Outside Has Been Roasted Pretty Much Perfectly
My Eggs Were Perfectly Lined Up Today
Kumpis Spiral
I had to google 'kumpis' .... it's Lithuanian Ham .... nothing to see, moving on....