It's just burger wabi sabi.

silves89 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I think this is the reason.

For a deeper look at this philosophy of craft you won't do much better than The Beauty of Everyday Things, by Soetsu Yanagi: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-beauty-of-everyday-thing...

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platinumrad 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You guys learn one term...

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tenpies 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I was going to say feng shui, but the handful of times I've seen it brought up in the context of food plating the whole point was harmony and balance . . .

Having food askew is probably messing with the eater's qi.

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zeroCalories 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah just say horse radish geeze

	▲	msephton 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		You're missing a syllable

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glhaynes 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This seems the most likely explanation to me.

It's just much more visually interesting than a page full of perfect burgers. Each one looks like a unique thing from the real world; they don't "look AI", as the kids say these days.

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neves 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Japoneses aesthetics favor assimetry. There's a lovely book , Book of Tea, that have fun with west tastes https://www.gutenberg.org/files/769/769-h/769-h.htm

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11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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observationist 11 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Burger chizutsugi needs to be a thing.

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jmount 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Like go pieces being deliberately too large for the board they are used on.

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kristianp 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Doesn't that make it impossible to place the stones in the correct positions?

	▲	rdevilla 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, exactly.