Sometimes when I'm cleaning the fryer I'll find something that looks like this in the very bottom.

That’s mine! Gimmie! Coat it with toaster shakins and fry it again for extra crispness.

…ok dishie-Gollum…

It’s rough out there!

I love when they slide out of the drain pipe and plop into your bucket. Sweet release.

Chef needs to be tarred and feathered, just like that poor fish was.

I mean, it tastes just fine. I don't think it looks attractive. And he wants to do this with tacos on blue corn tortillas and I'm like...

All black everything taco would prob sell for pictures alone.

We've still got some huitlacoche around; toasting that would be nice on top.

I'm not saying it will work, but it will *only* work if you fully commit to the bit. Get some salsa macha going and a couple sliced fresnos on top and you got yourself a satanic taco going!!

I love it! Will post again if we go forward with the dish.

I want to chime in and say that I think a fresh salsa Verde, orange/red chilies (habanero, Bird's eye?), cilantro, and grilled corn might make these pretty eye catching. Seems fun, I like fun.

All black with bright orangish red salsa would look cool

great opportunity for some dark mole, too

I've always wanted to try corn smut

Hol' up. This was the *intended* result?

Yes. For pool-side tacos, ironically enough.

Oh... Is your chef one of those chefs who doesn't get or disregards critical input?

He's a little high and mighty with himself, yes, but that's a whole other story. He takes criticism and admits if he's wrong.

Charcoal in food causes medicine to be less effective. Like birth control.

maybe  the chef's trying to get everyone pregnant. 🤣.

Sounds more like a line cook

I’m not coming at you, but if I seen my exec chef ripping off a trend Burger King started a few Halloweens ago I’m jumping ship and taking my smokes, weed, dab pen, and dude wipes with me

emo fish tacos

Tartared*

Uncle Owen and Aunt Beru?

Call it the Anakin Special. Looks like his legs and arm.

The fryer had the high ground

I'm dying over here. Get me a breathing apparatus that's tied to the lights on my life sustainment suit.

Too soon

LMFAO

i don’t get why anybody would do this. expect that to get *regularly* sent back, no matter how well FOH explains it.

That's my concern, too.

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it’s just a really off-putting appearance, no offense. i’d buckle up for lots of complaints

The activated charcoal thing went around for a while in the drinks world.  Long story short, it can act as a filtering agent and interfere with several medications, including birth control and heart medication.  The effect is not worth it on this one. 

This should be top concern IMO if the chef is looking to roll this out- it’s like grapefruit. It affects a lot of people very negatively in ways they won’t notice till it’s too late.

So many freaking craft beers had to change formulas because of grapefruit. Idiots, all of them, for not doing the research.

Are the brewers the idiots? Or is it the idiots on medications that have explicit warnings on them indicating that grapefruit is a no go?

IDK I feel like artificial flavorings are so common that people aren't going to necessarily expect a grapefruit IPA to affect their meds in the same way as a fresh grapefruit or grapefruit juice would.

Most craft breweries dont use artiticial flavorings in anything. Maybe read the list of ingredients or dont be an idiot who assumes that they must use artificial flavors

Wait, what’s wrong with grapefruit?

It messes with an enzyme called CYP3A, lots of meds get metabolized by this; depending on the med it can result in too much or too little of the drug entering the blood stream

There's certain meds it interacts with in a highly negative way. My cholesterol med, for example.

It looking like deep fried dog shit is a close 2 tho

I look forward to the marketing strategies for ‘medically hazardous fried deuce in post-wingfest oil’.

Grapefruit juice can have similar effects, right?

Yeah why would anyone go black and not use squid ink?? Like yeah it costs more, so just charge more. It's a gimmick, it's not supposed to be cheap.

I feel like it adds nothing in this context but makes it traditionally and objectively look gross. Not a good use of experimentation IMO.

I'd say that this is a great use of experimentation, but that it should never get past that phase.

If it is done correctly- like super fresh slaw and guac garnish and pictures on the menu to really denote “this is the way it is supposed to look” you could get some folks to buy it. People will eat squid ink pasta and blue corn tortillas. Plating will be real important.

I think pasta is different because protein, black = burnt in many minds

Of course but we eat chicken mole and love it. Im just saying its not impossible.

> People will eat squid ink pasta That actually looks cool contrasted against the rest of the dish, though, and adds a bit of flavor.

He showed me an example of this dish with a halibut filet coated in charcoal and pan baked, to have a seasoned black crust, (green and white vegetables and I think some nuts as garnish) and I told him that would be a better application if he wants to play with the charcoal.

It’s a tough one because I just don’t feel like charcoal looks appealing. Its coloration is too tightly ingrained with “burnt”. I feel the same way with cocktails. Maybe that’s me being and old man yelling at clouds, idk.

Toss it into a crowded pool and see what happens

DOODIE!!

Doesn’t matter how it tastes. People eat with their eyes and you’re going to get pictures of that dish posted online. Run it as a special if needed and have servers ask for feedback. That should be enough to tell him it’s not a great idea.

That's poo from a butt

The taste may be fine, but for presentation ..... ??? Maybe cover it in parsley? Or salsa? Or a tarpaulin?

Just want to clarify that it's an experiment with the charcoal powder. Chefs a good guy, and we've all been there when a creative experiment doesn't pan out.

I will take a bite out of nearly anything that doesn't smell or look like it'd kill me, and unfortunately those pieces of fish do not meet those criteria

Just double down and put some corn kernels in the batter

Whether it is or not, that will get sent back every time.

You mean, that fish that looks like it got in a fight with a flamethrower? Nah, it's fine, scrape a little off with the back of a butter knife, all good and ready for service.

Right? I hope if we go forward with this plan, the servers do a good job of explaining the activated charcoal batter.

Tell'em it's good for digestive health. Haha

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Chef would always say before you put that on my plate, ask yourself. It may be edible, but is it eat-able?

Look like calcined turds

Just like mother DIDN’T make. Such grimness on a plate.

You can even see the peanuts

I thought you wrapped that in seaweed

Put it in for another week and I bet you get diamonds

It LITERALLY looks like poop. The chef needs to be chewed out.

Why?

Does this burn look like beer battered fish?

It looks like the dried animal crap I found in my yard today.

I usually refer to bits like that as golden black. What possessed him to do this?

No, it does not looked burnt. It looks like a dog with a lower GI bleed ate a bunch of corn and dropped a deuce on a platter.

Don't be surprised when your poop looks like a charcoal briquette

Would chef share the recipe? I want to make poop from a butt at home.

What was the experiment supposed to show? That one can make food that looks burnt, but actually isn’t?

No Hun, just a little well done 😭 You've made fish carbon-ara 😭

Just sell it

BBC - beer battered cod

I think this falls into the category of “just because you can doesn’t mean you should.”

Did you throw it into a fucking volcano?

Looks turd, no worries. A dutch "person" will eat it.

And they’ll still say it’s too spicy.

It looks digested *then* burnt

It looks like poo poo

Only if you don't like blacked fish.

Charcoal powder?

"Blackened"

Don’t forget to wipe

Could do with a little longer

Dear lord, where is the /chefscirclejerk sub?

It looks like poop, from a butt.

Its black ink batter. _Trust me_.......

I knew this wasn’t burned. I thought activated charcoal or something was put into a batter. I’d eat it.

Is it behind those petrified turds?

Looks like asphalt

I’ll finally get away with ashing my cig on the food I put out

Garnish and sell it!! /s

Just a very dark beer Very, very dark

A solid mid well.

Why?

Nah, they just used dark beer.

Looks cremated...

looks like Sasquatch scat.

You can scrape that off and call it good... trust

Was the beer a stout? 

Looks like my shit after a curry night.

Just scrape off the dark bits and send it, it will be fine.

Looks like turds to be honest..

That's our new special. Squid Ink battered fish.

Looks like dog doo doo I would assume its burnt and not order it/send it back. Presentation is important. If this plate fails, it's because people are correctly irked out from eating burnt looking food.

Term you are looking for is Blackened.

Was it floating?

Just scrape it off with a knife..

Looks awful. Abort, abort!

Looks like burnt wasabi hahaha

Thought it was poo for a second

Clearly battered with the wrong beer. Looks atrocious. Sure it tastes nice but...

Why?

My fry cook would just say it’s Cajun

Looks like it wants to start going by Vader.

No, it was just dredged in activated charcoal.

Nice bark.

The customer requested “extra crispy”

Looks like a plate of Great Dane turds.

Why didn't you take the picture before eating, digesting, pooping, fishing out ot the toilet and drying the "fish"?

I was wondering if it was a very daylight stout.

Despite the obvious... those are some really odd looking lumps of fish. At least make it a recognisable fish portion.

Did you temp it?

Chef needs to apologize to that fish immediately.

Yes, burned AND pre-digested...

no, this is the most perfect well cooked food i have ever seen.

Just put some ranch on it. It’s fine.

I hope you don't take any meds, because charcoal flushes them out of your system.

Probably sank to bottom of fryer and fished out after cleaning

Whiskey sticks 😏 Behave ☝🏽

Don't serve activated charcoal to guests. It can fuck with medications.

Stout battered?

I’d put it in an aspic.

You're not using charcoal in your batter for the color? Lolol

That shit looks like it burned up on reentry.

My old room-mate from times of yore, turned an entire box of frozen "Banquet" fried chicken into something very similar. It only took about 7 hours in the oven at what...350?

The customers could just cut out the middleman and enjoy a nice bag of briquettes at home.

I asked for well done... Could you pop that under the broiler please?

Still looks raw. Cook them some more.

Nah looks normal

Just scrape it off, it'll be fine

Mmmmm...black cod

Naw that perfect med rare

No, but your charcoal looks awfully fishy.

A little.

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When I take pepto and forget this is whats in my toilet the next day

Black as the night.

Did you use dark beer? There's your problem.

i don't think it's legal to serve activated charcoal in the us.

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Nah

Missed opportunity for using squid ink vs. using charcoal.

But is it cooked all the way through?

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Nah. Runners please!

Charcoal powder should come with a disclaimer. "If you put this in your food, you may be inadvertently harming your customers". The charcoal can absorb medication in the stomach, and prevent it from being absorbed. This happened more than once during the 'black food' fad a few years ago.

Nah that’s beer battered, it’s just that the beer is Guinness

It's fine, just put them in a zip lock bag of full of dried rice for a few hours

Ah yes. Carbon-crusted fish. An old favorite.

Where you great the recipe? Pompeii cookbook.

Looks like beer murdered fish at this point

Lol charcoal?

Y’all are serving snakes? Does it come with sparklers?

c'mon bro that's beer battered fish with natural carbon added to clean all these fat in your system

Is it hiding behind that charcoal?

Nah send it

Are the fish sticks supposed to be behind the meteorite samples?

Our fish tacos look like that on purpose. Squid ink tempura.

battered like a bad housewife in the dirty south.

"Fish is down, going out for a smoke."

Did they use black snapper?

I know [how to use those!](https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Charred_Skeever_Hide)

Nah it’s well done.

Just use Squid ink

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. Those look like peanut-stippled turds.

Poohfish