Please let me know your scores on the box below, and any reasons/justification. There will likely be a follow-up, and I'll post the actual scores received. Note, I did clean up some of the sauce before I turned in.
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I would give it a 6 maybe even 5.
My first inpression was wow that is dark chicken could be the lighting though, the next thing I saw was that the pieces were not very uniform, and lastly the garnish is rather distracting mainly becasue of the parsley between the pieces.
So now for the scores in decending order...I think a lot of you will be surprised:
9-9-7-7-6-6
I'd say you got lucky and hit 2 rookie judges.
Maybe they realize it's a meat contest more than we do. :-D
You make some good points. I believe there are two other factors in play here as well:
First, when judging you have only a couple seconds to decide your score. You just don't have time to scrutinize a box for small details - it's only an overall impression unless there is some glaring mistake jumps out at you.
Secondly, as cooks we spend an inordinate amount of time talking about appearance simply because it is the one criteria we can objectively discuss without having the meat to sample. In an environment where there are so many factors beyond our control we naturally latch on to the one thing that can be most easily documented and repeated.