I was so happy to finally make it back to classes at Grossmont College. I thought I'd share some of my experiences.
This is from the first carving class. I figured that this would be useful for general dexterity, and may give me cake decorating ideas too. It was a lot of fun, although it can be very frustrating, as Chef Joe is very skilled and makes the whole thing look super easy!
Here he is cutting a chrysanthemum out of a turnip.
We were then taught a simple technique of cutting small flowers out of carrots. I found this infuriating, hopefully I'll get the hang of it with some practice. I can tell we'll be eating a lot of carrots this week!
Chef then showed us a technique with a potato where you carve a straight line, then a diagonal to meet it, resulting in a striped pattern. This looks to be one of the techniques which will be very important.
Thankfully I found this technique a little easier than the carrot one, here's my potato!
Chef then showed off a bit with some more ornate carving of a melon.
The flowers were all combined together to form a bouquet.
Here is the chef's handiwork
And our team's work. I thought it came out very nicely, and it was lucky for me that this was a team project, so my pathetic looking carrots were hidden amongst some much prettier ones!
