Carving is a real art, bright, colorful, elegant. After all, even to lay the fruits in vases in such a way as to emphasize the individuality and the most attractive aspects of each, and you need to be able to, and then cut out the very same fruits patterned, create whole compositions from them ... Not every still-life artist can do what it seems. However, everything is not so complicated, and carving can be mastered, as well as other culinary skills.
A few preliminary tips
You can see some examples of how to cut fruit beautifully in the photographs in this article. Next - just turn on your imagination and create as you prompt a sense of style and taste. But without the following rules, you will hardly get a positive result:
- First of all, you definitely need an appropriate set of tools. Different kinds of notches, spoons, molds, knives with special blades will not only facilitate the work, but will also prove to be indispensable assistants for the embodiment of the most intricate images. To learn how to cut fruit nicely, take a note: you will need a so-called Thai knife with a small blade, narrow and sharp. It is holding it in your hands that you can create something amazing from an ordinary apple or pear . Knife with a blade in the form of a sickle: they make cuts-semicircles and others. Triangular shoulder blades: they are needed to cut leaves, petals and even a complex ornament. Convenient additional tools, wielding which skillful housewives demonstrate how to cut fruit beautifully, can be considered knives with oval blades and semicircular ends - a good complement to triangular. Spoon-nuazetki, cutting balls from fruits, are also indispensable for master decorators. And, of course, small kitchen scissors: they can be trimmed delicately, for example, the “crown” of pineapple.
- Secondly, those who want to learn how to cut fruits beautifully need to remember: slightly unripe fruits or the first category of freshness, solid, without wormholes, spots, etc. are suitable for artistic processing. If you take even tasty, but too ripe, they will remember, lose their "salable" appearance, or even fall apart. Yes, and working with them will be difficult.
- Thirdly, to cut fruits onto the table beautifully, you need to be able to combine paints, combine tones and shades. Some are better to peel, others, on the contrary, leave in the skin. And so that they do not run out of juice, pre-brew a little jelly and dip the peeled pieces into it. Then the slices will not darken.
- Fourth, these delicate products should be cut immediately before serving. You need to supplement empty dishes and plates as you eat fruit.
Some suggestions
And now a few suggestions on how to cut beautifully fruit. If oranges are carefully cut into the skin in the form of a lily flower and removed without damaging the petals, you will get cups where you can put dark red cherries or green grapes, red strawberries.
Orange and other listed colors look very impressive. Or cut the same oranges in a peel into slices and place them on a dish in the shape of flowers, combining them with mugs or long “petals” of bananas. The pulp is taken out of the pineapple, and the “basket” itself is filled with whole fruits. The pulp is cut into rhombs, cubes and served, pouring raspberries or red and black currants. Exotic carambola as if intended to make elegant green stars out of it. Apples will perfectly depict flowers and butterflies. And the rest of the fruits of orchards and berry plants will take their rightful place on your table.
Serving figuredly sliced fruit is best on flat dishes.