Video on carving from vegetables and fruits for beginners and master classes

Carving is the art of artistic cutting on various surfaces. But the most common type is the creation of jewelry from vegetables and fruits. It's best to learn by example, like a video master class. With the help of these lessons, you can more clearly tell how and what to do in order to achieve an excellent result. Attention to the screen.

There are a lot of variations on this subject, below are some photo-examples of some of them.

Basic rules and secrets in this art

Before you start creating something from vegetables and fruits, you need to know clearly which products are suitable for this, whether they need to be processed or not. Turnip is great for compositions in white colors, and beets for creating flowers such as roses. Onions, cabbage or cucumbers are perfect for leaflets. Citrus, watermelon, melon and zucchini are great for a variety of baskets and vases or boats.

You can make roses from sliced ​​carrots, tomatoes and lemons to decorate a sliced ​​or any other meat dish.

Also sometimes it is required to tint some elements in a dish, for this purpose it is better to use natural dyes. It can be beet juice, mayonnaise, paprika, saffron and so on.

In order for your dish to look perfect, you must clearly observe the proportions. Do not overload it with decorations in some servings, the fewer elements of decor, the better. Also, do not neglect the location of the decorations in your dish, if this is not done correctly, the result will not be exactly what you expected. And, of course, the colors in your creation should also be combined or contrasted.

Another important point in carving is the tool that you use. If your knives are not sharp enough or just not suitable for cutting vegetables and fruits, then, naturally, they can not create a masterpiece with their help.

There are many master classes that are suitable for beginners as well as for more advanced masters. Thanks to the fact that in these examples a step-by-step photo is used, anybody can learn the basics of carving. Below is a detailed master-class on creating a swan from an apple.

Master class on carving from apples( creating a swan)

Such swans are very easy to do, so even the person who has decided to do carving for the first time will cope with this task. But, despite the ease in performance, this decoration perfectly complements any lunch or dinner.

Materials for work

• Large apple.
• Seeds of pepper, will be needed for the eyes.
• Knife. Toothpicks to strengthen the structure.
• Lemon and water. They will be needed for the solution.

First of all you need to make an acidic solution from the juice of lemon and water, it will not allow the apple to oxidize and darken in the process of creating a swan. For such acidic water, you need one half of a lemon juice per half liter of boiled water.

Take the apple and cut it into three pieces as shown in the photo.

In one of the large halves make a rectangular cut, there will be attached the neck of the swan.

Now cut out the wings on one side and on the other. Try to do it as carefully as possible, so that you do not have two cut halves in your hands, do not cut it to the end. Do not forget to periodically sprinkle the future swan with acidic water.

From the core, which we separated at the very beginning, we carve the neck.

Insert the neck into the previously made hole and admire the result.

The work is ready, congratulations!