The use of carvings is multifaceted, it is not only the beautification of the feast, the atmosphere of the plastic arts, but also in conjunction with the dishes can show its unique characteristics. It can make a beautiful dish icing on the cake, become a work of art, and some dishes in the meaning of harmony, pleasing to the eye, intriguing.
The use of carvings on dishes is selective, it is based on the content of the dishes and specific requirements to determine the form of carvings and the use of methods.
The food carving to the cold dishes, generally part of the carving parts with cold dishes of raw materials, composed of a complete shape, such as "peacock open screen", the peacock's head is carved, and other parts of the body, such as feathers, etc., is with cucumber, ham sausage, soy sauce, beef tongue, mixing shredded chicken, Crane tungsten eggs, spicy cabbage and other meat and vegetables Raw materials and become. Make the carving work and the dish ingredients into one.
Food carving in the use of hot dishes, it is necessary to take into account from the meaning of the dishes, harmonies, shapes and other aspects. Such as lotus fish maw this hot dish, with a pair of mandarin ducks carving, it has become a festive and auspicious symbolism of the "mandarin ducks play lotus"; then, such as grilled bear palm with an eagle carving, borrowing its harmonics, it becomes "Ying (eagle) male ③ ten fighting spirit", suddenly interesting; from the shape of the Ideas, a dish of fish pouring sauce on the edge of the plate, with a fishing rod holding a fishing boy carving, that is, "fishing boy fishing", so that the whole dish and carving works to produce the effect of harmony and consistency.
In the specific placement, cold dishes and carvings can be put closer, hot dishes and carvings to be farther away, such as in the carvings around the fresh cucumber slices, cauliflower, etc. for the perimeter, not only to increase the decorative effect, but also do not affect each other.
In short, the application of food carving is flexible, whether it is accompanied by dishes, landscaping countertops, in the shape of the requirements are very strict, which requires us chefs not only to have a gourmet style, but also has the artist's style, so that food carving has really become an indispensable part of the cooking technology. In order to make the carved works to achieve the desired effect, before carving, should pay attention to the following requirements:
(1) understand the banquet form. Banquet forms are varied, simple can be divided into "birthday banquet", "celebration banquet", "party banquet", "family banquet ", international exchanges: 'State Banquet", trade and work banquets and large-scale cocktail parties and so on.
(2) to understand the customs and habits of guests. With the deepening of reform and opening up, our country and international exchanges more and more, which requires us to understand more about the different countries and regions people's habits, customs, religious beliefs, preferences, taboos and so on, in order to differentiate from the guests, carve out the guests' favorite works.
(3) highlight the theme. In order to avoid the clutter of carving works, before carving should first determine the theme, conceptualization of the works to be carved structure, proportion (layout) and other issues to ensure that the theme is prominent, while taking into account the role of a number of additional works of accompaniment, such as the "hundred birds towards the wind" works of "birds", "Confucius", "Confucius", "Confucius", "Confucius", "Confucius", "Confucius", "Confucius", "Confucius", "Confucius" and so on. At the same time, it is necessary to consider the role of some additional works, such as "hundred birds" in "Hundred Birds Toward the Wind", "peacock and peony", "peony flower", and so on. The additional works should not be far-fetched, put together, so as not to add to the snake, can not play the role of the finishing touch.
(4) Selection of raw materials and materials for art, selection of materials for the success or failure of the carving works is crucial, in the selection of materials, not only to choose the quality of excellent color beauty of the raw materials, but also in the raw material of the shape to consider, generally speaking, the shape of the raw materials and the image of the work of the general shape of the similarity of the shape of the carving up is relatively smooth, and the shape of the shape of the carving of the raw materials, the author should give full play to the ability to imagine, broaden horizons, according to the materials.
(5) pay attention to health requirements. As food carving and dishes with very close, at the same time, is the banquet on the dishes before the "first officer", therefore, good food carving hygiene measures are particularly important, which requires us first to keep the raw materials clean and sanitary, good texture. Do not use spoiled or rotten raw materials, so as to ensure the quality of the banquet and the health of the guests. Carving can also be divided into: ice carving Foam carving Butter carving.