Course Overview
It is well known that you eat with your eyes first! The Art of Carving Fruit and Vegetables course will help you present your food in a visually appealing, creative and appetising way.
This will help anyone who is interested to learn the skills and techniques to create beautifully carved fruit and vegetable centrepieces. You will learn how to use a knife to safely carve out different shapes such as leaves, roses, lillies, swans and fruit baskets.
You will be amazed how much you can learn in a short period of time, making it easy for you to create attractive plate settings and, at the more advanced level, really impressive table centerpieces.
The skills learnt in this course will help individuals who enjoy impressing at dinner parties as well as for the catering professionals who will be proud of their works of art.
By the end of the course you will not look at fruits and vegetables the same way again!
Macquarie Community College operates from a range of venues across Northern and Western Sydney. We have campuses in Blacktown, Carlingford, Chatswood, Epping, Mt Druitt, Richmond, and Ryde. Enrol now!
What you will learn
Course outline
In this course you will learn carving and garnishing techniques for example:
- Carving watermelons into fruit baskets
- Carving carrots into leaves
- Carving zucchinis into roses
- Carving apples into swans
- Carving fennel into calla lilies
- How to hold a carving knife
- How to preserve fruits and vegetables
Course outcome
By the end of the course students will have learnt the techniques needed to be able to creatively and confidently carve various fruits and vegetables into delicate patterns, flowers etc to use as garnishes, fruit platters and decorations.
What you need to know
Entry requirements
No prerequisites required. This class is suitable for beginners to advanced carvers.
Students must be able to satisfy basic carving techniques including correctly holding carving knives and completing various carving to proceed to more advanced and delicate forms of carving.
What you need to provide
- A chopping board
- One of the classes will require students to bring their own watermelon to carve into a fruit basket (to be advised the class before)
Other information
- The carving knife at the first class is $10
- If students wish to purchase the entire carving set (including 80 additional knives and carving tools the cost is $80)
- The teacher will provide the fruit for each class (except for the watermelon). At the end of each class the cost of the fruit is split between the students (usually $4-5 dollars each student).