brunoise! this is one of the most basic techniques anyone can do, yet really shows the amount of care, technique, and skill that can go behind the simple prep for different sauces, dishes, and anything it goes into. this definitely isn’t the only way to brunoise, just a method that I learned focusing on making the most perfect and nice dices. it is really fun and great to practice your knife skills with, and although you would hardly see this outside of fine dining, I think it is an excellent skill to learn even as a home cook if you are interested in improving your precision, consistency, and knife skills! hope you all enjoy the video, trying my best to make my new apartment space work and please let me know if you like it. as always feel free to comment below or message me directly with any questions :D #fyp #culinary #culinaryarts #chef #food #cook #cooking #knife #knifeskills #learn #learntocook #basics #brunoise #technique #tutorial

here is a quick but extremely useful tip on how to tie piping bags! Just like how you mise en place ingredients, setting your piping bags up properly will lead you to a nice and easy cooking experience. This is one of the first things I learned when I started working at my restaurant and I realized that not many other people do this, even though it makes piping so much easier and cleaner. I hope you all learn something from this video, little things like these that you can apply to upgrade even your home cooking make me really excited :) as always feel free to comment below with any questions or message me directly! #fyp #culinary #culinaryarts #cook #cooking #chef #tip #learn #learntocook #skill #basics #tutorial #pipingbag #piping #restaurant #technique #food

Here’s how I did on my first final exam of culinary school! We have been prepping and getting ready for these exams for a few lesson now, and our first of two exams is all about making a dish starting with a whole fish and a set list of ingredients. I wanted to do something fun but also complicated to challenge myself and I definitely had a lot of components and different things to focus on while I was making this dish. I also wanted to make an effort to stay as clean and organized as possible throughout the exam and I ended up making something that I am really proud of taste wise, but not so much conceptually and visually. In hindsight I should have had three pieces of the mosaic on the plate each individually garnished and with contrasting colors (my idea was to have it monochromatic, but it ended up being too much) but still I had a lot of fun winging all of the recipes and making this dish come together in just a couple of hours. I really can’t believe that there is only one more lesson to share with you all, it really is just the beginning of our culinary journeys together, and there is so so so much more I am excited to share with you. Hope you all enjoyed and as always, if you have any questions feel free to comment below or message me directly! #fyp #culinary #culinaryarts #culinarystudent #culinaryschool #chef #cook #cooking #learntocook #test #exam #final #grade #pressure #food #rate #taste #fish #pov #dayinthelife #foodtok #cooktok

Final exam time! wanted to try something fun for one of my final exams so here’s a POV view of me going through my test. This test was a 2 hour practical where we had to filet and skin a flounder than use it with 2 other vegetables, 1 sauce, 1 starch, and garnish and present to our chef for grading. I had lots of fun pushing myself for this exam and really trying not to be too messy (even though I was hahaha). This was a thai inspired green curry with a flounder and nori mosaic, topped with a basil emulsion, thai fried basil, basil oil, on a bed of rice with pickled zucchini and broccoli stem. Hope you all enjoy and as always if you have any questions feel free to comment below or message me directly! Happy weekend :D #fyp #culinary #culinaryarts #culinarystudent #culinaryschool #pov #chef #cook #cooking #food #final #exam #test #grade #taste #dayinthelife #asmr #foodtok #cooktok

More culinary techniques and here we have the chiffonade! Super simple but effective way to cut up your herbs instead of chopping them which gives you long stringy/ribbons that can go into sauces, soups, or fresh on top of anything. With any herb just pick a few leaves, stack them on each other, roll them up so they become easy to cut, and slice away. Another thing I forgot to mention is while cutting herbs you should really try to slice with a forward motion instead of just chop up and down because when you chop you damage the herb and crush it which isn’t what you want. Work has been really busy but happy to bring you all some more videos while I’m working, I just learned how to do a pretty fun technique today which I’ll share soon :D as always feel free to comment below with any questions or message me directly! #fyp #culinary #culinaryarts #culinaryskills #chef #cook #cooking #learn #learntocook #knife #knifeskills #skills #technique #basics #beginnercook #tutorial #teach #herbs #chiffonade #foodtok #cooktok

Final written exam! But not really hahaha. This was the last day before our practical exams where we took our written exam for a bit of the class and then were given the rest of the time to practice making vegetables and sauces for our final. A lot of people in class were hungry and didn’t really feel like making a mess of pots and pans because we didn’t have too much time, so me and a friend just decided to make some food for everyone. Making pasta is always simple and delicious and also helps me practice a bit for my final exam anyways so I had some fun just throwing together a tasty dish for people to enjoy :D Random day but still an important one for getting prepped and ready for our finals, hope you all enjoyed, and if you have any questions feel free to comment below or message me directly! #fyp #culinary #culinarystudent #culinaryschool #culinaryarts #chef #cook #cooking #food #test #exam #final #pasta #learn #learntocook #tasty #dayinthelife #foodtok #cooktok

Here’s a fun and easy culinary technique to make scallion curls! these are a great garnish for any dish you are making at home and look great too (Iwould suggest letting them curl longer than I did, I was in a rush hahaha). Just separate the tops from the bottoms, split and scrape put any goo, cut, stack, slice, and throw them in ice water to curl! Just wanted to mention again how the skills videos I share might not be 100% applicable for a lot of home cooking, I just share them because they’re all still interesting (or at least I hope so) or valuable to know! As always feel free to comment below with any questions or message me directly! Happy April :D #fyp #culinary #culinaryarts #chef #food #cook #cooking #knife #knifeskills #technique #skills #learn #learntocook #basics #beginner #beginnercook #tutorial #tips #scallions #cooktok #foodtok

day 103 @iceculinary is more advanced plating! this day we just all prepped a few components for each dish and then had full creative freedom to plate however we wanted. it was a very relaxed but fun day and I wanted to experiment with some other concepts of plating today. asymmetrical plating particularly focuses on the negative space on the plate to bring more visual appeal to the ingredients and flow of the dish, while the linear plating I attempted has more structure. overall not too bad especially with a limited set of ingredients but still definitely need tons of practice. very simple days winding down to the end of class, hope you’re excited for the last few days! (i am currently on my weekend :D) #fyp #culinary #culinaryarts #culinaryschool #culinarystudent #chef #food #cook #cooking #learn #learntocook #plating #vegetables #teach #dayinthelife

this is a demonstration from my chef Leif Evans @iceculinary on how to butcher a flounder that I thought had so much information in it (so i had to separate into two videos) and lots of techniques and teachings outside of just how to cut up some filets! In this Chef Leif shows us how to cut off the head of a fish without wasting any meat and giving us tips on how we should handle our ingredients and a fun fact about fish. as always feel free to comment below with any questions or message me directly! also let me know what you think about the 2 part video, I’m normally not an advocate for it, but Chef Leif throws in lots of facts and info while teaching that I didn’t want to just leave out! #fyp #culinary #culinaryarts #culinaryschool #culinarystudent #chef #food #cook #cooking #learn #learntocook #fish #butcher #lesson #teach

here’s all the equipment i bring to work every day! everything i show in this video is stuff i use most of the time and definitely need for work, but certainly changes depending on what type of restaurant or place you are working for! pretty typical equipment, i have my knives, some tools like a microplane, offset spatula, bench scraper, and the things i use most are definitely my tourné knife, chef knife, bench scraper, and tweezers! thought that maybe this video would give some insight into what one might need in a kitchen (not universal though) and sorry for the lack of videos! been really busy and my computer screen broke the other day so I have been trying to work around it hahaha. as always if you have any questions feel free to comment below or message me directly :D I am off to work with everything right now! #fyp #culinary #culinaryarts #culinarystudent #chef #cook #daily #essentials #tools #work #routine #morning #restaurant #knife #tips