Product Details

• Actors: Chef Ray Duey
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000H87OXQ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #196,834 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Chef Ray Duey demonstrates 23 fruit and vegetable carvings is this Fruit Carving DVD with easy to follow step-by-step instruction. Executive Chef Duey also shows how to combine individual carvings to form larger floral type arrangements. The DVD begins with a foundation of the basics and quickly moves to more advanced carving techniques and pieces, making it a must have for all levels of carvers. Carvings cover: Tomato Rose, Radish Flower, Cantelope Dahlia, Cantelope Spirals, Leek Ribbon Flowers, Honeydew Melon Swans, Advanced Melon Carving, Pineapple Rose and more. Chef Ray Duey is a Certified Executive Chef through the American Culinary Federation. He has been teaching culinary arts since 1985 to professionals chefs, caterers and individuals. Also see his Chef Garnish Presents The Expanded World of Fruit and Vegetable Sculpting DVD http://www.amazon.com/Garnish-Presents-Expanded-Vegetable-Sculpting/dp/B004CACJYO/

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Learning Experience, July 2, 2008

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PKS "Laughing Buddha" (Willoughby, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fruit & Vegetable Sculpting DVD (DVD)

A great instructional video. A great beginner to advance. Showed me some tricks I never learnt before. I didn't rate it 5 star because some of the lighting and angle was not that great. Too much reflection on the subject. A great instructor showing detailed works.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Very Helpful, January 15, 2010

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Bethany W. (MI) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Fruit & Vegetable Sculpting DVD (DVD)

I bought this in order to teach myself watermelon carving, which was shown near the end of the DVD. I got a kick out of watching this, because during the first 20 minutes or so, Mr. Duey lacks a script and makes the same motions with his hands over and over (he also repeats himself occasionally). At first it was a little slow, but when the actual carving began it was a lot easier to watch. There's also a pretty funny part where the camera zooms in and out for no apparent reason.

Overall, though, Chef Duey gets his point across. He made the carving techniques easy to understand. I got the DVD three weeks ago, and can already do some of it on potatoes. (Watermelons aren't exactly in season.) Mr. Duey is a professional chef, not a cooking show host, but if you are willing to overlook the DVD's few technical errors, he delivers.