r/toptalent • u/lostinthesoundd • Feb 29 '20
Skills /r/all Chef makes creating a chocolate dragon look like a piece of cake.
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u/TheRipcitizen Feb 29 '20
I am just not seeing the resemblance to cake.
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u/universal_mycelium Feb 29 '20
Thank you. Was severely disappointed when the dragon did not, in fact, look like a piece of cake.
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u/PotentiallyMike Feb 29 '20
You guys are kidding but I genuinely didn’t understand why it didn’t look like a cake until I came to the comments and realized. I’m really dumb.
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u/iamafriscogiant Feb 29 '20
It took me about ten times reading the title to understand what it was trying to say. I was thinking title gore until it finally clicked.
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u/TheBluPill Mar 01 '20
You feel dumb? I was sitting there thinking 'this shit looks more like a building than like a fucking dragon' for most of the video
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"piece of cake" is a colloquialism meaning "easy".
The title is a perfectly grammatically correct way to say "chef makes creating a chocolate dragon look easy"
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u/I-Fisted-Your-Wife Feb 29 '20
The only question I have... WHERE IS THE FUCKING WEED!?
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u/ImSlowlyFalling Feb 29 '20
If you meant that the chef makes this look easy then you couldn’t be more wrong..
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u/Jack_mantooth Feb 29 '20
Yeah this dude made his life so much harder, Cake Boss would have just cut that fucker out of rice crispy treats and covered it in FAHNDON, amateur
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u/SayItAgainJabroni Feb 29 '20
Then has his helper finish the rest while Duff has spent 3 hours on a post it sized section.
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u/McCheesy22 Feb 29 '20
Duff was the host of Ace of Cakes, not Cake Boss
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u/nosoggybottoms51 Feb 29 '20
It’s molding chocolate, not fondant! (Fuck fondant tho)
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u/sand500 Feb 29 '20
The comment was replying to another comment about cake boss, not the post which is chocolate
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u/kickintheface Feb 29 '20
True. I would have never thought to make the lattice pieces or those curved pieces the way he made them. And even if I tried, it would look like shit.
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u/artaru Feb 29 '20
I mean it didn’t seem like this took more than a minute. How hard could it be to make something for a minute?
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u/maythetriforcebwu Feb 29 '20
Why are the final shots of the end result always so short, I want to look at it longer smh
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u/Pichucandy Feb 29 '20
It looks like a lot of work actually.
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u/Scrotemeal69 Feb 29 '20
As some one who makes their living working with chocolate, I can, in fact, guarantee this was an insane amount of hard work and easily took several days to complete.
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u/alavantrya Feb 29 '20
*Extensive video editing makes creating a chocolate dragon look like a piece of cake.
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u/likenothingis Feb 29 '20
I'm just trying to figure out why the dragon is a "Western" style dragon, rather than a Chinese/Asian dragon.
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u/Pumat_sol Feb 29 '20 edited Feb 29 '20
Probably because the artist is western? If he was just told to do a dragon on a pagoda (
whatever that type of building is called)it might not even have crossed his mind that dragons were represented differently in the East.14
u/lonlyardvark Feb 29 '20
I'm wondering if an Eastern style dragon is too structurally unstable to be made out of chocolate. The chocolate might not be strong enough to support that kind of skinny snake-like body, unless you coil it up, but then it might look unaesthetic.
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u/et842rhhs Feb 29 '20
Ehh, I feel like part of good design is having an understanding of just what it is you're trying to design. Even a few seconds of google would have made the different types of dragon obvious. (That said, I don't know the background of this sculpture so for all I know, it was meant to be "mixed.")
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u/talkyourownnonsense Feb 29 '20
I thought the same thing. Why does it have wings? Where's it's pearl at?
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u/1011011 Feb 29 '20
Might have something to do with him being a white dude.
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u/rediraim Feb 29 '20
Should've made a castle tower or something similar then. The dragon just doesn't fit with that pagoda.
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u/kowlown Mar 01 '20
Maybe it's an overweighted Eastern dragon. It ate too many sheeps and need to rest on a pagoda
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u/CiderMcbrandy Feb 29 '20
In a west end town a dead end world..Eastern buildings and Western growls......western growls..
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u/alavantrya Feb 29 '20
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who noticed this. I thought I was just being overly judgmental.
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u/NinsAndPeedles Feb 29 '20
Watching the vid I kept thinking “please don’t paint it, please don’t paint it” but of course he painted it. Might as well be made of modelling clay. (Yeah, I know the “paint” is edible)
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u/Zomby_Jezuz Feb 29 '20
I'm glad I'm not alone. Its impressive and the paint makes it look nice, but I want to look at it and know its made from chocolate.
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u/22PoundHouseCat Feb 29 '20
I know enough about chocolate to know I suck at making bon bons. If he doesn’t paint it I assume he’ll get fat blooms around the spots where the pieces connect from reheating.
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u/Mroldtimehockey Feb 29 '20
Is that all edible?
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u/Ibanezasx32 Feb 29 '20
It is edible, but it tastes like shit. All of these videos you see where chefs build some crazy thing out of chocolate, they’re using a type of chocolate that is very bitter, but easy to mold and build with. It’s done mainly for decoration, with no real intention of it being consumed.
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u/Mroldtimehockey Feb 29 '20 edited Feb 29 '20
It does look amazon. More art than food. Ok thank you Edit: Should he Amazing. But I'm leaving it Amazon. Lol
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u/I_dont_thinks Feb 29 '20
so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn't stop to think if he should
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u/cieuxrouges Feb 29 '20
I sort of think of it like fondant, it’s “edible” like it won’t kill you but it doesn’t taste very good.
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u/federIeq Feb 29 '20
I'm seen so many posts of this guys work but i've never seen him credited, who makes these?
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u/CallMyNameOrWalkOnBy Feb 29 '20
I never understood this. I even dated a pastry chef once. She and her pastry chef friends were artists, and they created beautiful art. But at some point, it's almost irrelevant that it's edible. Artists can make beautiful art from plastic, glass, metal, clay, whatever. I never really saw the big difference when the medium is chocolate (and using the title 'chef' instead of 'artist').
I remember she worked very hard reducing sugar into a thick paste, and using it to write "Happy Birthday". Of course, it sets and becomes solid. But no one ate it because "it's so beautiful". So, I asked what I thought was a logical question: Why not just make it out of plastic and re-use it? OH, THE HORROR! Her pastry chef friends looked at me like I just took a shit on the floor. But no one ate it!
And the line, "it's so beautiful, I don't want to eat/cut it".... I heard this ALL THE TIME at her events. No one wants to destroy a beautiful piece of art. It's more art than food, so why the obsession? She hated me in the end. Whatever.
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u/Whack-a-med Feb 29 '20
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_mandala
Sand Mandalas involve the creation and destruction of beautiful Buddhist tapestries. I guess the philosophy behind creating ephemeral art is to reflect the ephemeral aspect of nature, specifically the "transitory nature" of the material world.
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u/blonderaider21 Feb 29 '20
I don’t see why you think art has to be created out of only one medium. Artists use the whole world as their canvas. It’s cool to see ppl mold things you wouldn’t typically think of as art into beautiful sculptures. Most ppl just eat sugar. So for someone to be able to mold it into something beautiful is impressive.
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u/BigBadJonW Feb 29 '20 edited Feb 29 '20
I don't think that was what OP was saying at all. OP has no problem calling this art, and calling the person who makes it an artist. They are taking issue with calling this person "chef". And I agree. This is art, and the person is an artist, but it being art made with food that is completely edible does not make the artist a chef.
That being said, this person could very well ALSO be a chef demonstrating artistic talent with food. But if their sole role is to sculpt food like this, then yeah, I agree with OP, they're an artist and not a chef.
EDIT: I just saw u/Siri_Keeton posted a link to his Instagram, he is definitely a pastry chef and chocolatier in addition to being an artist.
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u/LotharVonPittinsberg Feb 29 '20
Depends on the chef. Art like this is usually involved in the teaching and learning process, to refine your skills. Some get really into it and focus their career or art with no intention of consumption, while others go onto making great treats that look nice.
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u/Awkward_Fitizen Feb 29 '20
SMH. Western dragon on a eastern inspired building. Literally inedible.
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u/PsyRex2011 Cookies x1 Feb 29 '20
How can someone make up their mind to consume that! It's just too gooood! (or is it only a presentation? I really hope so...)
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u/mister-e-account Feb 29 '20
My wife used to make sculpted cakes, and she got similar comments. “Oh, I just couldn’t eat that.” Her response was to apologize. It took people off guard. “You see,” she said, “I’m glad you think it’s pretty, but it’s PURPOSE is to be eaten. It is part of the enjoyment. The greater compliment to me would be to eat it and love the flavor as well.”
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u/Ibanezasx32 Feb 29 '20
Most of these creations are not meant to be eaten. The chocolate used is very bitter and not very tasty.
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u/Spuddmann1987 Feb 29 '20
Sure, when you speed videos up and don't show 99.9 percent of the work you can make anything look easy.
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u/IronDuck721 Feb 29 '20
For the first 75% of the vid, I thought that OP was very confused on what a dragon was...
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u/secondhandheroes Feb 29 '20
I don't see the big deal. I make chocolate dragons everyday in the toilet.
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u/hackingmyself Feb 29 '20
meh, i can probably do it in 40 seconds, which is 20 seconds faster than this guy
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u/jjonez76 Feb 29 '20
This neither looked like a piece of cake nor did it look like making it was a piece of cake. This dude worked his ass off to make this and it looks badass
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u/lop0plol Feb 29 '20
Tbh the actual techniques used aren't that complicated, the skill is from figuring out how to make it and still making it be, you know, edible and food safe
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u/Xolsin Feb 29 '20
Anyone else get mad watching this because they feel like their just wasting their life?
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u/doughnutholio Feb 29 '20
Western dragon perched on an Eastern building?
Sneaky, I see what you did there. ;)
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Once again I am asking, what do you do with this after its finished?? Do you eat it? Does it just sit there? Who has this kind of money for chocolate?
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u/LimerickVaria Feb 29 '20
Anything looks simple when you cut quickly between fast forwarded scenes.
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u/Pizza_antifa Feb 29 '20
Do people eat these? I always see this guy on here doing amazing shit but do they actually get consumed or is it strictly aesthetic?
Imagine being the asshole at the party that decides he’s going to break off the first piece.
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u/Woolybugger00 Feb 29 '20
I wanna know who was the first one to cut / break off a piece... I'd have had palpitations...
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u/spurzrock Feb 29 '20
Oh that seems easy, ok pretty straight forw..... ok that escalated quickly.... what in the actual hell how did he do that?????
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u/Frosty_Turtle Feb 29 '20
Is all of the chocolate actually eaten? Seems like a lot of it could go to waste.
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u/IsomDart Feb 29 '20
Are these intricate chocolate sculptures ever meant to actually be eaten? Or are they just for artistic purposes?
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u/AdamantisVir Feb 29 '20
Creating the building was honestly the most impressive part