Chocdoc and Friends Munch Michigan

[lemniscate]

2 hours ago, teonzo said:

 

Everything impressive! These are my favourites.

 

 

 

Teo

 

Mine too!  If those are raspberry and dark chocolate, I will just swoon and die.  Raspberry + chocolate is paradise to me.

Edited March 9, 2020 by lemniscate
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[curls]

11 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:

 

 

 

All the photos of your class, WOW! Just WOW!  The classroom space, the lunches, Ana, the puppy dog, the list of fillings, the techniques! Thank you so much for sharing with us. Sounds like this course exceeded all of your expectations.

 

I'm still going back to the photos and trying to figure out how some of these were done! I'm really curious about how the effects were achived on the concrete chocolates.

 

Saw Kerry's EZ Temper taking center stage in a few photos. Had Luis worked with it before? I imagine you have won another pastry chef over to the joys of EZ Temper silk.  🙂

[Kerry Beal]

It would be fair to say he is a convert!

[kayb]

Those chocolates are just stunning!

 

[Tri2Cook]

19 hours ago, Kerry Beal said:

May I just say that we all became so attached to this man and his family in the past 3 days that we were all pretty much in tears when we left.

In a thread full of amazing food and beautiful chocolate work, that one line tells me all I'd need to know about the man and his family. 

[Kerry Beal]

 

So this morning before we all left - we had to reduce the leftovers a bit so we had some iberico ham, the cheeses from Zingerman's and toast made from the Forkish bread.

 

 

 

 

 

@jbates had some spag bol with meatballs to finish off. 

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

Just before crossing the border I stopped at the A&W and tried their cheese curds - hmmm

 

 

 

[Kerry Beal]

There were a couple of tools that we all decided we needed (wanted) after our time with Luis. The first was a Westcott aluminum ruler with a silicone grip. Another was some silicone mascara brushes. 

 

Michael's proved the source for the rulers - I found mine en route, @Gwbyls and @YetiChocolates found theirs in South Bend I believe. The mascara brushes required a bit more work - a couple of different beauty supply places before I found a source. 

 

 

[Jim D.]

On 3/8/2020 at 11:26 PM, Kerry Beal said:

 

May I just say that we all became so attached to this man and his family in the past 3 days that we were all pretty much in tears when we left. 

 

Some beautiful work. Hard to believe you learned and accomplished all that in such a short time. I am especially impressed and intrigued by the two stone effects in the designs in this photo. I've never seen anything like it. If it's permitted and not unethical to share his techniques, can you give an idea of how it was done? I also love the mold.

[Kerry Beal]

Only hint

 

 

 

[Tri2Cook]

12 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

Only hint

 

 

 

If the more rock-like texture is really as simple as I've come up with from your hint, I hate my brain's lack of creativity because that one's been right in my face for a long time. The kid uses basically the same idea for certain types of texturing with her sculpture work. 

[YetiChocolates]

I realized I didn’t post a couple days of food photos 🤭. So here they are...

 

last night in MI dinner of fish & chips and a beer flight. Both were good but filling! Only ate one piece of fish and some fries (admittedly I ate a lot of chocolates beforehand 🤣)

 

The next day at O’Hare I had a Kale & Quinoa salad at Wolfgang Pucks...it was meh. Nothing too exciting 

 

When I made it back to Seattle I had some Pho at Pho Bac with a friend. It was excellent. @Gwbyls and I usually get Pho when we are together but MI was a bit lacking in this option...so I had it Seattle and thought of Gaylene 😉

[Kerry Beal]

Well - it's only taken until now - but I'm finally trying to consolidate what I learned in Michigan back in March. It's taken 3 weeks to go from getting molds decorated, to shelling, to filling and finally backing off today. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[ElsieD]

Those are gorgeous.

[JeanneCake]

Wow.  Just, wow! ❤️

[DesertTinker]

@Kerry BealThese look more like jewelry than edibles. Amazing!!

[Rajala]

Not sure if I should create a new thread or bump this, but you can see what I went with.

 

I'm considering taking a class with Luis later this year. It's around $1500 (USD), so it's not an impulse thing. How was it to learn from Luis. I guess he's a pretty good teacher since he's working with it full time as I understand it?

[Kerry Beal]

He's fabulous to learn from! and he's a really sweet guy. 

 

You'll take home a lot of neat ideas and start to use all sorts of interesting tools to get the effect you are after. 

Edited March 25 by Kerry Beal (log)