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Tourne

NeroW

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Chef/Writer Spencer

Chef/Writer Spencer

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I start the tourne routine in October...The first five hundred always suck...But then I realize that if I cut the barrell from the top, like you'd do a honeydew or cantelope it's incredibly easy. Just cut em like you cut fruit for those sexy fruit platters that no one eats.

Andy Lynes

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I do this quite a bit at home. I know it's old fashioned, but I love the way tuned veggies look in a Navarin of Lamb or an Irish stew. I find the bird's beak knife essential for turning, I wouldn't attempt it without one. I don't worry too much about the seven sides though as no tutor or head chef is going to kick my butt if I get it wrong.

Chef/Writer Spencer

Chef/Writer Spencer

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After toiling away in the buffet world for two years I have no interest in swans carved out of watermelons, eyes pinned to their faces with black olives, tails fastened with cloves. That the kind of "sexy" fruit plate I was referencing. Now, a nice plate of perfectly ripe fruit no matter what it may be will always replace a tongue to my ear.

maggiethecat

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Really Nice, Hanon "composed" finger-dexterity exercises for the piano.  The name of the Hanon book I trained from is "The Virtuoso Pianist."

Nero, m'Dear:

I had managed to expunge Hanon from my memory...and now, it's flooding back in all its horror. Mme. Dumoulin, my piano teacher, was a Hanon true believer. You owe me a beer for this one!

Good work, my Valkyrie culinary student. You'll be telling your grandchild:

"Yes, little Thor, back in the old days we tourneed with a knife! !"

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elyse

elyse

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Now, a nice plate of perfectly ripe fruit no matter what it may be will always replace a tongue to my ear.

:huh:

fimbul

fimbul

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Now, a nice plate of perfectly ripe fruit no matter what it may be will always replace a tongue to my ear.

:huh:

I don't get it either. But I'm damned if I'll ever let him near my fruit basket. :biggrin:

A jumped-up pantry boy who never knew his place.

Chef/Writer Spencer

Chef/Writer Spencer

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I get really, really, seduced by a good meal. Of course, there's nothing like the soft skin of a woman, the scent, the electricity...but food activates many of the same receptors for me. That's why I'm so passionate about it, why I rant and complain like an attention starved teenager when people act like they're more interested in the peripheral concerns like presentation, atmosphere, and snob appeal. Eating high quality food while in the company of a beautiful woman is the ultimate form of Dionysian pleasure for me. I'm a Scorpio through and through. Bring me Dwan and a fat leg of lamb.

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NeroW

NeroW

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I'd rather sit down with a nice plate of fruit than be seduced by a siren...

Well, who wouldn't?

EDIT to say: and who are you calling a siren, loudmouth? :raz:

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Noise is music. All else is food.

NeroW

NeroW

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Tourne competency rapidly approaching . . . much late-night semi-drunken cursing and throwing bits of potato off balcony . . . but if I do say so myself, I'm getting better. I have 2 more lbs. of potatoes to work through tomorrow, then I'm offering it up to God.

Noise is music. All else is food.

zilla369

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Tourne competency rapidly approaching . . . much late-night semi-drunken cursing and throwing bits of potato off balcony . . . but if I do say so myself, I'm getting better.  I have 2 more lbs. of potatoes to work through tomorrow, then I'm offering it up to God.

I hereby sprinkle competency fairy-dust on your knife hand. Any other cuts, or just the tourne?

Marsha Lynch aka "zilla369"

Has anyone ever actually seen a bandit making out?

Uh-huh: just as I thought. Stereotyping.

NeroW

NeroW

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Tourne competency rapidly approaching . . . much late-night semi-drunken cursing and throwing bits of potato off balcony . . . but if I do say so myself, I'm getting better.  I have 2 more lbs. of potatoes to work through tomorrow, then I'm offering it up to God.

I hereby sprinkle competency fairy-dust on your knife hand. Any other cuts, or just the tourne?

Thank you. My Chef sprinkled fairy dust on me in Friday's class . . . if by "fairy dust" you mean "a handful of flour."

We've already done the competencies on our other cuts. He's put away the ruler. He was kind, though, and saved the tourne for the end of the semester. :wacko:

Noise is music. All else is food.

Lady T

Lady T

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:biggrin:

More power to you all; I can get the football shape with my paring knife, but not in any stinkin' seven sides. More like 22 by the time I get a semi-respectable (and embarrassingly small) shape!

Awhile back on one of the Cooking with Claudine TV episodes, I did see Pepin demonstrate the cut on some cucumbers, which were cooked to go with salmon. Also saw him do the same on one of the Julia's Kitchen episodes -- when Pepin had finished his own faultless example, Julia Child looked at her own lopsided attempt and promptly ate it.

I should probably practice more.

:biggrin:

Me, I vote for the joyride every time.

-- 2/19/2004

NeroW

NeroW

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Also saw him do the same on one of the Julia's Kitchen episodes -- when Pepin had finished his own faultless example, Julia Child looked at her own lopsided attempt and promptly ate it.

I love her.

Noise is music. All else is food.

inventolux

inventolux

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Some chef was probably upset at his commis and told him to waste his entire day carving footballs out of beets. Thus the tourne was born.

I believe if one is going to do something (like a tourne), then go all the way!

Dodecahedron of coffee flavored ice cubes anyone?

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NeroW

NeroW

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Good news:

8 out of 10 on the appearance of my cuts.

Noise is music. All else is food.

zilla369

zilla369

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Good news:

8 out of 10 on the appearance of my cuts.

Way to go, Nero. I'll bet nobody (or hardly anyone) got a 10 out of 10.

Marsha Lynch aka "zilla369"

Has anyone ever actually seen a bandit making out?

Uh-huh: just as I thought. Stereotyping.

Jinmyo

Jinmyo

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Good news:

8 out of 10 on the appearance of my cuts.

Congratulations.

"I've caught you Richardson, stuffing spit-backs in your vile maw. 'Let tomorrow's omelets go empty,' is that your fucking attitude?" -E. B. Farnum

"Behold, I teach you the ubermunch. The ubermunch is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: the ubermunch shall be the meaning of the earth!" -Fritzy N.

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NeroW

NeroW

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Good news:

8 out of 10 on the appearance of my cuts.

Way to go, Nero. I'll bet nobody (or hardly anyone) got a 10 out of 10.

Actually, no one did. Most of us got 8's.

I think our Chef just writes numbers down, randomly.

He did say I was doing better. Good enough for me.

Thanks everyone for your tips and virtual support. :wub:

Noise is music. All else is food.

hollywood

hollywood

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Thanks everyone for your tips and virtual support.  :wub:

Hey! I was behind you all the way. (But out of range of your knife.)

I'm hollywood and I approve this message.

pjs

pjs

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He's put away the ruler. 

Always a good sign. I hate having my knuckles rapped.

PJ

"Epater les bourgeois."

--Lester Bangs via Bruce Sterling

(Dori Bangs)

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