Video recipes for the smallest food. Culinary miniature - modeling toy food with your own hands from various materials Sandwich with black caviar and cheese

Recipes according to which children “cook” mini-food in toy dishes are of little interest to anyone, except only their parents. Otherwise, if recipes for miniature dishes are presented on YouTube channel in the form of attractive animated videos, as does 24-year-old Californian Jay Baron. In them, he demonstrates the masterly preparation of tiny, but really edible dishes. His art is international, understandable and attracts the attention of people from all over the world: in just a year, the Baron gained about half a million subscribers.

When Jay Baron (Jay Baron) decided to become a blogger on the YouTube channel, but for some time he could not decide on the topic. The decision came to him when, rummaging through the pantry, he came across a souvenir - an old cast-iron mini-stove left over from his grandfather. This led him to the idea of ​​creating a cooking show in which he would cook mini-food. Acquiring the appropriate miniature dishes and the same midget kitchen equipment (half of which he made by himself), Jay began to make videos with recipes for various popular dishes, presented in miniature form.
The first video recipe called " Mini Spaghetti!" he published in March 2016. As a result, the video gained more than 700 thousand views on FB and YT.

Agree, the process of cooking miniature food is striking in its realism, and tiny products and kitchen utensils give it a cheerful, slightly fabulous color.
A funny form of videos like absolutely everyone. Children enjoy watching how water boils on a mini-stove in a tiny saucepan, and how something is fried in a tiny frying pan, and adults admire the full compliance of the prepared mini-food with its real recipes in the “real world”. Therefore, Jay Baron's videos are very popular. For example, recipes for miniature dishes " Eggs with bacon" and " Pie have several million views.

MINI BACON & EGGS

By the way, the author of funny short films does not consider them works of art. " I consider myself a storyteller, says Baron. I just tell people interesting stories I'm trying to please them with these videos.. .". And he seems to be quite successful at it. Although, apart from ten years of experience as an artist and a couple of unfinished courses, the young man has no special education in this area.

MINI CAKE

Gradually, Jay gathered a whole series of colorfully edited videos, where he cooks mini-food according to recipes different countries peace. True, in his case, it is more correct to say - the microworld. And from this, the process of preparing familiar dishes looks so amazing and bewitching. Moreover, regardless of the complexity - whether it's an ordinary omelette, lasagna or apple pie.

MINI OMELETTE

MINI LASAGNA

MINI APPLE PIE

Video recipes of miniature copies of dishes from around the world became the basis of the Internet resource " Walking With Giants". But its young author admits:

I created the Walk with Giants channel to bring people in, to entertain them, but it should be a springboard for the bigger projects that I want to create on the channel in the future. Walking With Giants won't be showing off mini food forever. I have much bigger plans for him.".

While creating this kind of video graphics with mini food, Jay is certainly not the pioneer of this "kawaii" style. (Kawaii (可愛い) - translated from Japanese means charming, cute, adorable). The style originated in the 70s in Japan, and became part of Japanese pop culture. He affected appearance toys, clothes, food and even demeanor. Elements of kawaii can be found anywhere among the Japanese - in government publications, public service announcements, in institutions, shops, and transport.
But it is this infantile-looking aesthetic that attracts the Western, pragmatic viewer. For them, this is an element of show and fairy tale at the same time. This is an opportunity for a minute or two to return to the world of childhood. And Jay gives his audience such an opportunity - mini-food recipes on his video are more like an animation loved by everyone.
In conclusion, please note that the videos are shown accompanied by stylish soundtracks from such popular music artists and groups as ProleteR, Mr. Woox, Jesse James, Floppy Circus, etc.

Love to cook beautiful meals but don't want to spend a lot of time in the kitchen? Then pay attention to this hobby.

Cooking miniature is a hobby that is ideal for those who see creativity in cooking, and not just the process of cooking. Looking at many times reduced copies of vegetables, desserts, snacks and hot dishes, you just want to put them in your mouth - pizzas, sandwiches and cakes are so believable that the digestive system works on a subconscious level. However, toy food for dolls is absolutely safe for the figure!

What is inedible food made of?

To sculpt food in a reduced size, you can use almost any material:

• with and without baking;
• plasticine of any kind;
• paper.

We have already talked about each of these types of modeling in detail, so we will not repeat ourselves. If these types of needlework are not familiar to you, follow the links. There you will also find recipes for preparing mass and features of working with it.

The most popular among creative natures is the modeling of culinary miniatures from polymer clay. The advantage is in simplicity - the material is already ready, does not require kneading and staining, easily acquires hardness (especially self-hardening plastic), and is stored for a long time. Ready-made souvenirs are not afraid of moisture and are not fragile - they can be used as key chains, fridge magnets and souvenirs.

Salty dough and cold porcelain attract by cost - you can cook from what is in the kitchen. Working with such raw materials is, of course, more difficult, but no less exciting. By learning how to mix shades, you will get believable foods, fruits and dishes.

Plasticine is an affordable and easy-to-work material, but such crafts are not stored for long and quickly lose their gloss, becoming covered with dust. We recommend starting the development of a new type of needlework with him. With a slight consumption of cheap plasticine, you will learn all the necessary techniques and acquire the skills of sculpting toy food with your own hands, which you will successfully transfer to the train to create “sweets” from more expensive plastic.

How to learn how to create mini-food

Modeling a culinary miniature is not accidentally singled out as a separate direction, because not every craftsman who creates jewelry and decor items from plastic can create a copy of a banana, a cut orange, a bun, a sandwich, scrambled eggs or ice cream. Here, as in another hobby associated with miniatures - it is important to observe the proportions in each line.

The masters working in this popular technique have their own secrets for obtaining various effects. For example, to make cheese with holes, polymer clay is mixed with salt; during baking, the salt evaporates, leaving holes characteristic of real cheese.

Miniature salt dough crafts are only dried outdoors, as they are too small to be heated. In extreme cases, you can put the products next to the battery, but in no case use the oven. I coat the salt dough rolls with varnish, adjusting the intensity so as to get the shine that pies and buns from a professional pastry chef can boast of.

How to learn to sculpt doll food? Get inspired by photos to get started. experienced craftsmen, see how they breathe life into plastic and make plasticine juicy and appetizing. Every detail is important - there is no need to strive for perfection, in a real fruit there is always a small natural flaw that emphasizes its natural origin, and a pancake cannot have perfectly even edges.

To get maximum similarity, it is important:

• carefully approach the choice of color - the more shades of the same tone, the more natural the toy food will turn out;
• clearly observe the proportions not only in one product, but also in those that are planned to be placed side by side;
• acquire tools to help create subtle details - barely noticeable stripes, dots, dents;
• sculpt group crafts in parts, but do not strive to make all apples or oranges the same size and type - let everyone be individual, because twins are rare in nature.

Start with simple cooking miniatures that don't need a lot of color. Start with tea cups and saucers, a piece of cheese, or a banana. You can draw ideas from nature or in photographs. A good direction for beginners is confectionery: pies, cakes, gingerbread. There is always room for imagination and creativity.

July 14, 2016, 11:58

Hello dear Gossips!
Today I would like to tell you about the Miniature Food Artist - Stephanie Kilgast ( Stephanie Kilgast) . I learned about it from the Food Network channel. I am a big fan of the Food Network channel, where you can get inspired by the skills of famous chefs, learn new recipes for cooking (some of them have been quite successful in life), and learn about such unusual masters as Stephanie Kilgast. There are also artists who create celebrity portraits with products whose work is impressive, although I do not quite understand what the essence of such creativity is. Probably uniqueness.
In brief videos shown on the Food Network, Stephanie admits that miniature creations are her passion, an activity that requires perseverance, patience, and a lot of time. I was amazed that Stephanie was able to turn her hobby and passion into a serious business of her whole life, not everyone can do this, I think. Her tenacity and talent are undeniably admirable.

Stephanie creates tiny 1:12 scale replicas of various dishes from painted polymer clay.

Despite the diminutive size, the realism and level of detail is amazing. Her tiny masterpieces look fresh and appetizing and differ from the original only in size. Stephanie's works have found wide recognition among collectors (what dollhouse can do without a kitchen and a set table), as well as lovers of non-standard jewelry, because many miniatures are made in the form of rings, earrings and pendants (checked their cost on the site - 20€).

Sweet table :) I would not refuse such sweets.

Stephanie at work

Stephanie was born in 1985 in Frankfurt, Germany to an international family (German mother, Finnish father). Now he lives and works in France in the city of Vannes in western Brittany. He is fluent in English, French and German and holds a master's degree in architecture. In 2007, during the summer holidays, out of boredom, she began to sculpt miniature food products from polymer clay, not assuming that an unexpected hobby would become a life's work.

English breakfast

Cheese plate

The origins of this hobby come from childhood, when little Stephanie created furniture and clay food for her favorite Barbie doll. The first work made of polymer clay was a bread baguette, and now there are about 600 of them - cakes, vegetables and fruits, various pastries, meat and fish dishes. In 2008, her blog and online store PetitPlat appeared online.

Creating one dish takes about three hours of painstaking work with a magnifying glass. But the result is always beyond praise, not without reason such publications as the New York Times and The Telegraph wrote about her work, and exhibitions were held not only in France, but in Chile and China. At less than 30 years old, Stephanie is a recognized polymer clay artisan who has published a textbook book called Repas de fête en miniature in two languages, English and French.

Seafood

Sushi rolls

Fruits and vegetables. Everything looks very appetizing.

24-year-old French artist Stephanie Kilgas creates 1:12 scale miniature food models that look exactly like the original. She uses scalpels, blades, toothpicks and polymer clay to create her delicacies. Stephanie made her first miniature in 2007, and today her collection includes more than 600 dishes.

1. Continental breakfast: croissants with butter and jam and black coffee. (Stephanie Kilgast/Barcroft USA)

2. . Stephanie creates her creations from polymer clay using scalpels, razor blades, utility knives and toothpicks. One such job takes up to three hours. The first miniature was created in 2007. (Stephanie Kilgast/Barcroft USA)

3. Chocolate eclairs, profiteroles and cakes. Details are made of simple acrylic paint. (Stephanie Kilgast/Barcroft USA)

4. Traditional English breakfast: eggs, bacon, sausages, beans and lots of toast. For an exquisite design, Stephanie has to turn to a magnifying glass for help. (Stephanie Kilgast/Barcroft USA)

5. Baskets of pears next to a nickel for comparison. Starting in 2007, Stephanie has already made about 600 models of cakes, baked goods, meat products and other "goodies". (Stephanie Kilgast/Barcroft USA)

6. She sells her work online. “I started this class without a specific goal, after finishing my drawing lessons,” says Stephanie, who lives in this moment in France. (Stephanie Kilgast/Barcroft USA)

7. “I just wanted to explore the world of miniature art and my focus was food. Gradually I liked it and I started selling them.” (Stephanie Kilgast/Barcroft USA)

8. Stephanie started working on her mini-masterpieces out of boredom during summer holidays. (Stephanie Kilgast/Barcroft USA)

9. “It can take a long time to create a buffet with miniature sweets. But if I make a regular breakfast tray, it takes about three hours.” (Stephanie Kilgast/Barcroft USA)

10. Recently, Stephanie began to make earrings and clips out of her masterpieces. (Stephanie Kilgast/Barcroft USA)

11. Stephanie's main clients are dollhouse lovers. (Stephanie Kilgast/Barcroft USA)

Every girl has a Monster High or Barbie doll today. Her favorite toy also has clothes, a house, furniture and even toy dishes. But there is no puppet food on small plates. There is a suggestion to make delicious polymer clay miniatures for Monster High or for the Russian doll Masha.

Where to look for ideas

What can be "cooked" from polymer clay? Let's answer in one word - everything. Precisely any miniature food that your heart desires. If the dolls share your culinary passions, then take on the preparation of your favorite dishes:

• miniature vegetables or fruits;
• soups and side dishes, salads;
• chicken with a crispy crust or fish with sauce;
• miniature sweets - cakes, cookies, muffins and pastries, an abundance of sweets and ice cream;
• perhaps you have never tried sushi, but the doll loves Japanese cuisine;
• or you want to feed them something delicious, dishes that every gourmet wants to try at least once in their life, etc.

Today you can find any colors and shades of plastic on sale, the material can be soft and hard, slightly transparent or not, have a pearly sheen, shine, glow in the dark. In addition, any color of polymer clay can be mixed with each other to get a new, desired shade.

Plastic is easily kneaded in the hands, and then the necessary products are molded from it. It happens polymer clay baked - then the finished craft will need to be put in the oven for a while and baked so that it becomes strong and firm. There is also a variant of self-hardening plastics. Products from it do not need to be baked.

To find inspiration and stock up on experience, it is better to start by viewing examples or master classes of real masters of their craft, because their miniature food for dolls is so realistic that you will have an irresistible desire to eat everything at once.

Among such masters are the artists Shai (Shee) Aaron, Gale and Eileen Tucker, Kivu Atkinson. Some of them make their polymer clay crafts according to old recipes, making miniature dishes that were served at the table, for example, in the time of King George or Louis, in the Victorian era, etc.

A culinary miniature made of polymer clay requires patience, perseverance and jewelry precision in detail, since the products are so tiny that they can fit on your fingertips. But the result is worth all the effort - real product masterpieces come out from under the hands of the master, which are always unique and inimitable in their own way.

To work with thermoplastics, you need double-sided stacks of different sizes and shapes, a rolling pin for rolling clay, a knife and other improvised tools and materials. Special ovens are sold in craft stores for firing products. You can also use the usual kitchen, which after work must be washed. Do not bake polymer clay miniatures in the microwave.

We bring to your attention simple master classes, with the help of which you can easily and quickly join this interesting and exciting work.

miniature vegetables

1. In order for Monster High to have polymer clay food in the kitchen, you need the clay itself (orange and green), stacks and scissors.
2. First we roll a ball out of orange plastic, and then we make a cone out of it. This is the future carrot for the doll.
3. The same cone, but we roll it smaller from green plastic.
4. We cut the future tops into four leaves and straighten them with a stack.
5. In the orange cone at the end, we push a shallow dent and insert the tops there.
6. To make the carrot look natural, you need to make shallow dashes.
7. Well, the carrot is ready - the most useful vegetable for Monster High.

A slightly different technique is used to make corn on the cob. The core is formed from green clay. You can use improvised material. We roll a long tourniquet from yellow plastic and wind it onto the core with a dense spiral. Draw a stack of longitudinal stripes. Cut out thin green leaves and wrap them around the cob.

Food for dolls is very diverse. You can treat Monster High with cakes, pastries and multi-layered sandwiches. But, in order to maintain such a thin waist as hers, it is still better and healthier to eat vegetables and fruits.

Culinary miniature "Roast with vegetables"

Operating procedure:

1. We cut out two circles from a white layer of clay with a diameter of 4.5 and 5.5 cm, 2 mm thick. We impose a larger circle on a smaller one, press the middle part, forming the middle of the plate.
2. We make cucumbers. We take 4 pieces of clay the size of hazelnuts of different colors and roll out layers of 1 mm thick from them: light green is the core, greenish and white is the cucumber pulp around the core, dark green is the skin.
3. We make a light green sausage (length - 2.5 cm), wrap it with the remaining three layers in sequence, as shown in the diagram. We crush the future cucumber so that on the cut it is not round, but oval. We put it in polyethylene for 10 minutes in the refrigerator. Next, we form the tail of the cucumber. Cut off 4 circles and put them all together on a plate.
4. On the other side of the dish we put an onion made of 3 thin sausages and a small onion made of white plastic. We create mashed potatoes from a mixture of yellow and white clay. We form depressions on its surface, sprinkle with “fried onions” (scraps of a mixture of orange, green and brown plastic).
5. Cut the carrots from the orange sausage into strips and throw them in a bunch on the same plate. We make roast from caramel-colored clay, glue a dark brown strip on top. The shape of the roast can be taken any way, in large or small pieces. We bake the dish in the oven, then varnish the vegetables and the rim of the plate.

Miniature fruits and berries

We cut the yellow clay into equal pieces and roll balls out of them. We roll them into cones, forming a banana. At the very tip we stick a little bit of green clay and smear the edges. We connect several bananas in a bunch. Cut off the excess and blacken the end of the cut.

1. Fold white, yellow and red clay tightly and roll into a thin sheet.
2. Roll a tight tube lengthwise and form a brick. Cut it across and insert white thin plates into the cuts. Cut in half lengthwise and shape them into two halves of a polymer clay berry.
3. In the same way, make a plate out of three colors (beige, yellow and white), twist it, form a cone and insert the berries inside. Slice strawberries into thin slices.

Polymer clay oranges

Beautiful food for dolls with your own hands is obtained if you work out a few simple tricks. For example, an orange can be made using three colors of clay: white, orange and yellow.

1. Roll up orange sausages, cut them lengthwise, insert yellow clay into the cut and roll again.
2. Wrap the sausages in a thin white plate and flatten slightly on one side.
3. Put 8 sausages together, wrap them again with a white clay plate, and then with an orange one.
4. Roll a long orange over a ribbed surface for a citrus peel effect.
5. Cut the orange into slices, drawing a pattern on them with a stack.

lemon wedges

We use 3 colors of polymer clay:

• White Fimo classic
• Translucent Yellow Fimo Effect
• Yellow PREMO Sculpey

Bread and sandwiches in miniature

Take a piece of bread-colored polymer clay and roll into a ball and then into a sausage. Stack the strips. A loaf, carrot or banana is food for dolls that is not difficult to make. It is somewhat more difficult to make, for example, berries in a section.

Sandwich with black caviar and cheese

Operating procedure:

1. From a layer of dark brown clay we form a slice of bread. With the help of a toothpick, we give it a relief structure. From the green layer we form a leaf of lettuce. In 3-4 places we pinch its edges with our fingers, slightly crush the leaf, giving it a waviness. Put the salad on the prepared slice.
2. From the yellow layer we cut out a rectangle of cheese with a thickness of about 3 mm. We make holes in the cheese with a knife or special molds. We form a half of an egg from pieces of white and yellow clay and put it together with cheese on bread. Next, put the sandwich to bake. When it cools down, we smear the middle of the lettuce leaf with transparent glue and pour a small amount of black beads on it, which plays the role of caviar. Your delicious sandwich is ready!

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miniature sweets

Polymer clay cupcake

For a cupcake, you will need a small ball of brown clay. Flatten it on one side so it can stand up like a cupcake. Then, with the knife up, make shallow strokes imitating traces of corrugated paper (like real cupcakes). Now make icing for it - roll out a piece of clay of any bright color with a rolling pin and put the resulting cake with wavy edges on the base. Smooth so that the edges look down. You can also make another layer of glaze of a different color and a slightly smaller diameter. Top with a cherry or multi-colored sprinkles. Ready product can be covered with clear varnish.

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Sweet rolls

After such a cupcake, it may be too early to sculpt cakes, but for rolls and other cakes - just right. Knead the white and yellow pieces of clay. Roll them into rectangles (smaller white, larger yellow). Put a rectangle of yellow plastic, and on it - white, then slowly roll them into a roll (use tinting powder to give the roll a golden crust - sprinkle when rolling and shade). Top can be decorated with a berry or cream.

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Bagels, bagels and donuts are also simply molded. For example, a small plastic sausage can be a bagel, and if you twist it completely, and cover it with chocolate icing and decorate with decor, you get a donut or a cake.

Cakes, of course, are made more complicated. First you will need to make the cakes (you can use a coin to make the circles even and the same), then cream or meringue (maybe jelly if the recipe calls for it) for a layer between the cakes. If you want a piece to be appetizingly cut off from the product, you will have to grind and decorate all the side walls. Also, do not forget about the cream and decorations on top.

Appetizing donuts

We will need: white or cream-colored polymer clay, liquid plastic-gel, acrylic paints and tools.

Step one. We cut the clay into pieces of the desired size and form balls.

Step two. Roll the balls with fine salt, lightly pressing it to the products so as not to sprinkle.

Step three. Flatten the balls, forming the shape of donuts.

Step four. We outline holes with a stack and expand them with a finger so that the donuts take on their final shape. We bake the products for half an hour at a temperature of 110 ° C.

Step five. We take out the donuts from the oven and wash the salt from them by soaking them in water. We take caramel-colored clay, chop it into pieces and mix it with liquid plastic-gel. Let the mixture stand for 2-3 hours, then mix it until a homogeneous consistency and rub donuts with this mass (with your hands).

Step six. We cover the donuts with “icing”, which we prepare in the same way as in the fifth step, using the desired colors. In our case, it is pink, white and chocolate. Next, we decorate the products, burn and varnish.

Miniature food: meat, fish, poultry

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