Ice Carving

As part of our Garde Manger II class, we carved blocks of ice. We had two ice carvers come to our class and demonstrate the four stages - tracing and chipping the outline, sawing the basic shape, giving it dimension, and finalizing the details. After they demonstrated each step, we worked on our own block of ice. Everyone made the same sculpture - a fish.

While it's by no means perfect, I was pretty happy that my sculpture looked like a fish. It's hard to see the fish's head because of my white coat, but I carved him with a small eye and a mouth. The fish is supposed to be sitting on the wave with his bottom fin curved towards me. Overall, a fun experience, something I would try again even if I'm not good at it.