From the beginning I knew there was a co-relation between cooking at designing. But for me Plating and presenting scrumptious food was the only designing part about cooking. However this project made me realise that design in cooking plays a role bigger than just shaping the dough and adding decorations.
I was able to able to connect my learning’s from cooking with my past experiences with design some of which were
Learning how to Correct my mistakes- usually when I am making an art work and I mess it up, I throw away the material and start again. However in case of cooking we have always been taught that we should not “waste” food. Thus, when faced with a situation where my experiment was a failure instead of throwing it away I came up with ways to fix it instead. The end result always had a “flavour” that a perfect- made according to plan- dish didn’t. And this is something I wanna incorporate in my future journey with designing.
Experimenting is the foundation- in the beginning when we were told to experiment, I didn’t take it seriously. Somewhere I felt like I already knew what the outcome would be, so why bother right? But I was totally wrong. While making my final dish many errors that I made and my learning’s from those mistakes came handy when those situations arose again. Like I knew how to handle the leaks in my poison Apple because it had already happened during my ice cream gujia experiment. This made me realise the importance of prototyping in design.
Positive and negative space- while plating my final dish, I was faced with a dilemma. My poison Apple looked very tiny compared to me very long plate. After thinking about this problem for a while, I remembered one of my learning’s from FVL, Josh sir told me how the size of my dots had to be according to the size of my paper, and since I had more space I could add more dots. That’s when I made my “magic pot”. I considered my plate as a piece of paper trying to achieve the perfect balance between the negative and positive space. I was able to understand what Josh sir said better after experiencing a practical example of it.
Patience- as someone who runs low on patience this project was extremely challenging. I was never someone who was able to do extremely detailed work because I would get fed up really easily. However incase of cooking you can not rush the process, you can’t increase the flame to cook the items faster as it will burn them. In the end I realised that the items cooked slowly turned out to be better than those cooked in a rush, and this is something I want to work towards improving and I believe this would also improve the quality of my art work in future.
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