How beautifully cut and serve fruit

General tips

Having decided to surprise your guests fruit slicing, prepare thoroughly.

1. Buy fruit. They must be fresh, smooth, no dents and black points. Consider the features of the fruit: oranges better to take a hard, but the kiwi should be easy prozhimatsya fingers.
2. carefully wash fruits. Do not forget that sometimes impregnated with paraffin wax for a glossy shine. Wash fruits directly before cutting under cold running water and soap and brush. Citrus will not hurt a hot shower. After washing, dry with a paper towel wipe the fruit.
3. Use sharp knives. Some fruit is more convenient to cut thin long blade, the other - a cutter, and others - a knife-sawing. Prepare a few tools of all sizes. On AliExpress are special knives for vegetables. For example, spoon-knife, Which is convenient to make notches on the fruit and balls of flesh. The main thing is that the tool is sharp. Otherwise nothing happens.
4. Prepare a platter, skewers and napkins, it was convenient to have cut fruits. Toothpicks may be needed for some fruit compositions.
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5. Chopped fruit just before serving. Watermelon and melon, try to remove all the bones, peaches and apricots Always remove the core. To cutting not blackened ahead of time, sprinkle it with lemon juice. The finished composition may also be sprinkled with powdered sugar, coconut flakes or grated chocolate.

When everything is ready, you can begin to work.

How beautifully cut apples

From a simple apple can create a work of art. For example, the elegant flower.

Take the red or green apple. Cut it into two parts, departing from the center of approximately 1 cm. Smaller half cut into slices of 1-2 mm thickness and fasten them with a toothpick, as shown in the video. From the second half of the apple, cut the ball or cube - it will stand. Plug it into a toothpick strung with apple slices and fold them in a circle, like a fan. The resulting flower can crown berries.

By the same token, you can make a flower out whole apple.

An even more refined look swans from apples. Make them easier than it seems. Assistants serve two identical dining knife. Cut the apple in two, remove the seeds. Put between the blades, first one half of the apple and cut a slice from it less, as shown in the video. Repeat with each subsequent slice, until there is a very small piece.

Then do the same thing with the other half of the apple. So you get the wings.

The head is cut from another apple.

How beautifully cut oranges and tangerines

With orange work a little harder: it stands out a lot of juice. And yet from the fruit can make a wonderful lotus.

To do this, cut the orange in half. On one of the halves with a sharp thin blade make longitudinal incisions along the lines of orange slices. Each sector is cut so as to obtain a pointed petal. Separate the petals on the flesh from the skin. Unbend and straighten her flower.

Resembling a flower can be made with strawberries.

Orange also can be converted into a luxury aster. Make an incision peel so as to obtain the petals. Flatten them and make curly cuts. It is important that the orange core is not separated from the skin.

The same can perform with tangerines.

How beautiful slice of kiwi

Beautiful colors can be made from kiwi fruit. For this purpose, the fetus should be cut rounded ends and then to make diagonal cuts a length of about 2 cm over the entire surface of the kiwifruit.

You should have pointy petals radiating rosette. The pulp can then be separated from the skin and spread, as is the case with an orange.

If no, the kiwi can be fed, even without making a flower. The following video shows how to figuratively cut the kiwi in half.

How beautifully sliced ​​strawberries

Strawberry beautiful roses grow up in the right hands. They are ideal for fruit plates, and for cake decoration.

Strawberry rose can be done in two ways. In the first case, you need large berries. Place the strawberries on a fork and make shallow cuts on it. Gyrate, ottopyrivaya each petal.

In the second case is taken strawberry less and get more volume rose. Separate the fruit stalk, cut a small piece of the side, to make it easier to cut. Thinly sliced ​​strawberry roll up into a spiral.

For children's holiday table can make butterflies out of strawberries.

How beautifully sliced ​​bananas

Original supply of bananas is mainly related to animals. Therefore, such compositions often make to children's parties.

Thus, out of a banana can do dearest dolphin.

Funny octopus.

Or ducks.

Another variation of duck - with plumage of berries and grapes. Take a banana, to attach to the stalk made of carrot duck head. Stumbles into a banana toothpick strung with these berries and grapes. It will be feathered fruit duck.

And if instead use banana pear, get the hedgehog.

How beautiful slice of watermelon and pineapple

To fruit cuts better take a watermelon seedless (or remove them to the maximum).

One of the most simple and convenient delivery options shown in the following video.

Small watermelon must be cut into four pieces. Each cut the flesh and cut it into thin slices. Serve directly in watermelon rinds, shifting pieces in a checkerboard pattern.

The same can be done with pineapple.

Fruit cutting at home

Using the above methods and exercising, you can create unique fruit composition.

And finally a few more video-based computation fruit plates for your inspiration.

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