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Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! Thinking about the delight of mooncakes under the Harvest Moon ๐๐ธ
Guysโฆ youโre not gonna fucking believe this one
โOh, he did not justโฆโ
Yes, he did.ย
Get the fuck outta here
This man is the modern day equivalent of the clockwork masters who made strange, intricate wind-up toys for extremely wealthy people.ย Exceptionally talented, astonishingly inventive, brilliantly skilled, and the pinnacle of craftsmanship that serves to astonish and delight.
CHOCOLATE FUCKERโS BACK ON HIS BULLSHIT
okay so i often watch these chocolate guy videos and think to myself โwhat is the point of making this out of chocolate? modeling chocolate is reportedly disgusting, this is not really intended for consumption, why doesnโt he just make it out of clay or somethingโ
but watching this video i FINALLY realized.
chocolate is the only sculpture medium that you can melt and then freeze for effect without some serious equipment.
like. the process of letting the chocolate drip down over the water balloon? yeah that chocolate only needs to be, like, a little over 100F/38C. thatโs a touchable temperature, thatโs something that you can put your fingers in without burning them off. and then it freezes again at about room temperature! and granted you want the ambient environment a little colder than room temperature, because otherwise the heat from your hands will start to melt it, but again, being able to melt this medium with your hands is a bonus.
clay doesnโt melt. you can make it liquid-y by adding water, but that doesnโt harden up again afterwards, or when it does, itโs EXTREMELY fragile. plastic melts, but at pretty high temperatures that can be dangerous to handle, and itโs also really easy to burn and will release toxic gases when it does burn. metal melts, but thatโs obviously even HOTTER and MORE dangerous. wood doesnโt melt. stone technically melts but like. good luck with that one.
chocolate melts at a reasonable, human-touchable temperature and freezes again at room temperature, which means you can make solid shapes from dripping or pouring melted chocolate and letting it harden.
the only other sculpting medium i know that does that is wax, and i think wax is generally too soft/malleable overall for the kind of large structures that this guy makes.
so i finally, FINALLY fucking get why he does this shit in chocolate oh my god.
I mean, Iโm pretty sure he does them in chocolate because heโs a pastry chef and chocolatier by training (really early training, too! Like 14 years old!)
Like all of the above about the features of chocolate and how it allows itself to be used to make this kind of detailed sculpture are trueย but um, pretty sure he makes sculptures out of chocolate because heโs a pastry chefย and these are his media. One of the most remarkable things about his work is actually that heโs absolutely dead insistentย that every one of these is made to be eaten: a lot of chocolate sculpture is (or especially was before he started throwing down this way) kinda โฆ .second class food. It really is JUST about the sculpture.ย
Guichon is adamantย that itโs supposed to also taste amazing and is meant to be eaten.ย
Heโs not a non-food sculptor who stumbled across chocolate as the perfect material and medium; heโs a pastry chefย who internalized that his awesome food could also be awesome sculpture AND still be food. He works in chocolate because thatโs the point.ย
For the smaller things he makes, youโll often see him actually eating it at the end, and I think thatโs a great indication that heโs actually trying to make Good Food, not just PRETTY food.
Also! Heโs not (or mostly not) using modeling chocolate! Modeling chocolate is a paste made by combining regular chocolate and corn syrup to make it easy to model by hand. Guichon uses ordinary tempered chocolate or other edible components for the vast majority of his work.
Voted wettest sounding video on tumblr
Me: wettest sound?
*turns on sound*
Me: oh. Yeah. Thatโs a wet sounding video
Abir Saghir (Abir.sag on TikTok) has some of the greatest cooking videos on her Tiktok. Kelz has dueted her videos more than once, they're so good.
Here we have some choice piles of excrement.
CHOCOLATE MAN BACK AT IT AGAIN
i see any large amount of chocolate and my mind just screams โitโs the fucking chocolate man againโ
this bitch knows carpentry, pottery, sculpture, architecture, AND all the chocolate/confectionary skills. what the fuck doesnโt he know?????
when to quit
Blossoming Shaymin cakes growing in little chocolate pots ๐ธ๐
These chocolate pots are filled with cake, chocolate mousse, butterscotch pudding, and Oreo crumbs, each topped with a buttercream Shaymin.