Something like that, yeah. I wanted to make her some when I visited her in jail but I kinda forgot about the part where they don't let visitors take knives inside.
"Carving" makes it sound more complicated than it is... it's really just cuttin' slices with a few extra steps. The kinda thing you put in a kid's lunchbox.
[ just going to finish this batch as the example and then he can give ace a fresh apple for practice!! ]
So, you take your slice — should be about a sixth of the apple — and cut a thin V-shape into the end of it like this. Real light, you wanna cut just a little below the skin here.
[ walking through each step as he explains... he tries to make sure he's giving a good view of what he's doing, though it's kind of hard since these apple slices are small and his knife is not. ]
Then you cut under the skin from the back forward, ending right about even with the point of the V. Not directly under the skin, though; you wanna keep a little layer of apple under there so it's sturdy enough to keep its shape.
And finally you come back and remove that little V-triangle you cut before. Might need to re-cut along the line with the tip of your knife if it's not deep enough.
[ finishes this one up and makes sure it looks nice! ]
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[ looks over at the cut up apples ]
Is that an offering?
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So, figure I can at least do it now.
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[ looking at the picture a little melancholy ]
Never tried to carve a fruit before.
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Yeah, I've seen something like that a few times. It always seemed fancy to me!
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[ also usually he just eats the food. ]
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[ just going to finish this batch as the example and then he can give ace a fresh apple for practice!! ]
So, you take your slice — should be about a sixth of the apple — and cut a thin V-shape into the end of it like this. Real light, you wanna cut just a little below the skin here.
[ walking through each step as he explains... he tries to make sure he's giving a good view of what he's doing, though it's kind of hard since these apple slices are small and his knife is not. ]
Then you cut under the skin from the back forward, ending right about even with the point of the V. Not directly under the skin, though; you wanna keep a little layer of apple under there so it's sturdy enough to keep its shape.
And finally you come back and remove that little V-triangle you cut before. Might need to re-cut along the line with the tip of your knife if it's not deep enough.
[ finishes this one up and makes sure it looks nice! ]
...And there ya have it.
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Nice. I gotta say, that's really different knife work from skinning an animal! [ no shit, ace. no shit. ]