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Sausages and other imperishable meats serve a similar purpose as dried fruits. With the skin removed, they can be sliced and carved to mimic all sorts of appetizers and side dishes. After this, add you last layer of varnish or shellac, to preserve the creation.
Some companies even create jewelry, accessories, and toys that are shaped like food. In fact, some of these replicas are so real-looking, you can hardly tell the difference between the fakes and the real thing. Fast forward to 2018 and fake food has become something of a collectors item!
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This will create a hard impenetrable layer around the roll and make it water resistant. I decided the best way to make a hot dog roll look real, is to use a real hot dog roll! So, I found a pack of rolls reduced in my local shop .
If you want find a plastic sausage in a kids food set, then you can make one. Papermache is quick and easy, but needs many layers and may take some time. I used home made quick drying salt clay to make my hot dog sausage. There are a few quick recipes for salt dough on here, so I won't repeat. Make your sausage shape, measure it to fit the hot dog roll and leave to dry.
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It can be tricky to match the color and opacity of your intended goal; luckily, everything is edible, so you can eat your tests and samples. You can also find culinary colors in spray cans, which are a boon for the more artistically inclined. Bananas can be mashed to imitate a great number of foods, such as cream or ice cream. With the right coloring and toppings, it can even substitute for meat or fish. When sliced lengthwise, you have a decent white meat substitute for chicken. Yogurt and cottage cheese work in a similar vein, but because of the milk content, they are less-commonly used.
It should also go without saying that you should not attempt to reuse uneaten food from one performance for the next one. Known in Japan as “shokuhin sampuru” (食品サンプル), food models are often made of plastic or wax and emulate the look, texture and form of meals. They were first used by restaurants in the days before color photography as a way to show consumers what items were available on hand. Whenever I do Scapino I make the sausage out of a long foam cylinder with a nerf ball cut in half for each end.
Fake Food – Making inedible replicas
I have previously written about making inedible fake food. A props person may also have to make edible fake food. Having been successful with the hot dog rolls, I decided to follow the same process for the burgers. I chose some pre-sliced burger buns with seeds on top as they looked great and pre-sliced means they are equally cut and neat.
As far as making them go, most of the commercial products seem to be made of fiberglass. If I were approaching this problem, my first thought would be to make a mold and cast it in silicone or resin. The trickiest problem would be finding or creating the piece to make the mold from. Good research is essential to capture the most realistic details. I might even be tempted to go to a fish market and pick up actual fish to make a mold from.
It’s good to develop a sort of “base” of materials which are readily available, easy to work with, and can mimic a great deal of foods. Bananas, breads, and food coloring have been some of the more popular bases for props artisans for well over a century. The props department is frequently called upon to make all manner...... I used a hot glue gun to make a strong bond between the bread roll and the hot dog. I then added a drizzle of mustard or ketchup and left it all to dry hard.
There are a number of other articles floating around the internet giving tutorials for specific types of food. “Shortone” has a cool Instructable on how to make fake cupcakes. Amy Sedaris has instructions for making a cake out of styrofoam and spackle. Between these two, you can get a good idea of how to replicate any number of pastries and desserts. To make this gore, just whip up a batch of our Gross Blood recipe, and make a hunk of Fake Flesh.
Creating a mold to make fake food is relatively easy, provided you know a few simple techniques. You will need a pattern, or master, to create a mold. You can use an existing object as a pattern, but the object should be durable enough to survive the process. Another option is to carve a pattern out of clay or wood. If you’d prefer a flat design, wood carving is a good choice.
Tofu is another kind of base which can be built on for any number of fake edibles. It has the advantage of being vegan, and in some cases, gluten-free, so it’s a great choice for tricky eaters. Fake cupcakes made out of expanding foam and Spackle.
Fake food like this can be used for a number of purposes. For home stagers, you can easily dress up a boring dining room table or kitchen counter with some realistic fake/faux food. Set dressers, have no fear, our realistic food would look wonderfully real in your stage play, musical or photo op. Collectors, our fake food would look great in your case or on a shelf. We offer the largest selection and ship direct from our warehouse based in the USA.
Since multiple takes are required to get the scene just right, actors spit the food into a bucket between takes. They needed a lot of toast, so I decided to make some fake toast to augment the real toast. I started off with a sheet of white floral foam the same thickness as toast. I cut it into triangles, rounded some of the edges and shaped them a bit to match the pieces of real toast I was using as reference. If you have ever been to Japan, you might have seen plastic models of food in the windows of restaurants, displaying the edible counterparts that lay within. These are called ‘sampuru’ or ‘sample’ and have been part of the Japanese economy and food culture for nearly one hundred years.
Using shellac, which can be found at any building supply or craft store, you can preserve the food to keep the craft intact. Shellac dries clear so that you can still perfectly see the food behind the shellac, but it will be protected against bugs, ants or deterioration. Use heavy scissors or an X-Acto knife to cut out your market food. This site is a way to share my work and the things I've learned over the years, and to connect with other prop builders, props masters, and artisans. You may want to check out Van Dykes taxidermy the fish are a bit dear in price. If you are working where people will be looking up close it may be worth it.
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