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We always enjoy hearing the tricks deployed by food stylists – yacht varnish on the turkeys, ice cream made of mashed potato – so if any of you readers are food stylists, please apply your professional expertise to this question from Amy from York:
Is it true that in food adverts they place a steaming hot tampon behind the plate of food to make it look as if the food has just come out of the oven and is piping hot?
Not looking so appetising now, is it?
May 24, 2012 at 3:01 am |
Hopefully this link will come through: http://books.google.ca/books?id=7BSioG0WCrcC&pg=PA134&lpg=PA134&dq=steaming+tampon+food+stylist&source=bl&ots=pghfqu7CRT&sig=TQhEXkYrxDKDLbr0YGxee82cUm4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=dqG9T970J-SpiQKY_ajoDQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=steaming%20tampon%20food%20stylist&f=false
If not, the answer according to the book Food Styling by Delores Cluster is yes.
But tampons (“known in the business as T-28’s”) are halfway down the list. #1? Hydrochloric acid and ammonium hydroxide. Yum.
Also, watch the video here: http://www.whoshungryblog.com/food-photography/2011/11/25/three-methods-to-creating-steam-for-food-photography/ . The third one is absolutely ridiculous.
PS – AMT, congrats! You are now the top TWO Google hits for “steaming hot tampon”. Time for another run at Luxembourg?