Three-dimensional puzzle

Surprise and puzzle your guests with unusual slicing of potatoes or citrus fruits! To be honest, at one time I couldn't make this thing the first time. So if you suddenly fail too - do not worry, try again a couple of times, thoughtfully, slowly. That's why I chose potatoes for the first demonstration, because it's not a pity if you suddenly cut it wrong. And for the rest, I haven't seen a single company yet that wouldn't start groaning and splashing their hands at the sight of these three-dimensional puzzles. There is also a great risk that someone will want to immediately try to repeat this culinary masterpiece, so never serve such things when people are already... um... is in a state where you can cut yourself with a knife. You can cut potatoes, radishes, citrus fruits into three-dimensional puzzles (for example, limes for squeezing into cocktails; or lemons, which are served for watering fish and shrimp juice). Not everyone is suitable for kiwis, they sometimes have too fibrous a base. Very interesting configurations of this kind can be made from daikon, having previously cut it into cubes - but it will turn out, in principle, inedible jokes, in pure form, table decoration.

Magnago

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 10 % 1 g

Fats 0 % 0 g

Carbohydrates 90 % 9 g

42 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 3 min

Step 1:
To make a three-dimensional puzzle, you need some kind of vegetable or fruit - and three knives. A beginner needs three knives, a carving specialist is quite capable of doing two. I still do not recommend one - it is possible, but inconvenient.
Step 2:
Peel the potatoes. (Citrus fruits do not need to be cleaned). You can try to make the same figure from potatoes boiled in a uniform, but then you need to let it lie for a day after boiling before cutting, so that it does not fall apart (and even then it does not always work, it depends on the variety.)
Step 3:
It's better to look at the photos further, it's difficult to describe it in text. One knife should be inserted into the object up to the central axis.
Step 4:
Insert the other knife strictly perpendicular to the first one so that their blades meet. We sort of cut the potatoes cross by cross, but not to the end, but in half.
Step 5:
With a tripping knife, you need to make two incisions in the plane from which they have not yet been. Cut with it until it comes into contact with the blades of the other two knives. So, one incision like in this photo...
Step 6:
... and the second one is like this one. Maybe the cuts did not turn out to the end - twist the knife a little more, cut through all the corners
Step 7:
Voila, the three-dimensional potato puzzle is ready!
Step 8:
Potatoes can be fried or baked in the oven, and then served, for example, such an amazing hi-tech composition.