in our quest to find a new food tube star

with Uncle Ben's we are going to give you some tools and tricks and

some videos to support you in all of your skills

and the food team are going to give you some great tips on how you can kind of pace

yourself

and the kind of the things you need to choose that will really work on TV

I do everything with the food team, whether we're up mountains or in tunnels

in Timbuktu, so check them out I'm sure they will be

helping you make the best videos ever and don't forget all the details below

I wanna see your video. Hi I'm Charlie from Jamies Food Team

my first top tip is shopping for

fruit and your vegetables so when you're in the supermarkets

there's lots and lots of things going on and it's quite daunting but its always

worth taking that extra time to find your lovely ingredients

for example if you using lemons and your zesting,

it's nice to get unwaxed you can get leafy lemons from your grocers that

add that extra bit of color

you got lovely onions and herbs, you have beautiful

salad leaves. You'll find that it changes from season to season

So if you can't find an ingredient you like at your local supermarket

it's always worth befriending your local greengrocer

and just kinda keep up to date with what's in season

when it comes to quantities it's always better to buy slightly

over what you actually need depending on

your budget but at the end of the day it's important that you have more

than what you need

in case need something goes wrong or your

you're doing pack shot or a thumbnail shot at the end

that you nered to re do what you've done

My next up to it's all about keeping

your hero ingredients that you've found at the supermarket fresh

So, big thing, herbs these tend to wilt

as soon as they're bought and it's a fact

kitchen towel, wet it with a bit of cold water

this keeps them fresh

Literally just toll them up and you store them in the fridge and they will last a

good day or so. This baby gem for example it's got a kind of a rough

bottom was just being cut off that's been sitting around for quite a while

so just trim and automatically go really nice

fresh looking baby gem lettuce. Herbs in pots

you know that they'll almost a fresh, just bought for one pound fifty or whatever it

is

And if you put it in a terracotta pot or in a jug or anything that comes to hand it

looks really, really nice

when I'm on a shoot with Jamie, this is whtat I like to think about. So first of all I start

with

his empty space. He has obviously a board and a knife

salt and pepper utensil jar pots and pans if he needs

in terms of the food, if it's meat

for example put it on a baking parchment or or a plate

rather than its packets it just looks a lot, lot nicer

so when it comes to putting your hero ingredients

in set and there are lots of different angles here

but always go with the prettiest facing out towards the camera

We could go with that one its not so nice again

you're not really seeing much there, this angle is

by far the prettiest you can see the selection that's going on on this plate

likewise when it comes to your final dish

you want to make sure that your angle that the camera seeing

is the prettiest because that is what the viewer will be seeing too.

So my next top tip is

all about colours not just with your finished

article on your plate, but with what your

you're presenting as well on set. For example this

lovely bowl, it's the prop have the color itself is really, really nice it

zings out at the camera

lemons chillis limes they all work very well together they're all

quite contrasting but complementary colors

the same as if you were plating up,

cooking a curry or a stew

you can't really tell a difference you can't see your chunk of meat to your

tomato. it all looks really, very

similar. A dollop of yoghurt will work really really well and some

lovey leaves if you were, if it was a curry for example coriander

scattered over the top maybe some chopped chilli. Try with and try without

and you'll see the difference.

So my last tip is all about height and texture and movement

on a plate for example

Say these pears were are final,

our final dish. No just

it's not just about piling your food up, it's also about the plates

and the props that you use, this is quite a big plate, so if I was

to place these on here, they would just look a bit

lost and a bit sad however if I was to get a slightly smaller plate

you can see it's got a slight dip and a nice edge

a nice kind of pattern. Pile them up

something a little bit different. It

draws, it draws the plate of food up

to your eye and I think that's really , really important. Remember

all this fuss is for one thing to make people want to try

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