My niece is a very talented pastry chef. We were talking the other day as we happened to meet on the same bus, and she starts talking about a new tool she is looking for.

Where do I find an airbrush she says in an anguished tone. You can find them everywhere, I say. No way she says, I can't find anything, anywhere. So I tell her I have 4 and that I have used them since I was say 13 years old, she couldn't believe her ears! Quite fun to be useful sometimes!!

She works all the time in Marzipan (colored almond-paste) and wants to use an airbrush for effects and stuff. There all kinds of colors, opaque and clear, and chocolates (yes I wrote chocolate) you can spray that are all basically the thickness of milk (or thinner)!!

Needless to say we are going to meet soon so that I can teach her how to use an airbrush. I used to be a pastry chef myself, back in the day. I never was very good with Marzipan, but chocolate on the other hand...

You might just see an edible model very soon from me...

Thinned chocolate as a final Dull Kote...Interesting

If you temper the chocolate correctly you can get anything from a dull coat to a high gloss...

One drawback is the cost though...