I was wondering if anyone has gone to a pastry school? If so which one? How much did you learn from your school? I am wondering because I am not sure if I should go and do the whole pastry school thing, or just pick up things as I go, because I don't want to spend all that money on going to school, if I am not going to learn a lot, if not everything there is to know about cake decorating. Thanks for the help!
Well, on your own or in a structured school environment, you will get out of it as much as you put in. I went to California Culinary Academy in San Francisco and I absolutely LOVED it and learned sooo much, got straight A's and all that. There were other people there who didn't care as much and they didn't do as well and might not give you the same review. I say if really being a pastry chef and not just a cake decorator is important to you then go for it! Obviously, I recommend the school I went do but I do NOT recommend Western Culinary (I think its in Oregon). Now, I haven't been there but everyone that I have worked with professionally (like 5 people) who came from there were, lets just say, incompetent. Regardless of your proficiency level, this is the reputation you will have to battle.
If you want to be a cake designer why go not design school?
I went to school for industrial design, and I learned about proportion, color, structures, creative thinking, all things I use for my job now.
I can design really well and I have notebooks full of new ideas, clients love to see.
All I know about pastry i know from books. I do all my cakes fillings and fondants from scratch.
Ultimately you will learn for the interest you put in learning things more than for what they teach you in school, but wherever you decide to go is the school experience it self what's the most valuable
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