The Online Photographer

Here's a tip for you. When shopping for oranges, weigh the fruit in hand. Juice weighs heavier than flesh so the heavier orange will be juiciest. Then - take a picture. Food and photography,see...see?...anyone?

A waterproof container for a roll of 120 film can be had without glueing. Just buy some Mini M&Ms in the plastic tube and eat the candy. Voila', you have a perfect container for 120 film, a tad long but it works fine.

I had just emptied a couple of long thin effervescent vitamin tablet containers, when I realised that they will each hold two 120 film rolls. I just need to trim the lid a little. And start using rollfilm, so I'll need to set up a darkroom, and.....

An easier solution (anti-solution?)for storing 120 film is pill bottles! I was even able to get some that were out of a Nalgene type material.

Food photography is really hard. And complicated. And technical. And stressful. And...I would rather do something completely different, because I am fundamentally lazy.

And because frankly it seems, well, I hate to say this, but, kinda, well, oh I guess I should say, er, like, um, boring? Hey, but don't be offended, some of my best friends are accountants...

This sounds like experience speaking...

Shoot first, eat later.

A chef friend of mine got the occasional food-for-photos job back in our college days. She once spent a day baking pizzas for a shoot for a national pizza chain, so we -- her friends -- were expecting a bounty of tasty leftovers. "No, no," she said. "Those pizzas were all inedible. You should see what we do to them to make them look good in pictures."

Sorry that I cannot understand your tips. Using text to describe an action is hard to get. You need to update your approach - put in in youtube. Go for adox.

The Japan Camera Hunter 120 Film Cases are far and away the best way I've found to carry 120 film. I've got several of them, and I keep a couple of them full of Ilford HP5 in my bag, with the Mamiya 6 system that I carry everywhere I go.

http://www.japancamerahunter.com/shop/japancamerahunter-120-film-cases/

I have done lots of food photography in the past, and learnt many tips and tricks. There is, or was, a whole world of people producing props for food shots. Hand carved acrylic blocks for ice, bubbles etc.
Also there was a water absorbing gel that could be turned into cubed, shave, of crushed ice.
I even hired 'bubbles' to sit in the minisuscus layer at the edge of glass of drink. these were tiny glass bubbles one large in the middle and a small bubble each side this sat in glass of brandy.
We did use mashed potato but never for ice-cream. It was mostly to bulk up pots of stew etc, so you only have a thin layer of product on the top of the pot which was much easier to work with.
If you were photographing a ice cream you legally have to use the product! Ice cream has a whole sub set of tricks. Mostly involving dry ice and very cold studios for only one or two sheets of 5X4 film, under hot lights, per shot.
As for eating the product after a shoot, then yes and no. Most of the shooting I did was for prepared products The 'Hero' product would be inedible after been prepped and shot. But for every 'hero' there could be 100 rejects, because for packaging photography the product had to be shown. So the client would arrive with a van load of the product and they all had to be looked at, some would be miss shaped, not evenly cooked, it way show to the wrong proportions of ingredients, a few would be chosen as suitable for the shoot, the rest got eaten by staff if the client was generous. I do recall a 2 month spell as an assistant in the studio when I did no food shopping :)