2007/04/03 Jason's A8 Speech

Speech title: Puff Tasting
Speech Project: A8 The Demonstration Talk
Time limit: 5 to 7 minutes

Executive summary:
A demonstration is the most effective way to explain a process, activity or product. Demonstration can be done through body movement (showing a dance step or skiing technique), showing a physical object, or displaying a model. Carefully rehearse the demonstration and be sure the audience can see it. Anticipate any problems that may occur and plan how to handle each one.

Objectives:
Prepare a demonstration speech to clearly explain a process, product, or activity.
Conduct the demonstration as part of a speech delivered without notes.

Ladies and gentlemen, do you like eating? Yes, most people like eating just a few people they don’t like, but they still have to eat. Tonight I would to share my personal secret for tasting puff with all of you.
There are so many kinds of puffs in our world; I don’t have enough time to introduce them, so I only choose one to introduce to you. This puff is “crispy puff” some people call it “pineapple puff”, all of crispy puff looks alike only two things different, size and filling, any baker he can decide how big his puff is and what filling he want to fill with, some puff fill with whipping cream some fill with custard some taste like mousse some taste like ice cream, this one it taste like ice cream. Before you eat it, firstly you need to prepare some tools, oven tray gloves and tongs, and then we should preheat oven this action can help you to control baking time, if you don’t preheat you need to bake it longer and how much time you should spend? I don’t know that depend on your oven, some oven heat up quickly some ovens are slowly. Put puff on tray after oven is heated put tray in to oven bake for 3 minutes, this action can remake puff crispy, because air contain moisture if you don’t eat puff immediately when it just take out from oven, moisture will soften puff’s crust and then it don’t taste crispy anymore, so we should bake it again. One thing I need to remind you, you must store puff in freezer otherwise the filling’s quality will change.
We have several minutes to wait, so at this period let me tell you some knowledge about puff. Do you know where origin of puff is? France. Do you know how to say puff in French? "chou”. Why does French call it chou? Because chou means cabbage, puff’s appearance look like cabbage, so French call it chou and Japanese they steal word from France therefore Japanese call puff chou cream, why does it call puff in English? Oh…….I don’t know, but I tell you another meaning of this word, it can be a verb means inflation, so I guess maybe the reason is putt can puff up quickly like balloon, you can see inside of puff is empty.
Ok, time is up, Ladies and gentlemen, I promise this is best way to taste puff, would you like to try? Later you can practice and try it during intermission time.