We had a big open house party at work for our new office opening. I wanted to do something fun and special for it. I had this idea what if we were to make our own gummies. Everyone loves some gummies right?
I thought well we probably can get away with just designing a mold and then printing a few of them and just pouring the gummies into the printed mold and it will be all good...
So I designed a mold in sketchup. This looked pretty good. I went a head and printed off a test copy of it with a number of gummies on it. Now the print turned out well. I went to mix up some gummies to test. My tests turned out pretty badly. The gummies didn't set all that well and then when I tried to remove them the mold was so stiff that they broke pretty badly trying to remove them. This clearly didn't look like it was going to work. Other tricks were going to be needed. I talked to some other co workers and researched and looked like making a silicone mold would be our best bet here. So I redesigned the mold this time the print was a negative. This would let me pour silicone over the 3d printed part and make a silicone mold from that. With the help of a co worker this is what we did.
These molds turned out wonderful! These were super easy to work with. The gummies could be easily removed from the mold after they were cast.
The recipe I used was
1 3oz box of jello
5 packets of knox gellatin
1/2 cup of water
Mix the ingredients in a bowl
let it sit for 5 mins
Then microwave for 30 seconds. Stir
And microwave another 30 seconds
Pour into molds. And put in the fridge. These will be wonderfully set in about 10 minutes.
Then I popped them out and rolled them in sugar. They were peach flavored, tasted like the peach rings!
So good!!
3d printing molds for casting is a pretty effective trick for casting. I think I'm going to need to look into this more for future projects.
