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Many years ago we had a kitchen gadget that you rolled over pastry and it cut it into a lattice.
IT died or got thrown away - anyway it vanished a long time ago.
You can buy them - but where's the fun in that ?
I've been thinking about making one for a while.
Number of design issues.
Figured about now I was good enough to give it a go.
first work out how to make a cylinder that rolled with blades that left gaps.
This is the second attempt - first did not have enough 'blades' and did not roll :-)
I'd put the blades down as advanced modelling, and some lateral thinking :-)
Made the cylinder in two halves, the two 6 pin end caps hold it together. Glue it up and you have a solid - accurate - cutting cylinder.
The metal rod (poundland tentpeg) goes through the handle and cylinder. job done.
Now you need some pastry to roll:
Looking interesting, so far so good, what happens if you pull the pastry apart ?
Up to this point I had no idea what it would look like :-)
Make a mincemeat and apple tart and stretch over the top:
Cook - at this point I realised it would have looked a lot better if I'd put the apple on the bottom and the mincemeat on the top !
serve warm with vanilla icecream :-)
So that was the complicated gadget.
Also this week I prepped and cured the salmon ready to smoke for christmas.
And as soon as uit stops bloody raining - I will smoke it
But it was cheap and niot that well filletted. Needed something to remove the bones.
so i made this. From thinking I needed one to designing, printing and holding one in my hand and putting it to use - approx 1 hour :-)
Even amazon prime isn't that quick
It's small so i used the latest printer (up to 5 printers now - the mini delta is the second cheapest).
I've swapped out the stock 0.4mm nozzle for a 0.25mm one. This means I can get really tiny details on very small items. Which is one of the reasons I wanted it in the first place :-)
It's also the only genuine plug and play printer I own.
switch it on, load some filament, press the little led button and it knocks out a chinese waving cat.
I was genuinely impressed !
did it work ?
Perfectly !
so much better than buggering about with kitchen paper and pastry crimpers.
The only problem is it's so small there's no way to store it. So I've put it in a bag and the bag in the 'draw of many things'
Can now be found
The little pointy jaw is to find and lift the bones so you can grab the end with the jaws,
It's actually made from en experimental plastic that has teeny tiny industrial nano-diamonds mixed in with the plastic. makes it tougher, slipperier and harder. Unfortunately the only thing the diamonds don't do is make it sparkly. They are just too small !
IT died or got thrown away - anyway it vanished a long time ago.
You can buy them - but where's the fun in that ?
I've been thinking about making one for a while.
Number of design issues.
Figured about now I was good enough to give it a go.
first work out how to make a cylinder that rolled with blades that left gaps.
This is the second attempt - first did not have enough 'blades' and did not roll :-)
I'd put the blades down as advanced modelling, and some lateral thinking :-)
Made the cylinder in two halves, the two 6 pin end caps hold it together. Glue it up and you have a solid - accurate - cutting cylinder.
The metal rod (poundland tentpeg) goes through the handle and cylinder. job done.
Now you need some pastry to roll:
Looking interesting, so far so good, what happens if you pull the pastry apart ?
Up to this point I had no idea what it would look like :-)
Make a mincemeat and apple tart and stretch over the top:
Cook - at this point I realised it would have looked a lot better if I'd put the apple on the bottom and the mincemeat on the top !
serve warm with vanilla icecream :-)
So that was the complicated gadget.
Also this week I prepped and cured the salmon ready to smoke for christmas.
And as soon as uit stops bloody raining - I will smoke it
But it was cheap and niot that well filletted. Needed something to remove the bones.
so i made this. From thinking I needed one to designing, printing and holding one in my hand and putting it to use - approx 1 hour :-)
Even amazon prime isn't that quick
It's small so i used the latest printer (up to 5 printers now - the mini delta is the second cheapest).
I've swapped out the stock 0.4mm nozzle for a 0.25mm one. This means I can get really tiny details on very small items. Which is one of the reasons I wanted it in the first place :-)
It's also the only genuine plug and play printer I own.
switch it on, load some filament, press the little led button and it knocks out a chinese waving cat.
I was genuinely impressed !
did it work ?
Perfectly !
so much better than buggering about with kitchen paper and pastry crimpers.
The only problem is it's so small there's no way to store it. So I've put it in a bag and the bag in the 'draw of many things'
Can now be found
The little pointy jaw is to find and lift the bones so you can grab the end with the jaws,
It's actually made from en experimental plastic that has teeny tiny industrial nano-diamonds mixed in with the plastic. makes it tougher, slipperier and harder. Unfortunately the only thing the diamonds don't do is make it sparkly. They are just too small !
right here sister 
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