Once Upon a time in the Woods - Adventure Calendar 2025

you can use chocolate on a FDM printer.. I don't think a resin one though as the laser doesn't really cure chocolate like it cures the resin. (you can see online for FDM printed chocolate.. but making it commercially food safe, and the fact of the time 3d printing takes, means its not commercially viable either. (on a side note, that's one reason people are very mad at Lego... ¬_¬)
 
I actually bought food safe silicone with an idea of making chocolate opponents, but chocolate isn't water-thin and getting definition was not easy. Maybe I need to spin cast it... but in a spin caster that's had lead in it? Maybe not!
 
^_^ I first created it for an upcoming Adventure game Book reading (I'm debating cutting it into two parts cause it's a bit longer then I expected) But it's a nice and simple thing which I think works well.
 
ManicMan said:
surely you can spin-cast Chocolate ^_^
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I wonder what you would use as a mold release. Flour, probably? Olive oil might be worth a shot, but I don't think that would taste great with chocolate. Maybe some kind of vegetable oil that doesn't have a terribly strong flavor? Canola oil, maybe? (Which I think is rapeseed in the UK.) Interesting idea. Chocolate models. Well, at least my pile of shame would have a limit to how big it could get before I "painted" it. :grin:
 
Rapeseed has a horrible flavour, cheap Chinese takeaway blergh oil, though they're really trying to market it as the olive oil alternative. Canola is corn oil, but fairly uncommon here. We mostly use sunflower oil for high smoke point, low flavour oil.

Though if you temper the chocolate correctly, it should self release from the mould and be all shiny.
 
^Not to be difficult, but the stuff we call canola oil in the US is most definitely not corn oil. Per wiki it really is what you call rapeseed oil, though likely a different variety than yours. (Some cheeky person has renamed the article and built in a redirect so you can't even search for canola oil, even though that's likely the more common name, and the article uses "canola" nearly twice as much as "rapeseed.") Sunflower oil is great, but I'd have said the flavor is a little strong. Again, that might be a difference of variety, since sunflower oil here is mostly a thing used in Asian cooking. But hey, if chocolate is self releasing, then no need to worry.

On the other hand, if you want to channel Matthew Street and argue with me about food, that'll genuinely make me smile. Man, I miss that argumentative curmudgeon. (I say as an argumentative curmudgeon.) ;)
 
symphonicpoet said:
Man, I miss that argumentative curmudgeon.
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Me too. :(

Slave to Darkness said:
Not picked up a FF book in years, last one was the Blacksand book for Advanced Fighting Fantasy back in the 90s.
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City of Thieves is my favourite, which makes me excited about Khare, Cityport of Traps. I love a city adventure. Yes, it's just open-air dungeoneering but usually much more cohesively thought-out. Exploring a well-constructed city is a delight.
 
Personally... I have not many FF books.. Though I have "You are the Hero" interactive combine book on the series ^_^ And some of the official minis that.. I forgot the company name, makes.. Blue frog or something..
 
Fimm McCool said:
Me too. :(


City of Thieves is my favourite, which makes me excited about Khare, Cityport of Traps. I love a city adventure. Yes, it's just open-air dungeoneering but usually much more cohesively thought-out. Exploring a well-constructed city is a delight.
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City of Thieves is one of my favs too! @Eric gifted me a copy at BOYL I had got rid of all my childhood FF books years ago… Khare is a whole extra level of adventure! Plus those sweeeet John Blanche artwork takes it too another level!
 
symphonicpoet said:
^Not to be difficult, but the stuff we call canola oil in the US is most definitely not corn oil. Per wiki it really is what you call rapeseed oil, though likely a different variety than yours. (Some cheeky person has renamed the article and built in a redirect so you can't even search for canola oil, even though that's likely the more common name, and the article uses "canola" nearly twice as much as "rapeseed.") Sunflower oil is great, but I'd have said the flavor is a little strong. Again, that might be a difference of variety, since sunflower oil here is mostly a thing used in Asian cooking. But hey, if chocolate is self releasing, then no need to worry.

On the other hand, if you want to channel Matthew Street and argue with me about food, that'll genuinely make me smile. Man, I miss that argumentative curmudgeon. (I say as an argumentative curmudgeon.) ;)
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I'm fine to stand corrected. I could have sworn we had a brand called canola over here that had a picture of maize on the front, but at the moment I'm also willing to accept my brain is only a rough guide to events. I shall gone on a Google hunt to see what I'm mis-remembering.

Chocolate will self release only if properly tempered. It shrinks slightly as it solidifies. If not properly tempered, it won't. US chocolate is formulated differently, so I don't know how that behaves.

Mazola! The corn oil was called Mazola. That's what I was remembering incorrectly
 
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I think technically, Canola is a brand name well.. It's a sub-species that some USAers came up with so Canola is a Rapeseed oil, but not all Rapeseed oils ARE canola.. but often people mark it as it even if it isn't.. It's like how you get People refer to vacuum cleaners as Hovers (and despite people claiming that Hover were the first main one on the market, they weren't.. they just got more well known... )

Though there are some really wield Food labelling laws in the USA so they can call it Canola Oil on the package when its not. Probebly like how in the UK we have idiots who sell something called 'Turkey Ham' even though HAM is pig, it's not a type of cut of anything. Or that range of pies which claim to be kosher but aren't.. Pucker pies or something.
 
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