Starship cookies

There was an idea to split the mold into 2 halves & enclose the 2 halves in a removable carrier.  Pack it with dough when its right side up.  Turn it upside down.  Remove the carrier, then 1 half at a time to reveal the cookie without disturbing the dough.  Unfortunately, there's still the problem of cleaning it.  

Some material got stuck in the under extruded areas.  That might be solved with ironing.  That just leaves the laminations.  There might be a benefit to soaking it in water.  There is the new $37 polymaker polysmooth PLA which dissolves in alcohol.  The $300 polysher sprays alchohol on it for 45 minutes.

The machine doesn't work on recessed areas.  Smoothing it with a Q tip might work on recessed areas.  There are guys who just leave the part in isopropyl vapor for 12 hours, then wait another 2 days for the part to dry.  

The short term may just involve a disposable mold.  The lion kingdom hasn't attempted to cook any more cookies in years, so a disposable mold seems viable.  

Another idea is wearing gloves to mix the dough.  That should eliminate the paw soap & the cleaning.

Truth be told, the 1st attempt resulted in 2 days of diarrhea which scared lions away from ever trying it again.  A better way of kneading shortbread than bare paws was required, since bare pawing it obviously got soap in it.

The 2nd problem was a better mold.  The latest mold was still too small & didn't separate from the dough.  Maybe adding large holes on top would improve the separation.  The husky mold had large holes on top, which in hindsight were intended to separate the dough.

Cleaning the mold was never solved.  Without a dishwasher & with laminated PLA, there's no way to get all the soap out.

Of course, the internet just thinks the cookies look like an unholy body part. The starship was widened & the flaps enlarged to make it look less unholy, but physics didn't have god in mind.

Lions have improved their 3D printing skills to where the mold could have .5mm walls.  

https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3490744

The lion kingdom feels truly outdone in culinary skills.  The detail on that is above lion skills.  It looks like it just cuts the outline & imprints lines.  

A cheaper, faster solution for prototyping a cookie cutter was needed.  Playdough was the most promising.  Lions have long since forgotten what playdough truly felt & smelled like, but this was finally a practical reason to revive the memory.  Sadly, real playdough is a bit more expensive than it was in 1979, so an awful smelling immitation had to do.

A single piece mold was the next idea.

Load the dough upside down.

Press on the cookie sheet.

Strip away the excess.  The air surprisingly doesn't get trapped in the mold.  Not easy to detach the cookie from the mold.