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Comment on pretty basic but I made myself a less mess espresso basket prep ring thing.

So usually id agree that 3d prints shouldn’t be used for food, but this is a coffee hopper, they’re made from plastic already and I guarantee you the ones we used at Starbucks didn’t get that clean either, it’s fine, just sand it and get rid of those hairs

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Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
3d printing vs injection molding is a huge difference, so it’s not fair to say “they are both made of plastic”.

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- yokonzo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s also not taking a huge amount of friction either, it’s literally just a hopper, walls to gravity feed the shelled beans into the grinder, sometimes it’s okay to step away from the rules a bit and just go, that’ll be fine
  
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  - Maalus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    “rules” are there for a reason. But hey, it’s your health and safety, do whatever you want.
    
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    yokonzo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Yes but common sense is also there for a reason, I would absolutely trust this material to handle very light duty tasks like this. There is a difference between following rules within the boundaries of common sense and spouting them off in any tangentially related scenario without having done any testing yourself or even seeing the product in action. There is simply no way to definitively say “this is a bad idea” without doing microbe tests and comparing it to baseline levels after a period. I think people tend to jump on the not food safe bandwagon a little too readily in this community and I’d rather not see this place become like an average reddit hobby ground
    
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naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah you need moisture for decay. Tiny fines might eventually go rancid in tiny pores and taste or smell a little bad but idk. She’ll be right.

Like it’s not like I clean the burrs that grind the beans much so if rotting was a problem I’d be dead already.

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Grass@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
I use some supposedly food grade filament with a stainless nozzle and dedicated extruder, and after initial finishing they get a dip in food grade epoxy. I only made star wars and penis shaped cookie cutters though.

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