Materials:Easy Squeeze Frosting

From Fab @ Home

Jump to: navigation, search

Contents

Material Data For Easy Squeeze Frosting

Member of Material Category: Edible Materials

Description

Image of Easy Squeeze Frosting in container as purchased

Image of Easy Squeeze Frosting as extruded from syringe

This is commercially available cake decorating frosting available in the United States from most grocery stores. This particular type is known as "Easy-Squeeze", typically made by Betty Crocker, Inc., and comes in a tube with a plastic screw cap. The material extrudes well through a variety of taper tip diameters, and serves as a good support material for epoxy parts, including FabEpoxy. It will inhibit crosslinking (curing) of 1-part silicone materials, however.

Recipe and/or Vendors

Vendors

  1. ShopFoodEx.com, USA internet grocery retailer, US$3.81, 6oz.
  2. Available in most grocery stores in the USA.

Tool Parameter Files

  • To make use of these tool configuration files, save them in the "Tools" folder of your Fab@Home Application Folder, and restart the application, or reload the tool files using the application menu command.
  • Please name the tools files as:

"MaterialName_TipInternalDiameterInMicrometers_NeedleOrTaper.tool" - see examples below

  • If your file is for a 2-syringe tool machine, please include the prefix Right_ or Left_ to the file name.
  • Please include your name and a revision date as comments in the tool file so that others can consult with you
  • To upload files, please compress them first - the wiki will not allow .tool file extensions.

Files

Techniques and Examples

Please upload pictures of successful use of this material, e.g. a part or support structure made with the material.

Images

An EasySqueeze support structure for a silicone sphere.

Techniques and Notes

Filling the syringe barrel is best done from the top. Open the frosting container, and insert the neck of the container into the top of the syringe barrel, pressing it tightly to form a seal. Squeeze the frosting into the syringe barrel. When you reach the desired amount, gradually withdraw the container neck from the barrel while still squeezing until the frosting is flush with the top of the syringe barrel. This will allow you to insert the syringe piston without trapping air between the piston and the frosting.

The frosting contains a large fraction of air, and so the parameters for deposition will vary with the amount of material in the syringe. We recommend working with a 1/2 full syringe only. Completely full syringes of this material are very difficult to control.

Properties

Please list known physical, mechanical, electrical, thermal, and chemical properties of Easy Squeeze Frosting here or link to an electronic source of information.

Links to Properties

Physical Properties

Mechanical Properties

Electrical Properties

Thermal Properties

Chemical Properties

Safety Information

Please upload or link to a Materials Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) here, or provide any information that you can on storage and use hazards, safe handling procedures, safety equipment, etc.

MSDS Files

  • [[Media:Edible Materials_Easy Squeeze Frosting_MSDS.pdf|Please upload a PDF of the MSDS here]]

MSDS Links

Retrieved from "http://fabathome.org/wiki/index.php/Materials:Easy_Squeeze_Frosting"