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🧑🍳 Best STL files 3D printed for kitchen tools・Cults
🧑🍳 Best STL files 3D printed for kitchen tools
Download free Kitchen Tools 3D files
Discover our selection of perfectly 3D printable kitchen utensils allowing you to create, store, organize, cut in the kitchen. Your kitchen will now be even more functional thanks to all these 3D printed elements that will make your life easier.
Refrigerator Storage Box Fresh Spacer
Free
Egg Separator (Kitchen)
Free
Bag clips
Free
Angry Bird Egg Cup
Free
Multi-purpose jar dispenser
Free
Dosing cube
Free
DIRECT SQUEEZER
Free
chopstick - Alizee
Free
Suspended spatula holder
Free
Egg Cracker
€1. 02
coffee capsule rail
Free
Funnel.
Free
Measuring Cups
Free
Protège doigts / Finger guard
Free
Fridge Magnet Climbing Gecko
€0.50
Shelf towel holder
Free
Stand for napkins "butterfly"
Free
Hanging jar holder
Free
Crocz... Crocodile Clips / Clamps / Pegs with Moving Jaws
Free
THE DOSETTE KEY
Free
Rotary display for Nespresso coffee capsules
Free
Head Wine
Free
Sponge holder for modern sinks
€1.
30
Nespresso Capsule Holder
Free
Spout
€1.25
Kitchen clock "Coffee time"
Free
pot lid holder
Free
Separating spoon Yellow/White Egg
€0.50
Tassimo - Capsule holder
Free
Abacus | Nespresso Coffee Pod Rack
Free
Meat pie moulder
Free
Wine Glass Holder
Free
Juice Squeezer
Free
Troppi Tappi (a lot of caps!) - personalize your jars
Free
SHARKZ.
.. Fun Multipurpose Clips / Holders / Pegs with moving jaws that bite!Free
Universal spoon-holder
Free
Kitchen drainer
Free
Salt and pepper shaker
Free
Egg Separator
Free
Coffee capsules dispenser
Free
Glass door
Free
Jars from bottles
Free
Screw-in Lemon Mister!
Free
Spice rack
Free
Cereal Scoop
Free
Pawdie Food Dispenser
Free
Vented Funnel
Free
Cold Brew Coffee
Free
Banana Stand - A unique, fun and expandable way to store Bananas!
Egg Cracker
Fruit bowl “Fire”
Fruit bowl “Sun”
Here is our selection of the best STL files for kitchen utensils, all these 3D objects are from the 3D file library Cults and are perfectly 3D printable.
This collection includes free 3D files of many cooking tools and utensils. This room is a place of life, of creation but also a place of work. The 3D printing can make your life easier on these 3 points. You will be able to optimize the storage of your objects thanks to these great STL files, you will also be able to create even more magnificent recipes thanks to the ingenuity of 3D designers who share their creations on Cults.
We remind you that precautions must be taken when using 3D printing in the kitchen.
15+ Useful 3D prints for your kitchen - Practical Print Series
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It's time to put your printer to work with some useful, functional kitchen prints! Aside from creating fun printed models, the true promise of 3D printing is the ability to supplant your purchases with printed alternatives, saving you time and money.
And each of these kitchen-prints can be printed on any decent budget-friendly 3D printer.
This guide covers some of the most useful things to 3D print for your kitchen including kitchen accessories, organization tools, replacement parts, utensils, and more.
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DSkolnik on Thingiverse
This print is brilliant. If your pan lids run for their lives every time you open your cabinet, now you can pin them in place with these wall-mounted lid mounts.
You'll need a few screws whose length depend on the thickness of your cabinet doors. I can't stress how insanely useful these things are.
This is a good opportunity to show your spouse how useful your 3D printing hobby is.
:) Then you can buy more printers. ALL THE PRINTERS.If you have missing or broken shelf pegs, you might not think to print one. These are the little things that slot into the side of the cabinet to support a shelf.
I had a few broken shelf pegs and Home Depot wanted $7 for a bag -- no thanks. with 100% infill and proper print orientation (arrange the peg long-ways), 3D-printed shelf pegs are more than strong enough.
Peg sizing
There are a few different shelf peg sizes, both in terms of peg diameter and depth. Pull out an old peg and use a pair of calipers, ruler, or tape measure to determine the size you need. Or, print a few models and try each until you find the one that works.
Bonus: Each peg only takes about 5 minutes to print.
This is the peg I used, but you can find tons of other sizes with a quick search.
Once you find the right size, print a dozen or so pegs and throw them in a drawer for later!the_mike on Thingiverse
If you're a fan of Nespresso, then you might have thought about shelling out $20 for something that will hold your pods.
Shell out $0.30 instead and print your own! There are tons of great models out there for printing, but my favorite mounts to the wall with a bit of foam tape.
Add as many rows as you have flavors; each one holds an entire sleeve of Nespresso capsules. And because the model requires such little material, these things print super fast.
You can download the model I used from Thingiverse.
Atwgoodman on Thingiverse
If you're a drip coffee fan instead, you can also save a few bucks by printing your own K-cup holder. You can find both tabletop and wall-mounted version on Thingiverse.
cfinke on Thingiverse
This is an obvious one! There are tons of great options for keeping the ol' oven mitts handy. I wanted to find some hooks that would connect to my oven door handle without coming off every time I opened the door. I found a great set on Thingiverse that are looped on one end; I can open the door all day and neither the hooks nor mitts will fall off.
blackllama on Thingiverse
Whats more exciting than sponges? Nearly everything on the planet.
But if you're of pulling your mushy, cold, wet sponge out of the sink, print a sponge holder! Designers have gotten creative so you have your choice of a suction cup-mounted, double sponge holder, or even one with a drain.
Also, tell whoever you live with to squeeze the sponge out when they're done. For reals.mussy on Thingiverse
This one is pretty self-explanatory: it separates the egg yolk from the egg, leaving you with just the whites.
I recommend printing this, and anything else that touches food, using a food-safe 3D printing filament.
jckray on Thingiverse
Every time I buy a funnel for my kitchen, it ends up finding another purpose. No matter, you can print a new kitchen funnel in minutes and be on your way.
Print this one using food-safe filament.
ewap on Thingiverse
Here's another useful kitchen organization print: a cooking ingredient dispenser. Organize your packets with this wall-mounted cooking ingredient dispenser.
t0bi on Thingiverse
This is another common object that I never thought to print until now. Forget buying a paper towel dispenser -- this one will do! Its adjustable hooks attach to any cabinet/board.
Or, if you prefer, you can print a tabletop roll holder or one that mounts using screws.
dmatsumoto on Thingiverse
This towel hook/hanger hangs from your cabinet doors, making your towels more accessible while allowing them to dry more quickly.
mrmacnology on Thingiverse
Holy modularity, Batman! Forget those cheap silverware trays or expensive drawer organizers -- this 3D-printable kitchen drawer organizer is super modular.
You'll still need some wood for this project -- cut some strips to length and 3D print your brackets to customize your drawer as needed.
nanowhisker on Thingiverse
Stop food from clogging the drain by printing a simple drain strainer.
OogiMe on Thingiverse
From Halloween spiders to Star Wars characters, 3D-printed cookie cutters are a great way to get your kids involved in 3D printing!
Don't forget to share.vr50bt on Thingiverse
There's no shortage of kitchens, knives, and other 3D-printable utensils available on Thingiverse. I won't cover them all here because you can simply thing of one and it likely exists.
Remember to use a food-safe printing filament to print anything that you will use to eat. For something simple like a stirrer I recommend ABS; make sure you use a printer, such as the Ender 3, that can print ABS.
For things coming into contact with heat, you'll need a high temperature heat-resistant filament.
hmhamster on Thingiverse
Nothing like drinking and printing.
Make your cocktails amazing by measuring out just the perfect amount of booze! Check out the model on Thingiverse. It's double-sided, allowing you to measure out both 25ml and 50ml.
bq3D on Thingiverse
This one is part art, part organization; each set prints 9 puzzle pieces which you can organize in any way you want. The pieces mount with double-sided foam tape to any surface you'd like.
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We also created a Thingiverse collection containing these models for easy reference later!
Did I miss something?
If you have any favorite 3D-printed objects for your kitchen that you think should be on this list, leave a comment below!
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It's time to spruce up your bedroom with some practical 3D prints.
These gadgets are unique, useful, and guaranteed to provide a new level of utility in your bedroom.
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3D food printing
3D food printing
Who needs it and why?
Today, progress is progressing by leaps and bounds: robots are being invented, medicines for previously incurable diseases, people's lives are getting easier every year more and more. One of the young inventions with broad development prospects is 3D printing. Machine parts that are difficult to make by hand, prostheses and even food are printed
In March, the world was delighted by the news of a breakthrough in the field of cooking: in Sweden (in hospitals and nursing homes) they began to prepare food using 3D printing for those who can no longer chew food on their own. For such people who have difficulty chewing and swallowing food, there used to be only one way out - to switch to a "children's" diet, mashed potatoes, cereals, and so on.
But if, for example, you want normal food, you still need to grind it. And in the end, no matter how tasty it is, aesthetically it will still be disgusting.
“When you have trouble swallowing, you have to settle for food that isn't particularly appetizing. The idea is to make special dishes more attractive by recreating the original shape of the product. That is, the food will look, for example, like a chicken leg, but the consistency will resemble a cream pudding, ”explains Richard Asplund, head of the municipal catering department of the Halmstad district.
The program is currently being implemented on an experimental basis. The project involves researchers from Lund University and the University of Kristianstad, the equipment is offered by Cellink, and 3D printing services are provided by the service bureau Addema.
Residents of nursing homes in Halmstad and Helsingborg will serve as the jury for the pilot project.
So, it's worth understanding how 3D printing appeared, how printing devices work and what prospects await this technology in the future.
How did it all start?
History
1948
1948
The history of 3D printers dates back to 1948, when the American engineer Charles Hull developed a technology for layer-by-layer growth of physical three-dimensional objects. She got the name Stereolithography (stereolithography).
1985
1985
Mikhailo Feigen proposed to form three-dimensional models in layers from film, polyester, plastic, paper, fastening the layers together using a heated roller.
1986
1986
Carl Descartes came up with the idea of sintering powder material (powder polymers, metals, casting wax, nylon) layer by layer with a laser beam.
1987
1987
The world saw the first 3D printer in history.
True, at that time the apparatus was called a "installation for stereolithography".
In 1987, the Israeli company Cubital developed a layered sealing technology.
However, it requires the use of expensive, toxic, and fairly rare polymers.
1988
1988
Scott Crump described the FDM method.
Printers using this technology print objects with a molten thread of a substance (plastic, metal, etc.), which was later used to print food.
1995
1995
Until 1995, 3D printing was used only in industry, until MIT students Jim Bredt and Tim Anderson introduced the technology of layer-by-layer synthesis into the body of a conventional desktop printer.
Early
2000s
Early
2000s
3D Systems also launched its first "home" 3D printer. After that, these devices began to actively penetrate into everyday life.
How does it work?
Technology analysis
The first food from a 3D printer was obtained several years ago using the Fab@Home printer. The heart of the machine is a syringe that works on the same principle as inkjet printers.
Layer by layer, he lays down a viscous liquid, forming an object of a given shape.
The university made the drawings of this printer publicly available, to the delight of many enthusiasts. People began their own experiments with epoxies and silicones. At the same time, gourmets appeared who began to put cheeses, glazes, etc. into the printer. It can use anything that is forced through the head of the syringe.
Instead of repeating already existing organic objects, it is much more important to learn how to create new products with individualized nutritional value.
Let's say a person needs more calcium or omega-3 fatty acids in their diet, why not print out the appropriate foods for them. Van Bomel's team is addressing just such a problem, it is they who are developing food printing technology for people with impaired chewing and swallowing functions. Printed products can use cheaper protein sources. It is more convenient, and besides, the cost of such products will be less.
But a significant obstacle is the slow speed of 3D printing from edible components, after each layer is applied, one or another time is required for it to solidify.
What are printers?
Great variety of food printers
- Pancakebot. Structurally, it is similar to any food 3D printer, but it only prints pancakes of any given shape and immediately fries them;
- Choc Creator 2.0 Plus, Chocola3D, etc. - specialized printers for printing chocolate;
The above examples were taken from the sales site, that is, these printers can already be bought, they have entered the general sales market. But there are also more complex devices that exist almost in a single copy.
- Foodini by Natural Machines is the answer to the eternal question of healthy eating. Foodini users can cook with fresh ingredients, create a variety of pastas, and place them in reusable capsules, which are then printed in any 3D shape;
- Food printer for NASA from SMRC.
Using raw ingredients packaged in capsules, SMRC's food printer can combine different individual ingredients to print a wider variety of foods;
Future prospects
What's in store for this relatively new but rapidly evolving technology? Will it develop in highly specialized areas or will it go to a wide market, or will it succeed everywhere?
3D food printing is not justified these days. But in space it can be a real salvation. Michel Terfansky of the University of Southern California explored this concept in his thesis project. He learned about the occasional annoyance of astronauts on the International Space Station with poor diets. With the help of 3D printers, friends and family could send recipes to Earth messengers. 3D printers will help save space and rid the ship of warehouses of meat and vegetables. Terfansky believes that this technology will make people happier.
Also, 3D printed food can be used to create foods with a specific nutritional value and texture for the elderly that are easy to chew and swallow.
Other uses include home cooking and personalized candy and sweets.
One way or another, 3D printing will one day, if not completely replace the product market, then at least displace a significant part of it. It will become more convenient, less expensive, more environmentally friendly. It will give more opportunities and more problems associated, for example, with device maintenance. Whether this is good or bad is your food for thought.
Text: Koryakina Anastasia, Krylova Lyubov, 2nd year student of the Faculty of Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University
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Home 3D food printers With its help, prostheses, weapons, vehicles and other very useful and technological objects are created. According to most films, our future is scary and wonderful at the same time. What will we see? What do we do? What will we eat?
Since microwave radiation has been emitted to many of us, we have been constantly inventing new ways of cooking.
Now that the world has learned about 3D printing, it's natural that this technology will be used for cooking and make this process easy, or at least more fancy. If you believe the Star Trek movie, then 3D printing will be the only way to cook food in 2,000 years.
Recently, we could not imagine the existence of luminous sneakers with auto-lacing, as from "Back to the Future", and today we have the opportunity to try food from the printer. Just yesterday we learned how to print on disks and photocopied our body parts, and now we are ready to eat technological cuisine.
Modern technologies have made human life much more pleasant, comfortable and easier. Now you can spend more time with your family, have a good time and just have a hobby. You can print any dish, the main thing is to calculate the proportions and add the necessary ingredients. In fact, this is the same printer in which many printed diplomas, only instead of ink it uses food ingredients.
And restaurants that only cook with 3D printers already exist! Food Ink opened in London. The owners are sure that the technology helps to save food and not produce unnecessary dishes. The menu includes "Flying Caviar", "Caesar's Flowers of Life", "Mystery Shrimp" for $330.
3D food printing is one of the most desired applications for 3D printers.
In early 2012, Essential Dynamics announced the world's first 3D food printer Imagine Machine. The printer went on sale in 2012 at a price of $3,000. The second generation of food 3D printers is now available on the manufacturer's website for a price of $3795.
A unique novelty - the Foodini device is a real breakthrough in the market of electronics and home appliances. A 3D printer prints not text or objects, but real food.
There are no analogs to such a device in the world yet, so its price is very high. The printer is equipped with Android system and connected to WI-FI. The display size is 7 inches. The device allows you to download various recipes from the Internet and view them.
A food printer costs about a thousand US dollars. The smart machine is able to print pizza, pastry and bakery products. It is also possible to print complex dishes: ravioli with various fillings, for example.
How does the machine work? All the ingredients necessary for preparing the dish are placed in special containers that will be used in the food printing process. You don't need cartridges as such. Foodini prints various dishes, but you also have to participate in the printing process. Now the developers of the model are raising funds for the full-fledged production of such machines.
It takes around $100,000 to get started, and nearly half of that has already been raised.
What is the main difference between Foodini and Imagine Machine? There are also a number of differences in the complex systems, software and user interface.
Potential buyers of such a device are always busy people, catering companies, restaurants and confectionery cafes The developers are sure that their products will be in demand: now the layman will spend less personal time preparing complex dishes.
Moreover, cleaning the kitchen after cooking will take a minimum of time. The development of unique recipes is carried out by chefs who have several top culinary awards.
The main idea that inspired the creators of the Foodini food printer is a healthy lifestyle and adherence to the principles of proper nutrition.
Homemade food, which is prepared from natural products, affects health much better than the daily multiple absorption of fast food and convenience foods of dubious quality.
The task of such a printer is to facilitate the process of preparing dishes such as dumplings, pizza, shaped cookies, and the like. The printer will extrude the dough onto the moving platform.
The printing technology used by Foodini is FDM, that is, materials are superimposed in layers. The liquid material is placed in five capsules, each of which can contain a different material, and it can be squeezed out with different intensity and temperature. Mass for printing can be prepared using a mixer or blender.
After printing, the dish can be heat-treated: pizza will only need to be placed in the oven, after sprinkling with grated cheese, or dumplings, which will only need to be thrown into water and boiled. The touch screen will help you understand the printing process, which will demonstrate all the capabilities of the printer in full, as well as provide recipes for dishes that you can cook using a unique machine.
Chocolate Printer
Food is printed in layers by baking or cooling.
Modern food printing allows you to work in the following areas: print with sugar syrup, print with chocolate, print pancakes or ice cream, print cheese and pasta. It is worth noting that you can print chocolates, but you will have to melt the chocolate for them yourself.
What are the models of food printers?
Digital Chocolatier : as the name suggests, the main ingredient of the capsules will be melted chocolate. It has the form of a carousel platform, with containers. The platform cools the layers of chocolate and forms a three-dimensional image or candy.
Layer-by-layer printing with chocolate is complicated by the fact that liquid hot chocolate hardens slowly, and the figure must go through several stages of coating with melted chocolate mass. Such a car costs about 3,000 English pounds. It is called the miracle of technology Chock Edge Creator V1 .
Cornucopia : Prints dishes with multiple ingredients.
The platform can both cool and warm dishes - that is, there is no need for additional preparation of printed food. The same applies to the tubes through which the mass flows.
Digital Fabricator : you put nutrients into the extruder and the mixer shapes them according to the recipe.
Cornell : any liquid and semi-liquid substances are used. The basis is a culinary syringe.
ChefJet . Creates sweets by mixing powdered natural food coloring, alcohol and water. Printers of this type will be excellent helpers for professional bakers, confectioners and those who often work with shapes and inscriptions made of various types of chocolate. To make it easier to work with a complex apparatus, the creators have built in the recipe book The Digital Cookbook. Such a machine will be able to print chocolate sweets with the taste and smell of vanilla, mint, apples or cherries. The starting price of such a printer is about 5 thousand dollars.
The improved ChefJet Pro creates colorful sweets with combined flavors. The price of the device is 10 thousand dollars. The apps work on both Android and iOS systems. The user selects a recipe on the touch panel, and the printer will tell you which crushed ingredients to load into which capsule. Food printer specifications: Print area dimensions: 25.0 cm W x 16.5 cm D x 12.0 cm H. Weight: just over 10 kilograms. Touchpad: 7 inches running OC Android. Internet connection support: Wi-Fi module. Rotary glass platform: diameter 26 cm. Capsules: 5 capsules with different fillings can be placed in the printer at the same time. The printer uses only one capsule at a time. Capsules are automatically replaced. The material from which the capsule is made is at the choice of the consumer. It can be steel or safe and high temperature resistant plastic. The capacity of the capsule is a little over one hundred milligrams. The total capacity of 5 capsules is 615 ml.
The British have developed a device that prints raspberries for breakfast for children The author of the development, Vaiva Klnikite, says that natural raspberry juice, calcium, which helps strengthen bones, and sodium alginate solution, which forms a thin film of gelatin, are used in the process. thanks to which the product is formed faster and easier.
Printed raspberries look a bit like red caviar. To taste, a healthy breakfast really resembles raspberry marmalade and smells exactly like this berry. With the help of natural food dyes, you can change the color and taste of the finished product. The creators admit that in the process of testing the device, they once received a square blue berry that had the taste and smell of a banana.
The goal of the developers is to expand the boundaries of human touch. The printer is similar to the replicator machine that appears repeatedly in one of the popular TV shows. Also, a team of scientists involved in the development of devices for cooking healthy food, are struggling with the problem of cancer and diabetes.
As part of the project, a team of scientists is working on an analysis of the diet of the average citizen, and is looking for ways to make food and cooking the most useful and simple. Scientists are sure that each of us individually lacks nutrients and trace elements. A “nutrition dossier” will be developed for each person.
The prospect is very encouraging - the company plans to create a scanner that will analyze the general condition of the body and suggest which foods are best to include in the diet. The microwave ovens familiar to all of us are gradually, right before our eyes, becoming a thing of the past.
Barilla, the top quality Italian pasta maker, recently announced that it plans to equip its restaurant chain with a 3D printer over the next few years.
What is the essence of the innovation? A guest, a visitor to an establishment, makes an order, and the food is prepared literally within a couple of minutes.
The project will be prepared in cooperation with TNO Eindhoven.
Kjeld Van Bommel, project curator for TNO, confirmed that they have been working with Barilla for two years to bring the idea to fruition.
Several printers have already started working in catering establishments, and work is underway to improve the taste of the produced pasta and the technical characteristics of the device.
Barilla is one of the world's leading pasta producers. By using 3D printing technologies in the production process, they have become even more popular and are absolutely confident that 3D printing will soon become mainstream.
The main thing in such technological processes is the high speed of cooking. The undoubted advantage of such printing of food products is that the paste can be given absolutely any shape - the widest field for creativity opens up Van Bommel, one of the immediate project managers, says: “Modern technologies have significantly expanded the possibilities of design art and embody the most daring individual wishes of the customer .
” So, a person can please a loved one by ordering pasta in the form of a bouquet of roses in a restaurant.
At the moment, such models as "Rosa Pasta", the author of which was the designer from France Lori Tupin, have gained particular popularity. Pasta is made in the form of a flower, which opens during the cooking process. Danilo Spiga and Louis Fraguardo developed the Vortipa concept, which resembles a tartlet. "Lune" was invented by the Italian Alessandro Carbine. In this case, the craters will need to be filled with traditional tomato sauce.
3D printing technologies are already creating parts for various mechanisms, bridges and even entire houses. But the technology seems to have much more potential, and it could be used in the food industry. At least that's what scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem think, who created the first 3D food printer capable of printing food.
According to the inventors Odeda Shoseyov and Ido Braslavsky, the manufacturing process of such printers is not that difficult, and it may take no more than 5 years to enter the mass market.
Their 3D food printer uses nanocellulose, proteins, fats and carbohydrates as raw materials. Right now, the printer can only print dough, but the researchers say their printer is capable of more.
Scientists have been studying nanocellulose for several years and came to the conclusion that the enzymes of the digestive tract easily digest this substance, and nanocellulose itself does not cause any adverse reactions. In the future, experts will mix nanocellulose not only with nutrients, but also with vitamins, trace elements and antioxidants. Under the influence of temperature from the printer's laser, the nanocellulose binds the ingredients. At the same time, laser processing allows you to give the printed dish a more “traditional” look.
According to the inventors themselves, their development is quite promising. In addition to its use in cooking, it will help those who adhere to a strict diet - diabetics, vegetarians, professional athletes, allergy sufferers, and so on.
In general, all those to whom the presence of certain substances in food can be harmful to health.
During the Experimental Biology 2018 conference, South Korean scientists presented a very unusual development, which in the future claims to be an integral part of the household equipment of an apartment.
3D printing technologies have either already occupied certain niches or will occupy them in the coming years. There are a lot of applications for the technology - from the construction of space stations and lunar bases, to the printing of human organs, however, the development of a group of scientists from South Korea is a little more mundane. We are talking about 3D printing of food.
The device is capable of reproducing the physical properties of food products, and most importantly, their nanoscale texture. To work, the printer uses powder ingredients obtained by grinding nutrients, primarily proteins and carbohydrates, at a temperature of -100 degrees Celsius.
