Sweet Sustainability
Bioplastic made from Honey
Why Honey? Idea here is to replace glycerol. Usually bioplastic recipe includes use of glycerol. Glycerol is colorless essential sugar alcohol. It adds flexibility in to bioplastic structure. At this work idea is to try replace glycerol with honey - it worked quite nice :) Honey gave flexibility, even shining, and some warm color.
P.S. Still recommend buy glycerol - it is cheap and you can easily order it from internet in some kitchen staff shop. Why you need it? In to BioWorkshop are coming recipes with a glycerol :)
Properties of Honey Bioplastic: Sweet, flexible, smells like honey, colour is light yellow, completely dissolves in water.
Instructions
Ingredients
Potato Starch 15 g
Gelatin (in powder form - you can find it in any bakery part in shop) - 20 g
Crown of the Recipe - HONEY 100ml
Better to use some super cheap, liquidish consistency
Water 200 ml
Vinegar 10% 10 ml (4 teaspoon)
+some some food colorant if you want make the plastic even more unic :)
In that recepi we did not use it to see real colour of Honey Bioplastic :)
What to do
STEP 1:
In the pot mix water and starch until it dissolves. Put pot on the stove with a middle temperature.
STEP 2:
Add gelatin, mix well
Add vinegar
Add a colour if you wish
Add honey
Mix well and take pot away when mass will boil like that
Transform the liquid on some surface, for example silicone form. In case at home no silicone form solution is to use oiled oven tray :)
Pore honey plastic on the form
STEP 3:
Make honey plastic area as straight as possible
Let it dry in room temperature 24 hours
STEP 4.
Accurately remove bioplastic from the surface! Ready :)))
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November 2023, Theme: Bioplastic
Recipe by Elizaveta Lingonberg