Is there any chance Galaxy Or Starlight PLA are as "food safe" as normal PLA?

[sour nacelle]

I was thinking of making some cookie cutters from polymaker and was deciding on a color. I already happen to have a roll of starlight neptune and galaxy dark red and those would look amazing as cookie cutters but dont want anything toxic. And yes I already understand that FDM printing in and of itself is not food safe in the long term, that's not what I mean.

[charred willow]

I think you should be fine most filaments are non-toxic, Personally I won't care too much about the looks of a cookie cutter but I also don't bake much.

I have heard of people using Saran wrap around 3d printed cookie cutters too

[icy cosmos]

Assuming your going to cut dough and not the baked or hot cookies, any cold plastics are going to be very ‘food safe’ as-in I would feed it to my family. The baking process kills most bacteria you will encounter, and the bacteria that can handle that heat is going to contaminate your whole kitchen no matter what baking or cleaning or cooking you do.

Commercially with a food license, ehhh, Saran wrap might be a good choice. Many Etsy sellers use any old materials to print and sell cookie cutters and I have yet to hear any consequences.

There are a few plastics that leech when heavily exposed to oils that are commonly in cookie batter BUT I also have never heard of any of that esoteric material being used in any 3D printing materials.

[rose cove]

I think the concern with many people is repeated use, and the ability to sanitize most of these PLA prints won't be able to hit the sterilization temperature needed

[sour nacelle]

I just want to make sure theres no chance for toxic stuff. Would love to see a starlight holographic cookie cutter though. Im planning on using a double layer of plastic wrap around it or if possible a ziplock bag to keep it clean.

but im just paranoid and also people are dumb and dont listen to you whenyou give the a gift with instructions lol

[icy cosmos]

If you wipe it clean and it dries completely 99.99% of bacteria will die, especially for what ingredients are expected and normal handling of cookie dough should be pretty clean. Luckily most plastics are not ‘toxic’ in the traditional sense and definition of toxic. Before plasticizing maybe some ingredients in plastic could be but not after plasticizing.

It would be much more of a concern if the consumers hands are clean when picking up and eating a cookie. Even if you ate off a PLA plate with Hot food, any contact or leeching or flavoring is not going to be Toxic; similar to the same way crayons with all the glitters, metallics, scents are labeled ‘non Toxic’.

[rose cove]

Thanks

[charred willow]

Oh yes another thing to keep in mind is that some cookie recipe's sorta will just melt into a blob if the cutter is too detailed. Still will taste like good cookies but will look kinda crappy

[sour nacelle]

Yeah i made that mistale with my first cookies