3D Printing a CHOCOLATE GRIDFINITY of LOVE!!

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I printed a Gridfinity out of chocolate and gave it to Brooke for Valentine's Day. Normally I try to add more details here in the description, but that kinda sums it up. I came, I saw, I ate a boat.
Community projects featured:
🧱Gridfinity Parametric Web Generator by Vector76: vector76.github.io/Web_OpenSC...
💍Gridfinity Ring Holder by Link the Cat - thangs.com/designer/Link%20Th...
💫Fidget Spinner One Piece Print by Muzz64 mmf.io/o/33162
🕯️Gridfinity for Tea Candle by SteveW91 www.printables.com/model/2935...
🌳Joint Holder 2x1 by Propella than.gs/m/62103?...
🍶Gridfinity Bottle by NKCVic than.gs/m/62763?...
🌊Gridfinity 3D benchy stand by Emboli www.printables.com/model/3695...
☁️Benchy Steam Puff by www.printables.com/model/3607...
Timetable:
00:00-00:40 What Hath I Wrought
00:40-02:06 Thanks Brilliant
02:06-04:21 Why are Chocolate Printers
04:21-07:29 You Go Glen Cocoa
07:29-08:39 What We're Printing
08:39-10:42 Chocolate Sucks for Printing
10:42-12:20 Printing Chocolate Gridfinity
12:20-15:34 The Build, Part 1
15:34-16:23 The Baseplate (not chocolate)
16:23-19:43 The Build, Part 2
19:43-24:11 Showing Brooke and Thanking You
Credits:
"frosting" (MakerBot Cupcake footage) by ugpdotorg • frosting
"Cupcake CNC - Starting a Print" by MakerBot • MakerBot Support | Cup...
"Cocoa Press 3D Chocolate Printer" by Cocoa Press
• Cocoa Press 3D Chocola... "6 Advanced FDM 3D Printing Tips When Adding Metal Parts to Your Build" by TriMech • 6 Advanced FDM 3D Prin...
"Roundabout" by Yes ©️ Rhino/Elektra
"Forty Percent Leadbelly" ©️ 20th Television Animation and The Curiosity Company
“Chocolate with Nuts” ©️Nickelodeon and United Plankton Pictures
Power-up SFX: I couldn't find the rightsholder. Remixed from Epic Meal Time.
Interference SFX: Partners in Rhyme
Other SFX: www.zapsplat.com

[@zakm0n]

I'm pretty sure I'm the first one who printed a chocolate gridfinity bin. Posted it in the discord and no one really reacted to it. The CocoaPress discord lost their minds over it

[@eponinesg]

Omg we totally missed it! We're monsters! Our bad, sorry friend! 😬

[@StoneBox_761a]

Heh, goes to show that popularity and branding does do all of the work...

[@thecyberquake618]

Shhhh, no you didnt. Zack is always the first

[@ghostblackout1]

That's Cool

[@conflictfree88]

1. You're a badass 2. Pretty sure he specified that he was the first to do it for V-day. You both may have your firsts!

[@PontusWelin]

Sticky oregano should be possible to infuse into palm oil so you can make 3d-printable sticky oregano chocolate! 🌿

[@gothtechsupport2337]

the possibility of 3d printed edibles just blew my stoner mind wide open, we need this now!

[@norkshit]

@@gothtechsupport2337a 3d printed bud-infused chocolate dab rig that you eat after using

[@connman9783]

I need edible edible benchys like NOW. If we can get some good working prototypes that might honestly push me to get the chocolate press.

[@pseudotasuki]

"This print ain't shit"

[@filanfyretracker]

@@connman9783 The grand benchy of demonetization !

[@fableagain]

As a pastry chef in-training, listening to you discover how fiddly chocolate is was a delight. Fun fact: the door to the chocolaterie of a bakery always. stays. closed damnit. If you let it stay open you mess around with the humidity, temperature, airflow... Can't have that.

[@fableagain]

Also damn filling those chocolates was a stroke of genius.

[@fableagain]

Oh and I'm pretty sure you might be able to make your own chocolate cores if you can figure out the fat content of the original cores.

[@MacroAggressor]

@@fableagain There's gotta be a relatively simple density method to get a ballpark on the fat content, right?

[@LIONGOD]

thats why you have a two door system, like a cleanroom

[@noyza2132]

does it have a double door?

[@Z3DT]

"Suspiciously sticky oregano" is my new favorite euphemism for that green stuff that gets you demonetized

[@clonkex]

I'll be honest, I don't know what that would be lol

[@blu3s3wag36]

​@@clonkexits Lucifers salad

[@mmmmmmmmmmmmbeepbeepbeep]

excitement lettuce

[@Booksds]

@@clonkexSpider Man’s girlfriend (and I ain’t talking Gwen Stacy)

[@MandrakeFernflower]

Jazz Cabbage

[@nekoettechan5433]

oh i SO badly want to see a torture toaster printed in chocolate

[@AQDuck]

You're really bad at disguising yourself, Satan.

[@m4rcyonstation93]

Man this sucks *chomp*

[@BurntMemoriesAlt]

This comment makes me want to buy a cocoa press for this exact purpose

[@aymangani5416]

Oh my god…

[@justinbanks2380]

14:11 "This was a real pain in the butt, so it's very important you're proud of me!" Ah yes, the desire to have hard or difficult work at least appreciated never ceases and is all too often ignored

[@g0mmyg0mmyg0m]

holding out for the chocolate hextraction

[@bartz0rt928]

resized to use maltezers as marbles?

[@m4rcyonstation93]

When a ball passes through this tile: share the tile between the whole group and start chowing

[@thestickmahn2446]

maltezers are too variable in size maybe gumballs?@@bartz0rt928

[@TemenCMoth]

I feel like the fridge model still has a lot of promise with professional kitchens/bakeries. Compound chocolate is more stable, and it can taste good, but chefs/bakers can be pickier when it comes to taste.

[@KingJellyfishII]

I'm not sure why but I cannot stand compound chocolate, it physically makes me sick. So I'd love one that was built in a fridge. I was thinking, what if you had a fan blow a stream of supercooled air (from liquid nitrogen or something) at the chocolate in a regular enclosure, rather than fridging the whole thing?

[@ericlotze7724]

It did seem like a great design, just hard to get people to get (ie momentum/reputation is hard to get from nothing) and/or the market isn’t *too* huge. I would 100% have one or more in my Dream *Giant* Makerspaces’ Culinary (or Confectionery?) Section.

[@ericlotze7724]

@@KingJellyfishIIThis has me imagining a Continuous Inkjet Printer but with Dipndots instead of Ink Droplets lol.

[@SuperSmashDolls]

Now I wish there was UV-reactive candy syrup so we can have MSLA candy printing along with our FDM chocolate

[@ericlotze7724]

Any way to control how sugar crystallizes? I am *thinking* of something like a Cloud Chamber or Bubble Chamber, but idk if Sugar can be supersaturated like that and/or be able to be initiated by UV Light (or Ionizing Radiation in General)

[@ericlotze7724]

Could always CNC Mill a Sugar Cube WAIT Binder Jetting, or as i like to call it “Powder Bed and Inkjet Head” (aka PBJ Printing) could work potentially Also one of those Open Source SLS Machines used Sugar if i remember correctly, granted didn’t have the best resolution, also probably partially burns/caramelizes due to being a thermal process.

[@BurntMemoriesAlt]

"UV-reactive candy" is not a string of words I expected to read today but here we are

[@GeneralNickles]

8:33 bold of you to assume no one has eaten a gridfinity box before.

[@BurntMemoriesAlt]

Underrated comment, you have attained the humor award.

[@OldManSparkplug]

It's important to note that Brooke's hair is spectacular before anything else. You're a good dude Zack.

[@nuclearsu]

RAHHH I LOVE MEN.. I MEAN CHOCOLATE

[@xapu8775]

both!

[@arubberroomwithrats]

realest comment ever

[@lem860]

So true bestie

[@LocusNevernight]

I LOVE COCK. I MEAN CHOC

[@nuclearsu]

​@@lem860 everyone likes chocolate i guess

[@littlegrabbiZZ9PZA]

For the record, that albinoblacksheep reference *did* make me feel old.

[@VagabondTE]

Same.. 😑

[@MartinBorquezJr]

I was on albino black sheep working overnight at a computer lab in college when 9/11 started

[@Resyektt]

Sch-one, sch-two, schfith-teen-teen…

[@yikmop]

IVE GOT BIG LUNG CAPACICITY

[@bosstowndynamics5488]

Another fun fact about the Cocopress - it's based on the Voron 0, so it's very fitting that it's a fast printer

[@Simte]

The only cannon Wonka origin story we need.

[@miss_adventure]

Shoutout to the science polycule

[@boneappletee6416]

Are you really in a polycule if there isn't a scientist from a mysteriously-niche field in it too?

[@Srt3D01-db-01]

Your wife: ok I get it, gridfinity everything 😂 And yeah we all know that feeling with only 3dprinting has on us 😅

[@oculicious]

"You can fascinate a lady by presenting her with a piece of cheese"

[@WantedVisual]

I'm just waiting for this thing to result in a collab with Anne Reardon that culminates in wasabi chocolate and submerging the printer into everclear.

[@Jortpower2009-ev8io]

now thats a valentine gift i can get behind, a heart attack amount of chocolate

[@All_Will_Be_Crab]

Fun fact: the mars company has a specific ratio of m&m colors that they claim to follow, and they aren't lying. My high school statistics class did a chi-squared analysis that found that there was a chi-square value of about 70, which means there is no statistical difference between the observed and expected values.

[@palmberry5576]

I mean, that’s not really surprising at all

[@Its-Just-Zip]

Zack, I am simultaneously disappointed and very impressed with you insert spongebob chocolate meme here

[@VagabondTE]

I'm subscribed to her personal channel and she hasn't posted in a while so I was getting worried the launch hadn't gone well, but I guess she's just super busy. Awesome sauce.

[@boneappletee6416]

Open sauce is the awesomest sauce

[@thingswelike]

Still the best scriptwriter on KZbin. And yes, I want alliterations!

[@-AT-WALKER]

That was by far the best promotional advert I've seen on this platform and the endorsement of the cocoa press was 👌 They should send you surprise supplies, enough to print the first multi part, mega size, over designed easter egg perhaps? Well played, Sir. Well played!

[@sleepymeghz]

This is my favorite! So impressed by the final product. Happy Valentine's Day Brooke and Zack!!! ❤❤❤

[@PODLine]

I'm proud of you. Her joy was worth all the hard work

[@alexandergmzx]

14:30 I knew your head was full of pop rocks! That is a magnificent calibration of such a hard 3d printer! I have seen other prints of cocoa press and none are so exact and well-shaped as your prints. Experience makes perfect.

[@kelseyastra9607]

Hey, really proud of you for the filled grid pucks, Zack! Hope you and Brooke had a lovely Valentine's!

[@guybarros]

we are always proud of you! this is awesome

[@BillieRuben]

I'm proud of you Zack! 😁

[@Der_Ed]

You should definitely make a cursed filled gridfinity. Do one with mustard, ketchup or chili sauce.

[@Murphy9904]

I am super proud you did the mid print chocolate color swap!

[@TheQuietPartisLoud]

I was at this Rep Rap, and loved being near this booth because it smelled delicious.

[@Hebdomad7]

This will come great for easter where I can finally have chocolate eggs with exactly 25% infill.

[@SwainixFPV]

that feeling when you drop the punchline "they're custom made 3 perimeter 25% infill eggs" hell yeah

[@SteveRowe]

I'm very proud of you, Zack! I hope you and Brooke have a great valentine's day.

[@Respectable_Username]

This is honestly one of the best Valentine's Day ideas I've ever seen! Chocolate is amazing, handmade stuff is amazing, and so therefore handmade (well, self-printed) chocolate is such an amazing and thoughtful gift for a couple to enjoy together. Good stuff!

[@justinbanks2380]

I come to learn about tech, 3d printers etc. But I always learn things like new vocabulary and in this one, I learn about chocolate and learn how chocolate chips keep their shape even through cooking!

[@jpnmasochist]

15:08 the sound of the shot being taken reminded me of epic meal time

[@williambrown1094]

This is truly the best use for a chocolate printer Now I need one

[@ericlotze7724]

Same.

[@xiggywiggs]

I am immensely pleased to learn I'm not the only person who eats conversation hearts outside of valentine's day. they're honestly my favorite non-chocolate candy! I too always explain it as: they're like a pack of just the good necco wafer candies, without the garbage :D

[@keiyakins]

It's like eating tasty chalk. I mean this in a positive way.

[@barkeaterden]

Best roundabout I've gotten stuck in.

[@GodardScientific]

Your videos never fail to make me smile. Thanks for continuing to make such fantastic content

[@matthewjenkins914]

Wow, that 2-tone chocolate is very impressive! Proud of you Zack

[@oculicious]

I'm proud of you Zack, that was a really amazing two chocolate print

[@gpoleze]

My days have been pretty rough for the past few weeks. Thank you for putting a smile on my face (without the need of a knife and being dressed like a psycho clown ).

[@iznasen]

The world needs a chocolate 3D printer doing this

[@mvadu]

Dude.. All that planning and dedication, and response was "it's all so organized!!" 😂

[@TheSlizzap]

I'm always struck by the writing in your videos. Great jokes and in depth descriptions of technical topics. 👍👍👍

[@D0ses]

8:06 "then it hit me, ive printed alot of crap on this channel" missed opportunity to print cocacrap n eat it

[@stldenise]

Best review of the Cocoa Press! Probably should have saved the ice cream for last🤣

[@justinbanks2380]

6:07 😂 calling out people before they even can start! 😂😂😂

[@heyspookyboogie644]

It’s hilarious he can get through so much alliteration and crazy supporter names and then stumble on just “Michael”

[@wayneswonderarium]

3d printing, twice! And if you fertilize corn, you can turn it into PLA and continue the cycle!

[@justinbanks2380]

4:25 I felt that second 'ever' Anyone who has a hobby has felt the despair/disappointment when someone they care about has no excitement or caring about their hobby thing

[@ericlotze7724]

This crushes my damn hopeless romantic self so frequently goddamn. Granted you know the whole “perfect doesn’t exist” and how all that is part of just life and whatnot but this gets me all Hedgehog Theory / Lonely feeling and shit. MAJOR oof

[@justinbanks2380]

@@ericlotze7724 I feel you

[@qwiggles4154]

I love this video, I laughed so many times, and honestly a little blown away by the gridfinity filled cups! (and I love yall's love of purple)

[@dmhayes6]

This is freaking amazing. A true mad genius.

[@freespam9236]

as my mom is backer i have shown here sine food 3d prints... both chocolate and sugar form some trade show coverages... but it seems that chocolate 3d printing is soon becoming a real thing in culinary world

[@digrat]

+1 for the link to the Gridfinity Parametric Web Generator and +100 to Vector76!

[@outbakjak]

I am very proud of you for your efforts in making fancy white chocolate lettered nameplates for your stupid awesome filling filled chocolate Gridfinity boxes. 💜

[@Ice_Berg]

That Maxamet PM2 looks really knice. Mine likes to patina like crazy just from being in my pocket, I wish it would stay that shiny and clean.

[@pupsi_cola]

Waiting for Reese's to start making STLs and docs for DIY peanut butter cups also 14:10 congration i'm impressed (i really hope you got them on the right ones)

[@ericlotze7724]

*You wouldn’t download a Reese’s* (Also Sidenote i read that in the voice if those annoying ads all over KZbin done by the goddamn *Bojack Horseman VA* ) (And the Irony of them Voicing Ads now is just…)

[@atruepanda1782]

I’m hungry now… and my lunch isn’t for like 90 minutes… and it doesn’t have chocolate organizers…

[@hanfo420]

To be honest, a choco printer priced 1500 USD is a bit of a bad price/performance thing.

[@TrueRewire]

I'm proud of you Zack. Good work.

[@Gio_Panda]

"Excoriate me daddy" is something I did not need to hear. Thanks!

[@KrisAdamsTV]

Proud of you for the two-chocolate color effect on the labels. Fun fact, I print my Gridfinity bins with a quick color change after the floor, so the walls and base+floor are different colors. Looks way nicer than just one color IMO.

[@Yourhumbledictator]

I'm proud of you, you got any extra cones of CO's finest nothing? Sharing is caring!!

[@mindshelfpro]

Lots of my favourite things....a Zach Freedman video, chocolate, 3D printing, and love for the Mrs.❤

[@logantodd5943]

very proud of you for the dual color chocolate Zach. Very smart man, very good at engineering

[@conorstewart2214]

Now you just need a multi toolhead setup with a paste/filling dispenser. Have the printer print the outside out of chocolate and then fill it up automatically. Also what if you do put an enclosure on it and keep it at a constant temperature, that might make it more reliable with changing room conditions. Maybe if the chamber can just keep it cool, not to the extent of a mini fridge, then maybe it would print better.

[@ericlotze7724]

THIS! I think I commented something similar and i agree 100% need a Toolchanger version.

[@bigobigo5045]

Wow that's really cool, good job. Now make an edible circuit board.

[@RedeyesADC420]

love the joints and container

[@colinpeters9237]

I would’ve loved when you showed brook she said “ooh a piece of cheese!”

[@Sycar77]

My pride knows no bounds for your chocolate abilities.

[@shabadooshabadoo4918]

I never conceived of a chocolate 3d printer. But now that I know of it I'm kind of surprised they didn't mastered printing chocolate way before figuring out plastics. This machine could take easter to a whole new level.

[@dddk097777]

You want a cocojet (Hersey and 3d cude collab) 3d printer. I got one collecting dust since I can not find the time to hack the thing to working order.

[@AngelusNielson]

You two are such a cute couple and this was just a cool project overall.

[@Ether_Void]

To be fair the biggest issue with food safety for 3D prints isn't the material but the surface which catches bacteria, fungi etc. in between the layers. Unless it uses toxic pigments or additives basically all plastics used in 3D Printing (ASA, ABS, PLA etc.) should be safe. Easiest method is usually to get a food safe epoxy to coat the prints.

[@ericlotze7724]

I coat mine in Shellac so i get that Extended Release effect from my Microplastic API of Choice (/j Obviously, idk if shellac would work to be honest, might be okay)

[@Ether_Void]

@@ericlotze7724 Should be ok if there aren't any additives mixed in (so the food grade stuff) and its fully dry. It's used in wooden utils (bowls, spoons ...) to close the pores and gaps.

[@fableagain]

I literally binged this channel yesterday cause I realised I'd never watched a some of the videos... Love this timing.

[@tracdanger]

“You may fascinate a woman by giving her a piece of cheese.” The spell comes from Kathryn Paulsen's 1971 book, The Complete Book of Magic and Witchcraft

[@kyrtd]

I haven't heard "Albinoblacksheep" in over a decade. Thank you.

[@thomasrogers8239]

You broke me with nostalgia for albino black sheep. I need to tell my children about this

[@d3c0deFPV]

You had me at "edible gridfinity"

[@edumaker-alexgibson]

I'm going to need to build one of these!

[@LLJW4]

Super proud of you!

[@cryptoerok4851]

So proud!

[@moolder]

I am so proud of you. Really well done 👍

[@alsothejiraguy]

We need more alliteration.

[@odirex]

debating this $2K unit just to print edible d&d monster minis

[@orngjce223]

I would suggest acquiring silicone putty to make negative molds out of regular 3D prints, scrubbing both pre-mold print and post-print mold _extremely_ thoroughly with a dish brush and soap to remove inedible residue, and then pouring in melting chocolate; it's easier, cheaper, and allows more detail.

[@zarro_boogs_found]

Thanks! You are f***ing hilarious as well as informative and uh, kinda weird...but not in a scary "stranger danger" kinda way.

[@codinghuman9954]

all filament is food if your brave enough

[@knightowl3458]

I’m so proud of you Zack!

[@King-Harkinian]

man I love this channel

[@Raven-Creations]

When you said "what should I print? I've printed a lot of crap on this channel", I thought "Oh no, he's going to print an edible turd".

[@Filament-Fusion]

Thanks for Featuring my model (Benchy Steam Puff)!!

[@yo_boi_john4471]

Those 3d printed "Peanut Butter Cups" actually look good af. Like if you would eat.

[@eponinesg]

Can confirm, were delicious

[@Avendesora]

As someone who absolutely adores necco wafers, that description is spot-on

[@p-196]

I thought, Cokiecad is only the website, where you can upload simple graphics to get printable cookie cutters. I didnt know, that they are also fillament manifacturers

[@BlkDragon96]

I am, I am proud. Well done! I am also frustrated. Frustrated you didn’t define which whiskey is being used. For your sake, I hope it is Stranahan’s.