Have any of you cooked food on your heated printer beds?

[the123Dprint]

This is far away from the subject of squirting plastic but here goes, i have heard of people keeping their cup of coffe hot with a 3d printer but have any of you cooked on it?

[MB3D]

Wouldn’t recommend that, the chance that you’ve leftover adhesives on the bed is too high! Also do you want to risk having leftover burned pieces of scrambled eggs or pancakes stuck on your printbed?

[the123Dprint]

nope, but you could have two glass beds, one for printing one for cooking.

[Arnoldas]

Yeah, I am very surprised they haven’t came up with some sort of multi-functional 3D printer/Cooking pan on Kickstarter yet.

[Dhin]

I have used mine to heat the screen on a table or two and a few phones, it works really well for removing a broken screen without breaking your casing.

But no food… I’ll get back to you on how it handles grilled cheese.

[smallnetd]

I have thawed out frozen food on it. I had run out of LP gas for my stove and I don’t have a microwave oven (broke a few days ago). The heated bed is set at 100C and it was plenty to thaw it out and warmed it enough to eat. It took 30 minutes, but it was still faster than most prints I do. It was on a pan, not directly on the glass platform.

[the123Dprint]

This guy knows how to cook!

[the123Dprint]

Lol, that is neat. Also, may the cheese melt and thy crust turn crisp. Good luck with the grilled cheese sandwich.

[Dhin]

My daily lunch time prayer.

[JothamB]

As an owner of a printer with a 500Watt 240v mains powered silicon heater, no cooking on it has happened yet but with the high power rating and a top rated temperature of 200C it shouldn’t be a problem xD Pancakes anyone?

[smallnetd]

If you were serious about the pancakes, you would only need to add a paste extruder to it and you’d be in business.

[flowalistik]

In my case, not cooking, just keeping my tea warm while I had to calibrate another printer. That and when I arrived home from a ride on motorcylce on a cold rainy day I usually placed my hands on the heated bed for some minutes. I think that counts as a microwaves de-frost option.

[DesignGuyJared]

Out of propane and a broken microwave… but still has a fully functional 3D printer. Priorities in the right place!

[smallnetd]

You could say that, but it was more like I did not notice that I was out of propane until stove did not turn on… right when I wanted to cook. As for the microwave oven, sh¡t happens as best described by Murphy. Putting it in the printer was a last ditch effort to avoid going out on a cold night. Plus, just why not. Still, the printer is on the high priority list of things that must work for a happy home.

[smallnetd]

Have an upvote for being resourceful and practical. I’d give you another for being a rider, but limited to 1.