Jell-O Castles in the Sky.
June 3rd, 2005
I like to point out to vegans that all film - movie and camera - and lots of medicine all have gelatin. Gelatin, as any geek knows, is made out of animal parts. Back in middleschool, I bet you tried to one-up your friends by telling them you knew what jell-o was made from. Ground up horse parts! Absolutely! Technically it's extracted from boiling ground bones, skin and "tissues," which is french for "other shit." Technically there's a vegetarian alternative called agar-agar derived from seaweed, but who cares about that?
I was out jogging one night and thought to myself, hey, jell-o is cool. I wonder what I could do with jell-o. Well what I came up with was coffee jell-o. I love coffee, I like jell-o. But it turns out that, like most good ideas, someone had already thought of it. Namely a bunch of nasty cookbooks from the fifties. Check here amongst other places. Figures!!! But I did get a lot of good inspiration for, well, just embedding crap in jell-o.
Dice embedded in a shot glass of sugary gelatin. I suppose if I had any bullets, that would've been a bit more "hard core," but the dice works well too.
Jell-O-Schlager! Inspired in part by one of my personal internet heroes, Rob Cockerham, over at Cockeyed (congrats on the family!). The other part of the inspiration would be that jell-o shots are fantastic.
Jell-O-Schlager is actually really, really pretty kinda-sorta good. I think if I were actually making it for consumption I would just use a strawberry or cherry Jell-O instead of plain gelatin. But the cinnamon kick was really pretty darn nice, and if it weren't so expensive, I'd make Jell-O-Schlager all the time!
Jabba ain't got nothing on me on encasing "people" in "things" because I've encased 14 LEGO people and a LEGO horse in Jell-O. That's got to get me some sort of recognition right? Unfortunately this one (since I was tipsy and guessing and the measurements anyway) didn't turn out quite as solid as the others....actually it wasn't bad it just kind of stuck to the mold a little too much. Dip the molds in hot water before trying to slip the jell-o out of them. It really helps. If your mold has any fine details, don't let them sit too long, because technically the heat is melting the jell-o and you'll lose a lot of that detail.
Fly, you fools!
Here's my Coffee Jell-O with whipped cream and coffee beans....Apologies for the crappy pictures. Here's my Translucent Turd Log with whipped cream and dingleberries. Honestly, to eat, this was really really good. Bitter straight, because I hardly added any sugar to the plain gelatin. But taken with some of the whipped cream (read: cream and sugar) it was really pretty darn good. Who knows? I may make this again some time!! I just have to find a mold better fitting to the stature of "coffee jell-o," for example something that doesn't look like poo.
DO NOT DO THIS!!! Not only did the light strand not light up any more, but the vast majority of these Christmas strands have wires and wire coating which contain LEAD. Poisonoonononous lead. So, hey, I thought it would look pretty and it didn't. It looked like shite, didn't light, and rendered an entire package of jell-o completely inedible.
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