Jelloing a mug
Ok, so this isn't anything especially new or original (The Office was my inspiration on this one!) but I thought I'd put a few comments up here with my lessons learned. Ok, so first we had a target. A coworker has a coffee mug that he really likes, but he leaves it all over the place. We had to do some weekend work, so it was the perfect opportunity to thoroughly encase his mug in a bowl of jelloy goodness.
The plan:
Use multiple colors: Red, Blue, Green to give a nice, layered look
Use a chopstick and fishing line to suspend the mug perfectly in the center of the bowl
Use a Kitchen Aid 6qt mixing bowl as the holder
How things went:
Well, first off, we didn't have anywhere near enough jello. I thought that 6 large boxes would be enough. I found out that I probably needed to double that. You can't use the recipe that's on the box because it'll come out way to runny. It needs to be firmer or it's not worth the effort. Unfortunately, I learned that after the fact. The 6 boxes covered most of the mug, but the handle was still protruding from the top.
So, the logical thing to do is get more jello. So I did. A lot of it. I got this Knox clear jello and used a ton of it for what would end up being the base of the creation. One downside to this particular part was that it smelled. Bad. Really bad. Like something died kind of bad. But, being the troopers we are, we soldiered on through it knowing that the ends would justify the means.
We let it sit overnight in the fridge and then flipped it over on a plate to extract our glorious work. This is when we ran into another, little, problem. It wouldn't come out. We ended up getting a hairdryer, warming the bowl (possibly a little too much in places...) to get it to slide out.
The end result? Outstanding. It looked like a giant purple blob with a coffee mug embedded inside. Did it come out the way we thought it would? Absolutely not!
The birthday candles, somewhat mutilated, really put the finishing touch on and made the whole exercise even more worthwhile.
The plan:
Use multiple colors: Red, Blue, Green to give a nice, layered look
Use a chopstick and fishing line to suspend the mug perfectly in the center of the bowl
Use a Kitchen Aid 6qt mixing bowl as the holder
How things went:
Well, first off, we didn't have anywhere near enough jello. I thought that 6 large boxes would be enough. I found out that I probably needed to double that. You can't use the recipe that's on the box because it'll come out way to runny. It needs to be firmer or it's not worth the effort. Unfortunately, I learned that after the fact. The 6 boxes covered most of the mug, but the handle was still protruding from the top.
So, the logical thing to do is get more jello. So I did. A lot of it. I got this Knox clear jello and used a ton of it for what would end up being the base of the creation. One downside to this particular part was that it smelled. Bad. Really bad. Like something died kind of bad. But, being the troopers we are, we soldiered on through it knowing that the ends would justify the means.
We let it sit overnight in the fridge and then flipped it over on a plate to extract our glorious work. This is when we ran into another, little, problem. It wouldn't come out. We ended up getting a hairdryer, warming the bowl (possibly a little too much in places...) to get it to slide out.
The end result? Outstanding. It looked like a giant purple blob with a coffee mug embedded inside. Did it come out the way we thought it would? Absolutely not!
The birthday candles, somewhat mutilated, really put the finishing touch on and made the whole exercise even more worthwhile.
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