Let's Crowdsource a Recipe for a Fat Replica! :)

heykatieben

Hey yos - I'd love to have a 10lb fat replica, but I'm definitely not paying the price for one on Amazon. They're expensive!

So.. who wants to get together and figure out how to make one, in this thread? I've come up with a few ideas/steps:

1 lb = 2.13 cups of volume. So 10lbs - 21.3 cups' worth. Yellow food dye and maybe some little red chunks would get it the right color. Now, what to make it out of, that would be about the right consistency?

Play doh? Crisco? Some kind of mix? Crisco's not quite solid enough, but it's at least mostly fat. Rubber? Is there a way to make something rubbery at home?

heykatieben

Nobody?

minizebu

I would trip down to my local art store and ask them for ideas. They may have some sort of instant foaming product that you can spray to fill a mold (maybe made out of aluminum foil?). I don't know, I'm just talking off the top of my head, here.

I have thought before about going down to a meat market and asking to see X pounds of pork back fat, to get a visualization of what that looks like, but I've never gotten around to it.

heykatieben

Ooh, that's a good idea, going to a meat market... cool

janeite1990

Maybe you can combine something with the instant foam-aluminum foil mold idea so that you have a heavier core with the foam on the outside. You might also check Hobby Lobby or Michael's or another craft store.

Fun project!

Good luck!

Jaulen

Just look at a pound of butter.

Go to the grocery store, stack 10 pounds of butter, and there you go!

hmarks5195

Since Crisco is almost identical in volume/weight, what about coloring it and putting it in quart-size baggies (and then refrigerating them so it's a little more 'solid'?)? They can squish it a bit, hold it against their tummy or thigh and think, "I was complaining because I ONLY lost 1 lb?!!?" I think a 1-lb and a 5-lb would be very effective, also a 10-lb bag of potatoes is a great reminder just how hard it is on our bodies to even carry a little bit of extra weight around!

PaulB153

Hey, its now 2020.....did you guys figure out how to make 5 or 10 lbs of a fat replica?

VenomousOsculation

I'm looking to do this when I came across this, I was thinking some sort of gelatine mixture with yellow food colouring.

Jasice9999

DIY slime recipe. Glue water contact solution you can make it harder or softer depending on the ratios

MargaretYakoda

Jasice9999 wrote: »

DIY slime recipe. Glue water contact solution you can make it harder or softer depending on the ratios

Check YouTube for how to make your own silicone models.

You mix silicone caulking with corn starch.
Color it, stick it in a baggie to mold it like fat.
Boom. Done.