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Matching on Citric acid · Pantry / purchased

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The classic kitchen bioplastic: starch, water, vinegar and glycerine, cooked to a clear gel and poured thin.

Heat milk, curdle with vinegar, drain, and press the curds. Dries into a dense, bone-hard plastic like early 1900s Galalith.

Fruit peel blitzed with a binder into a sculptable putty. Each fruit gives a different tone and scent.

A pH-sensitive dye that shifts from pink to blue to green as acid or alkali are added.

Curdled milk mixed with baking soda becomes a strong, water-resistant glue, traditionally used on furniture.