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Matching on Lemon peel · Kitchen waste

Properties we’ll match against: P05, P17, P22. Sorted by how many of these properties each recipe uses.

12 recipes

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

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

Extracts pectin from peel and pulp, then gels into a firm, glass-like sheet. Naturally slightly coloured by the fruit.

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

A pellicle of bacterial cellulose grown in sweet tea, then rinsed, flattened and slowly dried into a thin leather.

Fruit pulp dried slowly into a flexible edible or non-edible sheet. With pectin it turns glossy and firm; without, soft and supple.

The leftover pulp from apple juicing pressed and dried into a thick, warm sheet.

Ripe banana peel blitzed, strained, seasoned with glycerine and dried slowly.

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.

A soft wax polish for wood, dried bioplastics and leather. Rubs on warm, buffs to a gentle sheen.

A vegan counterpart to beeswax polish. Lower melting point and milder scent.