So much crazy stuff with food!
For the video shoot, we used a chocolate candy that doesn’t need to be tempered like real chocolate, because we’re lazy. It doesn’t melt, get fingerprints, etc. WIlton Melts, if I recall. It took hours of fussing to get the cut settings right.
For ‘regular chocolate’, I found that freezing and engraving works well for whole chocolate bars.
Glowforge has a software-controllable focus lens, so theoretically you can defocus and cook thin things. We haven’t tried this yet. We want to.
Seaweed is easy and amazing. Protip: do a california roll (rice on the outside), then roll it in seaweed.
This is a good time for me to restate that, out of an abundance of caution, we must recommend you not use your Glowforge for both edibles and inedibles, but dedicate it to one or the other.
PS: if you look carefully in the video, you can see there’s saran wrap between the seaweed and the rice so it didn’t wilt on set. Unfortunately that means I didn’t get to eat it!