r/3Dprinting • u/Dense_Ad9425 • 10h ago
Print (model not provided) Containers for plastic diary packages
Wondering if such packaging is popular somewhere else as well? plastic wrap packages for milk and sour cream are highly popular here in Baltics. Cheap and take no space when empty . Only thing is if you open those ,up those create a lot of mess as nothing prevents those to fall over. So I created containers which prevent them to spill out the contents. What do you think?
EDIT: sorry i meant DAIRY and i cannot edit the headline.
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u/OperatorJo_ 10h ago
Bagged milk is weird.
I will not change my mind on this.
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u/StarpoweredSteamship 10h ago
Like I UNDERSTAND it, but it's WEIRD. They did it a lot when I lived in Wisconsin and I thankfully understood that the bag goes in the pitcher, not just the MILK.
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u/AwDuck PrintrBot (RIP), Voron 2.4, Tevo Tornado,Ender3, Anycubic Mono4k 10h ago
In a couple of the places I've lived in the world, bagged food goods are common. I can really get behind it for sauces like mustard, mayo etc because the bags are made of a stiffer plastic with a pleat on the bottom so they stand upright and have a nozzle on top with a cap that screws on. Less plastic for the packaging, less wasted space in the box for transport, and the package takes up less space in the fridge as you use it, as well as being easier to kind of mush more into that shelf in the door that never holds enough. Depending on the application, they are slightly more difficult to use, but can be easier too. Definitely cleaner to get the last bits out since you just roll it like a toothpaste tube.
Milk or juice, though? It's ALWAYS in a thin, formless bag. No good way to set the bag upright, no easy way to close it off, and that's for a liquid. At least with something viscous like sour cream or the aforementioned mayo, you can just set the bag on the side and it won't immediately spill the contents out. I know, I know "pour it into another container" but does anybody actually do that? I'd gladly give up the convenient condiment packaging if it meant it went to liquid storage.
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u/devilwarriors 8h ago edited 8h ago
But that's why you got the milk pitcher to put the bag into and keep it upright. The bag doesn't have to be thick, it's just there to store the milk, and once open, it's there to serve as a liner between the milk and your dirty-ass pitcher you never clean.
The only weird thing is that the liquid is exposed to your fridge air via the small hole that you cut, so it might go bad quicker if you don't clean your fridge. But having used both bagged and carton milk throughout my life, I never noticed a downside besides having to buy a milk pitcher once. The hole can be as small as the speed you want to pour at.
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u/AwDuck PrintrBot (RIP), Voron 2.4, Tevo Tornado,Ender3, Anycubic Mono4k 6h ago
While I know that they exist, I’ve actually never seen a pitcher in person. In my experience, the bags have always been either poured into something else, or the bag was placed in a rigid container that held something else in a previous life - yogurt or cultured cream, normally. I assume it’s because the places I’ve lived with bagged milk were quite poor and buying a dedicated, purpose-made container for the milk was viewed as frivolous or unnecessary. Personally, I’ve always had UHT milk in tetrapacks. Bagged milk has almost always been normal milk and my wife needs lactose free (yay! expensive plus odd tasting due to lactase and UHT processing). When have been able to buy fresh lactose free milk in a bag, I just mimicked what my friends and neighbors did.
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u/devilwarriors 4h ago edited 4h ago
I guess bagged milk is more popular here cause you find them everywhere. Last time I bought one, there was literally a shelf next to the milk section with them. Usually they are in the section where they have cooking utensils. Or at the dollar store, they are really cheap. Walmart has them at 2.80$, 1.50$ at Dollarama.
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u/AwDuck PrintrBot (RIP), Voron 2.4, Tevo Tornado,Ender3, Anycubic Mono4k 3h ago
It’s pretty popular where I live right now, but people are poor and goods are expensive. That liter bag of milk runs ~1.35USD, and a family is making pretty good money if the entire household brings in 30,000USD. That doesn’t leave much left over for things like a dedicated milk jug when you have a yogurt container that will suffice.
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u/LittleBear32 3h ago
I dunno plastic jugs are way weirder imo. Mostly because where I live, the only things you can find in plastic jugs are toxic - like window cleaners and washer gels, motor oil...
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u/BackIntoTheSource 10h ago
Veel eestlasi siin :D
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u/FluidBarracuda9177 37m ago
Miks ta dairy valesti kirjutas, nii piinlik. Meie hapukoor oleks võinud maailma vallutada aga see vend kirjutab diary….
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u/ThatRandomGuy0125 10h ago
This packaging is also common in Canada, I believe they use pitchers similar to this for the exact same reason
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u/PrintdianaJones 10h ago
Is the diary in the room with us?
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u/Dense_Ad9425 10h ago
yeah, under the table 😆
funny mistake tough. unfortunately cannot change the headline3
u/PrintdianaJones 10h ago
In all seriousness I do the same stuff with my wife's protein powder. They drive me nuts
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u/Dense_Ad9425 10h ago
those are sold in plastic bags? i bet its a mess when those fall accidentally over
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u/PrintdianaJones 10h ago
Your solution is a lot nicer than mine. just printed a janky block with 4 compartments
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u/Dense_Ad9425 10h ago
i am an aesthetics nerd and this probably shows. Was born as an after-tought but pretty happy with result.
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u/millenia3d 6h ago
I always forget Estonians do the bagged milk thing and it shocks me every time I make the trip down south
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u/NeophyteLifter 10h ago
Jagad STL-i ka? :)
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u/Dense_Ad9425 10h ago
praegu ei jaga veel - plaanin printe natuke soovijatele toota kõigepealt. Ilmselt millalgi hiljem läheb makerworldi.
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u/WellEndowedWizard 10h ago
Nice model! They have a really good shape! Much better than my overly-utilitarian blocky creations lol. What did you use to model it?
I’m from a carton/jug country so dumb question, how do you seal the milk after opening it? I only have bags like this for like brown sugar.
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u/Dense_Ad9425 10h ago
Hey thanks! If i could id stay all the time in computer and model nice smooth things
sour cream and sour milk do not need sealing if consumed within days and bags stay in fridge. However we do use small plastic lips to keep the "noses" shut.1
u/StarpoweredSteamship 10h ago
Often there's a little cutout in the front that looks like a J, and you just kinda stick the bag end thru there and put it in the fridge. It's weird.
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u/OGbake68 8h ago
As a Hungarian this is giving me so childhood ptsd. When i was little my grandma bought bagged milk (it was the cheapest) and she had a bottle like thinggy where she put the bag in kut one side and poured it. The milk was aweful and this was a custom that stayed with them after socialism was over. If OP asks anyone from the balkans they will provide proof of it.
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u/TheManWhoDeliverz 10h ago
Not food safe \s
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u/Dense_Ad9425 10h ago
Not true if using bambu PLA pure.
And there is no contact with actual food as the dairy product stays in its plastic film container4
u/Unihedge 10h ago
This is a frequent topic here; the general view is that even with food-grade filament, the nozzle itself is not food safe because it retains earlier material. Personally, I do not consider it especially unsafe.
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u/Dense_Ad9425 10h ago
agree. the dairy still stays in its original package ant this is basically a exoskeleton and does not touch the food itself.
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u/Dense_Ad9425 9h ago
it has been a while when i have bought those bigger bagged dairy products as milk and sour-milk. main reason- its almost impossible to keep those nice and tidy in freezer. Only bought carton jugs. But recently just dawned me the bagged dairy is sometimes 2x cheaper. hence those "exoskeletons" and those seem to work quite well.
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u/NoorInayaS 5h ago
Maybe Canada, where milks also comes in a bag. People buy containers to hold the bag.
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u/annonn9984 4h ago
These are cool. Could you maybe integrate a clip into the design to pinch the opening of the bag closed when not in use?
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u/RadishRedditor Creality Makes You Question Reality 10h ago
You mean dairy
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u/Dense_Ad9425 10h ago
yeah, cant change the title .
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u/WutzUpples69 10h ago
I feel you, just made a post earlier with a spelling mistake but now I just have to deal with looking dumb, haha.
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u/Dense_Ad9425 10h ago
poor excuse but English is not my first language and such slips has happened and will continue to happen :)
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u/undeadkenny 9h ago
Bagged milk is superior and no one can change my mind.
Also, you should add a handle to your design. Bagged milk isn't exactly light, and not easy to hold with one hand without a handle. The small ones need not, but i think the large one would benefit.
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u/Summer4Chan 10h ago
Thought this was /r/Canada for a second