Extruder From Amazing Wedding Cakes Show
Decorating By momma28 Updated 17 Sep 2009 , 1:07am by loulou2
I haven't seen the TV show you're referring to but it sounds like this:
http://www.globalsugarart.com/search.php?search=makin+extruder
Emma
The Makins is awesome. I doubt it is food safe, but none of us really care. It is intended for use with clay or Sculpey type products. What makes it better than the plunger types most people start out with is that is is twist operated, putting greater force with less effort. Rather than pushing it on that little fat pad between your thumb and forefinger....ouch!
I bought mine at Michaels. It was in the clay isle along with the accessories and the pasta/clay rollers. Mine is a Makins as well. Although I will tell you I don't like it. Mine is metal and the inserts get stuck and bend when you try to take them out.
Oh ok, I care if it is food safe, I make things for my grand kids and other family....of course there are some relatives i could use it for I suppose. hee just kidding...I do care
Ahhhh that is why mine sucks....it is a plunger...and yet it came from Michaels and yes it hurts the heck out of my fingers and yes I hate it....but it does come in handy when I need certain things done (like tassles, hair etc).
I agree step0nmi. It's brand new and looks to be made from (plastic and metal) so stick it all in the dishwasher and it's food suitable if you ask me!
It can be due to the materials it is made from. Such as metals containing high levels of lead. Or PVC's that are toxic. I don't worry about it simply because I don't use it on things that are to be eaten. Most people don't sit and eat a gumpaste figurine.
why would a tool not be food safe unless you had otherwise used it with another product? what I'm trying to say is...it's a brand new clean tool...you could use it for anything!
Right, but so are brand new washed rubber stamps for impressing into fondant. However, come to find out, there was extensive research done showing how it leeches chemicals into food. (really? just from pressing into fondant for 2 seconds?? It didn't make me throw mine out 
) So if you wanted to be nit picky, you could say the extruder shaved microscopic bits of metal everytime you screwed and unscrewed it...or the paint flecks off.....allllll kinds of possibly hysterical scenarios. 
It can be due to the materials it is made from. Such as metals containing high levels of lead. Or PVC's that are toxic. I don't worry about it simply because I don't use it on things that are to be eaten. Most people don't sit and eat a gumpaste figurine.
Yeah-that.
why would a tool not be food safe unless you had otherwise used it with another product? what I'm trying to say is...it's a brand new clean tool...you could use it for anything!
Right, but so are brand new washed rubber stamps for impressing into fondant. However, come to find out, there was extensive research done showing how it leeches chemicals into food. (really? just from pressing into fondant for 2 seconds?? It didn't make me throw mine out
) So if you wanted to be nit picky, you could say the extruder shaved microscopic bits of metal everytime you screwed and unscrewed it...or the paint flecks off.....allllll kinds of possibly hysterical scenarios.
wow 
news to me!
if we don't tell them...would they care?
I think it came to head when Martha Stewart was using them on a show one time. Someone who was either planning on researching what the rubber leaches out, OR already did it, contacted her peeps and I don't know what happened....it may have not even been MS, but it was some show. Anyways, there is a company now that sells food safe rubber stamps.
http://www.sweetstampen.com/
I bet not as much metal from extruder than the metal that flaked off my kitchenade whip blade 
....have you seen the new ones by the way? Rubber on the edge all the way to the bottom of mixer bowl,,,it really cleans bottom of bowl and incorporates everything...very nice....and blade is not made od painted metal by the looks of it
I just got mine at Hobby Lobby. Haven't used it yet, but I will be in the next couple of days. It's on the isle with the clay. I hope works as well as everyone is saying, I'm making a cake for my hubby and I need some "ropes" and I sooooo, don't want to roll them by hand. Combine the 40% coupon and you can get it for a really good price.
I have been using a clay gun for some time now. It has never been used on anything but fondant and was cleaned well before first and after each subsequent use. Im not worried. Have you seen some of the "not in the food gadget section" tools that some of the cake artist on tv use? Pvc piping, motors, wires, a cool button to imprint fondant...the list goes on.
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