:D A laser cutter for butter.
Non-chlorine plastics (acrylic works excellently) wood and textiles (leather cuts beautifully but smells awful).
Uniform thickness works best, so plywood and mdf etc are very popular choices for stuff. Leaves a nasty looking burnt edge though, so if presentation is important then acrylic is the way to go.
No PVC then. What happens if you cut that plastic with chlorine in it? Toxic fumes?
Yeah, nasty chlorine gas. Not good for health and corrodes metal, fogs mirrors etc.
No, I find bacon to be salty enough already.
I've used a laser engraver / cutter for quite a few years a work, you need proper extraction of the fumes which can be really nasty and dangerous if you cut plastics or MDF etc, so be careful. Does it have a cutting bed with it?
Also been using them for quite a while, but never hurts to be reminded of just how nasty they can get.
Ive sealed all the case joints with rubber draft excluding stuff, there's an intake fan that cools my electronics (front right of the case) and then an extraction system at the rear left (approximately half the width of the bed, ish). The extraction fan is then on a flexible duct to the outside world.
Also I've got an air assist nozzle positioned in front of the laser head, angled so that it hits the laser spot then the air movement is backwards, towards the extraction fan.
The installed cutting bed is pretty crap (a spring loaded clamp that would hold something postcard sized) but I've got a piece of honeycomb mesh sitting on top of it that works OK. Could do with a thicker piece of mesh, but I plan on taking the bed out and replacing with an adjustable height one at some point.