Ah, it's a jest! We're to play hot potato with our gripper arms. My correspondent and I puzzled over this problem, but unfortunately could not find a route to minimize grabs by building scaffolding, nor anything of the sort. The problem is that the only usable atom of the reagent is in its center, with two wings that both need to be disposed of into the waste chain--with one arm, a Glyph of Triplex-Bonding, and a Glyph of Unbonding, options are sharply limited.

But to not let perfect be the enemy of the good, we simply exercised the fundamentals--we will touch the potato, but if we minimize movements and optimize overall, maybe the burns will not penetrate so deep into the skin. This method of braiding together a waste chain is expedient for this process; most potatoes only need be touched twice during assembly, with additional touches for the difficulty of final assembly. The waste method was counterintuitive to discover, and over-handling of previous versions of the braid was responsible for many potato touches, so this was an unexpectedly impactful discovery. This touch-rate is 16 per molecule of product, when our previous designs required 40 or more.

These waste braids can be applied for other purposes, given that they can twist clockwise or widdershins with every link--we alternate for this design. They disintegrate into tristabilized fire when cut, but can be woven as thread; I will leave the possibilities to your imagination.

- Alchemist Kazyan, in correspondence with Alchemist Jasper