Cornell Fabrication Lab Makes Edible Objects With 3-D Printer
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[quote]Here at PopSci we often write about emerging technologies like 3-D printing, perhaps almost as often as we write about space launches and rocket ships. And every now and then the use of high-tech gadgetry in the kitchen gives us reason to write about things like scallops and cheese. But until Cornell University teamed up with Dave Arnold and New York’s French Culinary Institute to create miniature scallop-and-cheese space shuttles using a specially equipped 3-D printer, we never thought we’d ever write about all three at the same time.
Cornell’s computational synthesis lab has created software tools that allow engineers to create edible objects using complex geometries that even a skilled chef would have a great deal of trouble creating by hand. A souped up 3-D printer allows creative culinary types to create pureed pastes of their ingredients that can then be layered onto one another via special extruding heads, much as conventional rapid prototyping machines print thin layers of plastics, metals, or glass.
So far the team has printed with all kinds of ingredients: cheese, chocolate, hummus, turkey, celery, scallops, etc. Which begs the question: if you could print anything out of, say, any two ingredients, what would you print? Feel free to get creative in the comments below.
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Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/technology/article/2011-03/cornell-culinary-institute-mashup-uses-3-d-printer-produce-edible-objects[/url]
Broccoli with nodules of cheese in it.
But how does it taste?
Now we have replaced the need for both wives AND kitchens!
Well I'll be damned, I wasn't expecting this. Not at this point.
Make me a sandwich.
Bacon dick - now with 74% less trans fat!
So a billion dollars and we have lab grown meat. Now we can print 3D food.
I think we have a winner
[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;28376931]So a billion dollars and we have lab grown meat. Now we can print 3D food.
I think we have a winner[/QUOTE]
i think it requires the ingredients to make the stuff
how much ink does it need?
This may be a stepping stone but its an awesome stepping stone in the right direction.
Finally I can print my bacon strips!
Now this is the coolest thing I've seen all day.
[QUOTE=recrosse;28377174]how much ink does it need?[/QUOTE]
None. It uses food paste.
[QUOTE=BagMinge104;28376627]Now we have replaced the need for both wives AND kitchens![/QUOTE]
"Hi honey, here's your sandwich."
"Sorry, I forgot to tell you it's a pdf"
Insert 12 kilos of perfectly edible jelly.
Receive two jellybeans.
"What is it?"
"It's a rocket, printed from sixty ounces of cheese and scallops."
"Can you eat it?"
"Yes"
"[highlight][b]FUCKING NOBEL PRIZE!!![/b][/highlight]"
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
You wouldn't download a carb.
One step closer to downloading food.
The need for all kinds of different material, the cost and the size of these things show is in a very early state, but its going into the right direction.
I wonder if I can print something from Epic Meal Time...
