NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it'll start with pizza - Polidicks

Just imagine a website that lets people share their recipes and foods, you can try a new food everyday. it'd be cute if you could make any food out of the" ink" of the printer, without needing to have the exact ingredients and dealing with all that, but that's likely fantasy

Wait, what? How does that make any sense? Would you have to have it hooked up to a fridge or something with all the different ingredients?

3D printing pizza kinda seems like cheating. Why not 3D print a food a little less two-dimensional?

[QUOTE=Ericson666;40725860]Wait, what? How does that make any sense? Would you have to have it hooked up to a fridge or something with all the different ingredients?[/QUOTE] [QUOTE]The concept is to use basic "building blocks" of food in replaceable powder cartridges. By combining each block, a wide range of foods should be able to be created by the printer. The cartridges will have a lifespan of 30 years, more than long enough to enable long-distance space travel. After proving his system works on a basic level by printing chocolate, Contractor will start his project within the next few weeks by attempting to print a pizza.[/QUOTE] It just fakes things I guess. Probably has flavors and textures that it combines to make something almost resembling the food you wanted.

[QUOTE=Robbobin;40725931]3D printing pizza kinda seems like cheating. Why not 3D print a food a little less two-dimensional?[/QUOTE] A sandwich printer? Now wait, that is 2D as well...

I think pizza is a bit far out there... start with donuts. Smaller, simpler, makes me happier to own a machine that makes them, and then build from there.

i'm looking forward to drinking a cupful of liquid that's almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;40726098]This could help world hunger SO MUCH once the technology is up-to-snuff. It may have its fair share of bullshit, but I'm honestly happy that I'm growing up in this generation.[/QUOTE] We have the ability to cure world hunger right now. Just because some new technology emerges to make it slightly easier doesn't mean it will get done; in fact, it won't.

[QUOTE=Lolkork;40725831]That would require you to own a stone oven, you can't really make a traditional pizza without one.[/QUOTE] True true. The printing process would probably be used for simply manufacturing the pizzas, since I dunno how you'd be able to make the 3D printer actually cook the pizza. And to that end, if this is intended for long-term space flight, you'd need a proper oven designed for zero-gravity cooking. Then again the printer-oven could be heated as well, so that it could cook the pizza through evenly as it's being printed. Also, in terms of stuffed crust, since the pizza would be printed in layers I imagine it'd be possible to print stuffed crust pizzas. But personally what I wanna know is if it can print deep pan pizzas. In terms of certain types like Hawaiian and Meat Feast, I'd imagine that any meat on a printed pizza probably wouldn't have as much resistance or texture as real meat. Neither would pineapple, unless there's a way to print items with actual texture and varying density, so that the texture of the pizza base and solid ingredients aren't the same. [QUOTE=demoguy08;40726805]We have the ability to cure world hunger right now. Just because some new technology emerges to make it slightly easier doesn't mean it will get done; in fact, it won't.[/QUOTE] I think money's the main issue in that regard, that arbitrary system intended as a medium of trade and exchange that has supplanted haggling and bartering in most places. We create a lot of surplus food here in the West, and some of it goes to waste; frankly disgusting how much goes to waste on a daily basis. Personally I think we need advanced hydroponics and irrigation in under-developed places, so that less arable areas are able to grow their own food. Also, there's the added bonus of the plants locking up CO2 as they grow, since that's kinda how plants work in terms of them producing energy, so all in all a mass agriculture bloom would also help the environment. All that carbon locked up for millions of years in ancient fossil fuels can at last be returned to the world's ecosystems; long ago they were once trees (in case of coal) and plankton/algae (in case of oil), but the forests died and ended up buried beneath the earth as the eons turned, whilst the planktons and algae died and drifted to the bottom to, in turn, be buried by the passage of time. The vaporous "ashes" left behind from their energetic cremations to power our civilisations can once again be reborn as new life. But that's enough about fossil fuel philosophies and the carbon cycle, since it's kinda irrelevant to pizza printing.

no hitchhiker's guide references?

[QUOTE=Robbobin;40725931]3D printing pizza kinda seems like cheating. Why not 3D print a food a little less two-dimensional?[/QUOTE] well printing ramen would be cheating too, they could just print one long noodle, and give up, we all gotta walk before we can run

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYD5AG4RvHY[/media]

I'm amazed nobody has mentioned how happy as fuck these guys are going to be [IMG]http://www.adolescentadulthood.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/ninja-turtles-pictures.jpg[/IMG]

I kinda hope this doesn't become a thing. If it does I foresee myself inside my house alone on way too many a night.

[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;40726098]This could help world hunger SO MUCH once the technology is up-to-snuff. It may have its fair share of bullshit, but I'm honestly happy that I'm growing up in this generation.[/QUOTE] it's still using the same amount of ingredients except that it has to go through a $50,000 for the same amount of food

"Hey guys, want some pizza?" "Sure" "Alright, come back tomorrow when it's ready."

I need to make a restaurant that I can charge people over the internet.

[QUOTE=Blockhead;40731509]I need to make a restaurant that I can charge people over the internet.[/QUOTE] Until you go out of business from piracy.

YOU WOULDN'T DOWNLOAD A PIZZA! Hell fuckin yeah I would. I am SO excited for this. I'm just playing squidward's "future" freak out over and over in my mind.

Finally I can download all the CP I want.

"Computer! Print pizza" *waits 3 hours for one slice of pizza *

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Glad they're starting with some nice healthy vegetables.

I had actually thought of this last year! Damnit I should have copyrighted my idea.. :v:

You guys forgot this: [video=youtube;peqzq3V2WAw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peqzq3V2WAw[/video]

3d printers, the ovens of the future.

"You wouldn't download bread" Fuck you anti-piracy ad, I might just be able to and I would

Guys, how a food printer would work in space without gravity? Spitting lumps on a plate?

[QUOTE=aurum481;40738645]Guys, how a food printer would work in space without gravity? Spitting lumps on a plate?[/QUOTE] they might use spinning centrifuges, but ofc that's assuming NASA gets anything even resembling decent funding at any point in the future

Just waiting for the day I can print Hamburgers