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

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I can't even understand how this would work. But free food? Fuck yeah.

[QUOTE=aurum481;40738645]Guys, how a food printer would work in space without gravity? Spitting lumps on a plate?[/QUOTE] Because the stuff it's spitting out doesn't move very far at all and it's sticky.

[QUOTE=S31-Syntax;40726501]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.[/QUOTE] [i]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.[/i] As the article says, they already printed chocolate. Unless I totally misunderstood something. [QUOTE=Richardroth;40740714]I can't even understand how this would work. But free food? Fuck yeah.[/QUOTE] [i]The pizza printer will first print a layer of dough, which will be cooked while being printed, before mixing tomato powder with water and oil to print a tomato sauce. The topping for the pizza will be a nondescript "protein layer." It's early days for the project, but if it's successful it would be a real milestone on the way towards a Star Trek-style Replicator.[/i] The food is not free. Like your normal printer requires ink cartridges, this requires powder cartridges which it mixes with water and oil.

So we can print firearms and pizza from our computers now? All we need is a way to print mountian dew and gas masks and FPers will never have to leave home again :v:

3D printing for guns, pizza, gasmasks and soda; the future of post-apocalyptic survival! But god help you if you mix up the substance containers, since gasmasks made of pizza are not ideal for brief jaunts on the surface, nor are guns that shoot soda, unless the mutants are easily placated by Kool Aid. Keep this in mind if your area has been overrun by Wild Pitchers. (oh yeah)

[QUOTE=ironman17;40741271]3D printing for guns, pizza, gasmasks and soda; the future of post-apocalyptic survival! But god help you if you mix up the substance containers, since gasmasks made of pizza are not ideal for brief jaunts on the surface, nor are guns that shoot soda, unless the mutants are easily placated by Kool Aid. Keep this in mind if your area has been overrun by Wild Pitchers. (oh yeah)[/QUOTE] What about Soda-flavored Pizza? Or pizza-flavored soda?

Those things are ok, as is a gasmask that shoots bullets or a gun that shoots pizza; the former gives you extra firepower whilst the latter can placate hungry predators and gangs of mutant turtles who wield old-styled Japanese weaponry. Follow these steps of 3D printing and you too can survive in the Tongue-In-Cheek Wasteland!

The only drawback is that the pizza probably won't taste very good

I'm imagining custom food in the future. Pick the flavors, textures, appearance, nutrients, etc, and then it gets printed. We are entering a brave new world in the culinary arts.

[QUOTE=Baboo00;40746892]I'm imagining custom food in the future. Pick the flavors, textures, appearance, nutrients, etc, and then it gets printed. We are entering a brave new world in the culinary arts.[/QUOTE] I guarantee you someone said/thought of something just like that in the 70s :v: [SUP][SUP][SUP][SUP]But to be fair, they also thought the microwave would eliminate all other methods of cooking food back then.[/SUP][/SUP][/SUP][/SUP]

[QUOTE=Tovip;40733023]Until you go out of business from piracy.[/QUOTE] True story.

[QUOTE=McNab;40746987]I guarantee you someone said/thought of something just like that in the 70s :v: [SUP][SUP][SUP][SUP]But to be fair, they also thought the microwave would eliminate all other methods of cooking food back then.[/SUP][/SUP][/SUP][/SUP][/QUOTE] Look, apart from sci-fi stuff and exaggerated space-age things, on the conventional level we have technology far beyond the imaginations of people in the seventies. We are living in the future. We just don't realise that because we don't have commercial jetpacks and flying cars and that's really what everyone wants.

Have many GB's are in 1 pizza? Also, could you send people pizzas then?

People are forgetting you still have to buy the ingredients. It's not like you can just print out a pizza whenever you want for free. It'll probably take a decade before 3D printer ingredients are even the same price as real food ingredients. Solve world hunger? i don't think so.

[QUOTE=Chessnut;40797110]Have many GB's are in 1 pizza? Also, could you send people pizzas then?[/QUOTE] Large pizzas in my area are around $14.. so that equates to about 10.83 euro

[QUOTE=VTG;40730725]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[/QUOTE] The Rep Rap Mendel model costs about $500-$600 to make from a kit. I don't imagine a food version of it could bump up the costs that much. The point of this (from NASA's perspective) is to provide Astronauts more conventional food in a much higher volume (as it would presumably be kept in some sort of powder or paste form) without having any sort of cooking device on board.