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Just pop the raw food "inks" in the top, load the recipe - or 'FabApp' - and the machine would do the rest. "FabApps would allow you to tweak your foods taste, texture and other properties," says Dr Jeffrey Ian Lipton, who leads the project. "Maybe you really love biscuits, but want them extra flaky. You would change the slider and the recipe and the instructions would adjust accordingly." Currently, the food printer's "inks" are limited to "anything that can be extruded from a syringe" (luckily that includes the four major food groups: Liquid chocolate, liquid cookie dough, liquid cheese, and liquid cake batter). But the team is working on turning other ingredients into syringe-extrudable materials—and they've had some successes, like cookies, and chocolate, and, oh my God, "designer domes made of turkey meat." And there's nothing weird about that at all! No, nothing completely and utterly horrifying about the fact that the endpoint of technological modernity is our food being squeezed out of a syringe in prearranged patterns. If anything, this will improve The Food Experience, according to chef Homaro Cantu of Chicago's Moto, who has, and you may want to get a vomit bag here, "printed sushi using an ink jet printer": Long-term, the team believes that people will take to the technology by creating their own 3D printable food recipe social networks with everyone improving on each other's creations. "3D printing will do for food what e-mail and instant messaging did for communication," says Mr Cantu.
It reminds me of the beginning of the food replicator tech from Star Trek. It sounds like it could be a great idea especially for countries that have major food shortages.
Why wouldn't we? its yet another food source and considering that there's a lot of people in the world going hungry. Heck, I would try it....as long as it could make crispy bacon. Think of what this tech will be like in 20 years....probably very much like the Star Trek replicators. Maybe I just haven't had enough coffee yet this morning but what would be the disadvantages of this tech? Edit to add: As long as the nutritional values of the food remain or made even healthier its a step in the right direction. I think it would also be a great benefit for long space trips (saves on space and weight) or even colonization of the moon or Mars.
The BIG question is whether you can "print" your own beer! Why spend an entire afternoon brewing when you can just print? Me likey!
This would be a great tech, but as another poster said, if it doesn't have the nutritional value, it's worthless. The tech is there, but how we use it, like all things, is the deciding factor in whether or not the tech is good. Example is atomic processes. either we make weapons or energy out of it.. energy good, weapons, not so much. If monsanto got their hands on this, it'll be bad. If big pharma got a hold of this, it'd be even worse. If we fortified the food ink in good ways, with nutrients, and vitamins and minerals, it would be great. "With great power comes great responsibility!"
This is the stupidest idea i have ever seen. It isn't anything special...it is taking food in an envelope (ultra processed food....yeah, that will help cancer and obesity rates) and putting it in an extruded design. Yuck. I have a hard enough time choking down what passes as food in most places now a days. i am an avid cook, and really do make some 5 star meals in my kitchen. The thought of this is as revolting as you can get. Might as well serve up freshly squeezed dookie.
Originally posted by WeBrooklyn
reply to post by bigfatfurrytexan
This is the stupidest idea i have ever seen. It isn't anything special...it is taking food in an envelope (ultra processed food....yeah, that will help cancer and obesity rates) and putting it in an extruded design. Yuck. I have a hard enough time choking down what passes as food in most places now a days. i am an avid cook, and really do make some 5 star meals in my kitchen. The thought of this is as revolting as you can get. Might as well serve up freshly squeezed dookie.
I agree with your post and thats another thing. Will it be safe going through the process? I mean this is so out of the norm, print your food from your computer while paying bills online and posting on Facebook. I dont want it to be where this is the only choice we are gonna have in a few short years.