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3D Printers In The Kitchen

by RichardM » Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:20 pm

I just came across this on SlashDotOrg:

an article from Fortune about the tiny industry springing up around food-related 3D printing. While such devices are still too expensive and too special-purpose for home kitchens, professionals in restaurants and large cafeterias are figuring out ways they can automate certain time-intensive tasks. For example, pasta: "If the user is making a recipe for ravioli, for instance, the [device] prints the bottom layer of dough, the filling and the top dough layer in subsequent steps. It reduces a lengthy recipe to two minutes construction time and ensures that no one has to clean a countertop caked with leftover dough and flour." The companies developing these 3D printers hope they'll be this generation's version of the microwave, gradually finding a use in almost every kitchen.
http://fortune.com/2015/02/26/3d-food-printing/

I am all for it!! Maybe Suzib will let me get a 3D Printer if it will make food...

Cool ideas of what you can do. At the end of the article is a short video.

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Re: 3D Printers In The Kitchen

by Leah S » Thu Feb 26, 2015 11:53 pm

I know I've stumbled across a few mentions in my pastry sources of experimentation with 3d chocolate printing. An obvious choice for a pastry chef to design some cool stuff.
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Re: 3D Printers In The Kitchen

by Madeline Peters » Fri Feb 27, 2015 8:29 am

I get what they are trying to do, via The Jetson's, but this concept is a long way off. I can promise you that you will have to compromise on texture, and a variety of other things, to get the food through that spigot. I can see it for decorative dessert flourishes but not for other things. Then again, I am showing my age.
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Re: 3D Printers In The Kitchen

by Jay M. » Sun May 15, 2016 12:09 pm

According to The New Yorker magazine, the Culinary Institute of America has "...engaged their newest assistant—a prototype ChefJet Pro, one of the first powder-based 3-D printers for food."

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"At the Culinary Institute of America, food scientists use 3-D printing for edible creations, including a delicate French-vanilla cage that turns into a glaze when drizzled with espresso."

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Any local places with designs on getting one of these??
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Re: 3D Printers In The Kitchen

by Carla G » Sun May 15, 2016 4:18 pm

Hmmmm...will 3D printing in food/chocolate/pasta be to its industry what CGI is to animation?
Not really sure what to make of it.
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