"And it would have the added benefit of cutting out some of the waste of current food production methods, says Homaro Cantu, chef and owner of the Moto Restaurant in Chicago, Illinois, who has printed sushi using an ink jet printer.
"Imagine being able to essentially 'grow', 'cook' or prepare foods without the negative industrial impact - everything from fertilizers to saute pans and even packaging," he says.
"The production chain requirements for food would nearly be eliminated."
Local food, could really mean local.
"You can imagine a 3D printer making homemade apple pie without the need for farming the apples, fertilizing, transporting, refrigerating, packaging, fabricating, cooking, serving and the need for all of the materials in these processes like cars, trucks, pans, coolers, etc," he adds."
The Fab@Home Project Team is recruiting students from any and all majors in Cornell Univeristy who want to help shape the future of personal manufacturing. Look under "Joining the Team" and "Upcoming Events" for more information" That little gem has been up for a year- and updated once - without anyone at Cornell noticing that "recruit" is not spelled with 2 T's. Details, details. :-) seems to paint them; but they do surely seem to be somewhat communications challenged- if their chef-partners are thinking what the quotes indicate.. |
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Ha! Total brain freeze mind boggle whatever, is right! I'm at a loss for words.
So will I still have to go to a "grocery" store and buy new printer cartridges for this thing, or will the city be building an infrastructure to pipe the HFCS directly into my house?
Okay, that's just gross. And weird. Who wants to eat layers of pureed food?!
Ugh. . .
I sent the BBC article to my husband, and he replied with this from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
"Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser The Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser is a product of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation The Guide has this to say on the Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser:When the 'Drink' button is pressed it makes an instant but highly detailed examination of the subject's taste buds, a spectroscopic analysis of the subject's metabolism, and then sends tiny experimental signals down the neural pathways to the taste centres of the subject's brain to see what is likely to be well received. However, no-one knows quite why it does this because it then invariably delivers a cupful of liquid that is almost, but not quite, entirely unlike tea." .
I didn't see anything about where they expect raw materials to come from. Even on Star Trek, the replicator used specially stored raw material or recycled "food waste".
And I already have the amazing ability to take specially stored raw material and recycled "food waste" (at my house, we call that "leftovers") and prepare food.
:)
Next they'll invent little capsules that you just insert in the ground, add water, and food grows :-).
I know cooking is not really my all time favourite despite doing it three times a day forever but........HUH!!!
Probably tastes like cardboard :)
viv in nz
I'm glad I'll be off the planet when this new wave enters the mainstream! Hee hee... You have definitely boggled my mind... come visit when you can don't forget to check my other blog, Rockin' Chair Reflections, too.
You just come on over to my house and I'll cook you a nice supper.
My understanding is that the printer just spits out paper that tastes like whatever . . . not the actual food itself. Could be wrong.
I think it's hilarious. Flavoured chewable paper. Wonder if we can get it through airport security??? Wonder if the fact that I typed airport security in this comment will send up red flags somewhere?
Judging by the recipe included with the article, it looks like all they’ve done is make some cookie dough (the old fashioned way even, raw ingredients had to be mixed up in a bowl and all). Then the dough has been put in some syringes and squirted out in a three dimensional shape…….as opposed to rolling it and using a cookie cutter. The gee whiz factor seems to be that a computer controlled the squirting – when any half way competent 6 year old could splat a spoonful of batter on a baking sheet. Now if they’d taken a slurry of amino acids and popped out a block of something that tasted vaguely like chicken, I might be impressed
Given the myriad array of kitchen appliances cluttering kitchen counters now, I can’t see this competing, if they ever even get it into commercial production. I’m betting that for hygiene purposes anything using syringes would be a pain in the butt to clean and they’d probably deal with that by using disposable parts – might be just like the commercial model for inkjet printers now, where the printers are cheap and they make all the money on the cartridges.
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