Food made by a printer

Examiner ^ | 12/24/10 | Troy Pearce

[library user]

Scientists at Cornell are creating a 3D food printer.

Wonder how many millions of our tax dollars went to pay for this?

[american_ranger]

Idiots!

In order to really sell the thing they should have started with alcohol and various alcohol flavorings.
Bourbon, Canadian whiskey, scotch, Tequila, etc...

[CrazyIvan]

I've had prototype parts made of plastic in a similar manner
after drawing them with Solidworks.

[randog]

The scientists believe that this device will save people the hassle of cooking.....While some might find this concept disturbing, Chef Homaro Cantu believes this will enhance the cooking experience.

If cooking is a chore (which it isn't) then why would you want to enhance it? That's like saying, "We want to enhance the laundry experience."

As to the device...it sounds like they just took a 3-D printer and filled the hoppers with foodstuff rather than plastic. Basically an expensive pastry bag.

[WeldonsRight]

Oh, yummy. Now I really can eat my words...

[lysie]

Does the food safety bill allow this?

They say they are protecting us from getting food poisoning from our gardens, will they protect us from contaminated cartridges?

[NoExpectations]

My daughter is a chef in a high-end restaurant. She is coming home today with an 11 lb. prime rib. I’ll ask her opinion...

[Uncle Ike]

Hmmm...

Printer-friendly paper plates??

Adobe comes out with a new variation of “Photoshop” - “Foodoshop”??

[ROCKLOBSTER]

See Startrek:

Food replicator.

[Dahoser]

Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

[Larry Lucido]

Already been done.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I've had prototype parts made of plastic in a similar manner after drawing them with Solidworks."

Lots of plastic ones available today, and some with metals (use lasers to sinter the metal powders as they are deposited).

[CrazyIvan]

I read how Brembo is using this process to make one piece
brake calipers. Very cool.

[RJR_fan]

How many people who read this post will remember Isaac Asimov's hilarious short story In Bad Taste? He imagines a culture based upon, and totally given over to, the sense of taste -- but the food is all artificial, based on vat-grown "prime."

[dangerdoc]

Last night I had a thick slice of rare tenderloin with horseradish, cheesy potatoes, fresh green beans cooked in butter and dill, fresh salad and fresh crusty bread and butter.

Lets see a food printer match that.

[6SJ7]

Dirk Moeller came from a long line of carnivores and proudly ate animal flesh at every meal. Most people didn't do that anymore. And when they did eat meat, they picked out a tube of vatted meat product, made from cultivated tissue that never required the butchering of an animal, or even the participation of any sort of animal outside of the purely mythical. The best selling vetted meat product on the market was something called Kingston's Bison Boar™, some godforsaken agglomeration of bovine and pig genes stretched across a cartilaginous scaffolding and immersed in a nutrient broth until it grew into something that was meatlike without being meaty, paler than veal, lean as a lizard and so animal friendly that even strict vegetarians didn't mind tucking in a Bison Boar Burger™ or two when the mood struck them. Kingston's corporate mascot was a pig with a bison shag and horns, frying up burgers on a hibachi, winking at the customer in third-quarter profile, licking its lips in anticipation of devouring its own fictional flesh. The thing was damned creepy.

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[Moonman62]

The scientists believe that this device will save people the hassle of cooking.

Isn't that why we have frozen dinners and takeout?

[Rebelbase]

[the invisib1e hand]

This will be handy when all the wealth is in elite hands. Pity those who don’t have an Internet connection.