Author Topic: Fake food printer (Read 977 times)

Matthew · « **on:** December 27, 2010, 08:05:04 AM »

Via: BBC:

Christmas dinner traditionally centres on the turkey or goose. But if US scientists have their way, everyone may be sitting around a printer.

The team at Cornell University’s Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL) are building a 3D food printer, as part of the bigger Fab@home project, which they hope one day will be as commonplace as the microwave oven or blender.

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.”

The goal is to blow the lid off cooking as we know it and change the future of food production.

People lacking even basic culinary skills could download the recipe files of master chefs or print out nutrition-packed dishes recommended by their doctors.

Matthew · « **Reply #1 on:** December 27, 2010, 08:06:45 AM »

This isn't as crazy as it sounds. Do you realize that our food is already made in a manner very close to this? That's what I call crazy. Taking our crazy industrialized processed food system to its logical conclusion? What's so crazy about that?

You have a large machine, fed with a few ingredient "cartridges" such as High Fructose Corn Syrup, MSG, food coloring, etc.

They basically rearrange a few ingredients -- usually artifically cheap because of government subsidies -- a thousand ways to get what you find in the INNER AISLES of your average grocery store.

I suppose Textured Soy Protein would be the equivalent of the Black Ink cartridge. They use that in *everything* and it can be made to have all sorts of textures and flavors.

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