The 3D food printer is a machine that will take ingredients from reusable metal cylinders, then in some way printing the ingredients into complex designs that would be impossible to make by hand. There are many different kinds of food printers being tested, but the one I saw the most about has a little dispenser, similar to a frosting tube, which it moves around, layering the food however high is needed until it’s done.
A man experimenting with the food printer printed a flower-like design on a plate. Then, not printing, he put some more ingredients at the base of the design, topping it off with some foam of carrot (whatever that is). He called his creation “Sea Coral,” and indeed, it does look much like a sea coral.
However, the implication I found on another site, which was talking about space food but said something similar could happen down here, was a bit gross. It said that some 3D prints were using alternative ingredients to make a “food-like starting material,” including algae, duckweed, beet leaves, or insects. The idea that they could put those kinds of ingredients into their food prints, without it looking any different and thus, we would probably have no idea, is not a happy one for me. Then again, it’s probably not so much worse than all the weird ingredients they put in processed food now.
I found a site with lots of pictures, and this one was my favorite:
“Sea Coral”
The space one
Pictures
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