How 3D Printed Food Can Change the Way We Look at Eating

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3D printing is one of the most flexible manufacturing methods we have on the market. Compared to traditional production means like CNC and injection molding, 3D printing is relatively affordable, and flexible, which gives users a level of freedom that was impossible to have in the past decades. Thermoplastics are the most popular material used in 3D printing, but it looks like they might have competition.
The amount of freedom 3D printing grants its users garnered the interest of some researchers and inspired them to use these devices for food production. By mimicking FDM 3D printer’s extrusion system and software that is similar to slicers used in 3D printing, making multi-material meals is now a possibility.
The technology is still in its infancy, but it’s hard to deny its potential. Jonathan Blutinger of Columbian University thinks the software element can change how we look at food and inform us about our eating habits and taste preferences. Creating an ecosystem based on eating is the current goal and can create a new concept like smart eating. But 3D printed food is not here to replace traditional cooking but to be an alternative method of eating that can have its own special uses in the future.
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@00Julian00 Жыл бұрын

This is just a mechanized piping bag

@Tank245 Жыл бұрын

"shut up and eat your bug paste and 3d printed goop. this is the future"

@hotarukaleidos 11 ай бұрын

As a way to make ingredients is pretty cool and to find new creative ways to assemble a plate for example. But never a whole meal, cooking is valuable in cultural identity

@tonicalloway7227 Жыл бұрын

Some things like cooking is a sacred right and a privilege..

@InterdimensionalCabal Жыл бұрын

Nothing is Sacred, everything is Free. (Half off on sundays)

@josea.r.avelino181 Жыл бұрын

@@InterdimensionalCabal is freedom sacred?

@ernestpworrell4439 5 ай бұрын

What if they could print raw ingredients? You could still cook them.

@davidlevesque5292 2 ай бұрын

“Right and a privilege” doesn’t make sense

@mistyjudge-cardwell9147 4 ай бұрын

This is almost like a George Jetson's on the Jetson's meet Just and his boy Elroy lol I loved the Jetson's!!

@ursulaglissmann6905 Жыл бұрын

I never liked 2D food.

@dougrobinson2024 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, me neither! I would never eat it!

@DonZeedle Жыл бұрын

*Soylent green* intensifies

@Gab_TwoToes 10 ай бұрын

i need two that machines 👉👈😅

@noodles8439 2 ай бұрын

Why? what do you use it for?

@nioxic77 Жыл бұрын

I think i'll pass. only 3D printable "food" i've seen that sounded interesting.. was a chocolate 3D printer.

@sleepy_yuu8152 3 ай бұрын

An interesting concept, albeit with a very uncanny feeling to it. Personally, I'd be curious enough to try it out at least (assuming I ever get the chance). However, if it can't nail taste, texture, and cost compared to the real thing, then I think it'll be long ways off before anyone actually gives this idea a shot outside of niche/expensive area's like airports where they'll be treated more as a spectacle than an actual eatery. And that's not to mention the further processing of the already unhealthy, shitty foods with exaggerated marketing, borderline false advertisings and half-truths. Though, IF the role of 3D Food Printers was to be so critical to our society lets say ~50 years from now to the point of being as omnipresent as microwaves or refrigerators, then I believe it'd be best suited for small roles in the creation of foods like cookies, or decorations of foods like with birthday cakes. It would help to bring a new twist to traditional cooking, but not outright replace it. And I think that would be the best way to balance technology like this. Of course, Food companies would probably implement this shit to replace workers outright, but it's not hard to imagine that small businesses will still provide that 'human' element that makes food much more enjoyable. I mean lets be fair, buying food in the middle of the night from a 50 y.o. greasy dude when you're all alone is creepy, but hearing the mechanical whirring of a machine serving you food with no one in sight is just downright dystopian.

@JohnWI13 2 ай бұрын

Just the food that USA wastes is enough to feed Africa. We don't need this. We already have enough resources, but the powerful 1 percent of the world who have 50 percent of all riches don't want that. Fun fact: we are in the age with the most inequality, never ever has the difference between the poorest and richest been bigger. We dont need food printers. We need to change our system.

@hyperajorge Жыл бұрын

Awesome!!

@liliu5250 Жыл бұрын

I think it’s good for places in poverty, but I think that foods made with love have more meaning in them.

@josea.r.avelino181 Жыл бұрын

food is not processed enough, let's find ways to make it even more artificial and processed. the vegans will love it.

@NaitsirhcCheck Жыл бұрын

Classic vegan L

@hyperdomina7296 8 ай бұрын

Hahahaha! Imagine thinking I am going to eat this garbage!!

@Rezin_8 Жыл бұрын

Pollen has alot of protein 🥸🙌 crickets too....invest in protein harvesting

@hotarukaleidos 11 ай бұрын

Yup, but the ick factor forces us to process the insects in order for people to eat it without seeing the bug. So, 3D printing is likely a must if we want to create meat analogs for example. But personally, I really love the crunchiness of the whole insect and the traditional cooking methods >.