has a vision of a 3D printer in every kitchen. “As time passes, 3D food printing we will go from novelty…to utility…to indispensability,” he is quoted as saying.
Work on the 3D food printer has also been taking place at Cornell Creative Machines Lab and MIT. Here’s how the CCML food printer works:
“The CCML food printers require edible inks and electronic blueprints called FabApps. This machine prints food using multiple cartridges, going line by line until the desired shape is extruded. ‘The electronic blueprint specifies exactly which materials go where–it is essentially a blueprint of the food item,’ says Hod Lipson, the head of the lab. It’s a way to create new flavors and forms of food by varying its chemical properties. ‘It’s a huge ‘design space,’ and the combination of tastes and textures, geometries and colors that can be achieved is enormous,’ says Lipson.”
