Posted on 06/19/2015 5:38:26 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
A few weeks ago, Londoners were able to eat at the world’s first 3D printed, pop-up restaurant. In early June, a German-based company introduced the word’s first plug-and-play food printer, which may be ready for shipping as early as 2016. With the lowering cost to produce this technology, making it increasingly accessible, 3D printing could fundamentally change our relationship with food.
Simply put, the process uses ingredients to generate three-dimensional meals by placing layers of compounded food on top of each other. Since 2012, the food industry has used this technology to produce ubiquitous products like candy, chocolate, pizza, noodles and even crackers. Despite its relative novelty, many companies are recognizing 3D food printing’s potential to revolutionize global food systems.
In particular, 3D printing could enable companies to manage resources more responsibly, and reduce waste across the food continuum, whether you are a food processor, distributor or a consumer with leftovers. Indeed, many well-known agribusiness corporations have already dedicated a great deal of time and research on 3D systems. There is a potential benefit to consumer health as well. For example, PepsiCo recently announced that it is using 3D printing technology to develop a healthier potato chip.
Beyond manufacturing, 3D printing could also boost culinary creativity by allowing renowned chefs to create shapes and forms previously thought impossible. Some have also argued that it can also give the food service industry the ability to customize products based on individual nutritional needs. Given our demographic challenges over the next few decades, this can become a key benefit. For example, many nursing homes in Germany already produce a 3D-printed food product called smoothfoods for residents who have difficulty eating. Regular smoothies have been on the menu, but haven’t proved popular. Residents eating smoothfoods can receive all the nutrients they require....
(Excerpt) Read more at montrealgazette.com ...
No thanks. I’ll pass on 3D-printed confit du canard.
>>Insect flour?<<
It is quite nutritious, is abundant and is, when processed, tasteless.
It could end world hunger
So could soylent green.
My problem with it is that us peons will be expected to eat it while the elite still consume steak, lobster, sea bass and regular pasta.
>>My problem with it is that us peons will be expected to eat it while the elite still consume steak, lobster, sea bass and regular pasta.<<
That is MY plan, anyway.
>>So could soylent green.<<
Soylent yellow always got short shrift.
This is liberal egghead-speak for the common man eating dirt while the elites eat real food. It is Malthusian nonsense!
But if government gets ahold of it, beware. It is their wet dream of centralized control over our food.
How much for the software for a deep dish pizza?
Yeah, it will probably change my world—in that I’ll be making even more meals from scratch.
Pizza pronto! Vending machine that rustles up a fresh pie in just THREE minutes...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3189482/posts
Ah did not have relations with that Turkey.
And people cringe at the thought of what hot dogs are made of.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBv-qIAtW5A
MMmmm...Corn
Don’t eat the soylent brown man.
I seem to remember a sci fi story from the 70s, Heinlien, i think. Story line was a capability to create needed body parts but the problem was the parts would dissolve if more than a mile or so from the thing that made them. Anyway, part of the story was that many people benefited from artificial hearts/limbs/etc.
Now to get back on topic, the whole thing was paid for by a restaurant which featured all sorts of delicacies created by the same thing that created the artificial body parts. You could eat all you wanted but it all disappeared once you left a certain radius.
Anyway, reminds me of this story.
Soylènt Green?
A CLASSIC! (lol!)
My garden gets bigger every year. Articles like this assure that it will keep growing as long as I can do it.
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