NASA is funding a 3D food printer, and it'll start with pizza

The Verge ^ | 5/21/13 | Aaron Souppouris

[thackney]

The topping for the pizza will be a nondescript "protein layer."

Yeah, I had a spam pizza on a job site in Yemen. I don't intend to repeat the experience.

[molson209]

I think the first 3D printers used Chocolate

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Yes but can it core a apple?

[Dr. Sivana]

The pizza in Rockford, Illinois tastes like it came out of a printer already. I hadn’t realized how technologically advanced the city’s technology is.

[So Cal Rocket]

The topping for the pizza will be a nondescript "protein layer."

Soylent Green?

[mountn man]

[az_gila]

So that was the invention that turned into this...

Star Trek was better at predictions than a lot of the so-called “futurists”...:^)

[Frapster]

This technology will have arrived when it can make bacon.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

Reconstituted powdered nutrients. Yum!

[lavaroise]

Print bacon directly on your tongue, I can see it.

[ransomnote]

Nondescript protein layer....it’s what’s for dinner.

[mountn man]

Never happen.

This is a NASA project.

Creating bacon would interfere with their muslim outreach program.

[JRandomFreeper]

I've served something like in while cooking in the field for 1500 of my closest friends.

/johnny

[Dr. Sivana]

This technology will have arrived when it can make bacon.

I fear we will live only long enough to print Sizzlean, with some Bacos left over in the feeder cylinder.

[Atomic Vomit]

It will be funded by the “small change” from a trillion dollar coin.

Mrs. AV

[zeestephen]

Can it print a bottle of Chianti?

[faithhopecharity]

why not just call Round Table for delivery?

[PGR88]

I think its called an “oven.”

[Billthedrill]

Somewhere out there is an evil NASA ga-nome who’s working on printing out anchovies.