Researchers have been pushing the limits of 3D printing for decades, using the manufacturing technique to churn out consumer goods such as furniture and shoes, human organs and even a rocket. But can the industrial technology be applied to make a fully baked dessert that can be fabricated in your home kitchen?
Kyle von Hasseln, CEO of Sugar Lab and Currant 3D, said in an email,"3D printed food may be disruptive as to legacy food distribution as regional servers were to the early internet."
Creating a slice of cake was the next step in a years-long effort by Blutinger and his colleagues to develop various foods with larger numbers of ingredients. His efforts started with learning how to bake various doughs with lasers and has evolved into developing a machine that can handle 18 ingredients and print and bake food simultaneously.
There's also the potential to make foods to a person's preferences:"You can kind of customize every little slice if you wanted to." "You get these waves hitting your palate at different times," he said."And that's a really cool part of the printing process that you can actually localize flavours in the cheesecake."If the concept of cooking with lasers is concerning, Blutinger added it is no different than heating food in a microwave or broiling a dish in an oven with infrared coils.
"I think the price point is getting into a more reasonable point for a lot of people and for an actual commercial viability standpoint. I think in the next five years or so, you're going to start to see this technology," he said.
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