The possibilities of a 3D printer are almost endless. With its help, prostheses, weapons, vehicles and other very useful and technological objects are created. According to most films, our future is both terrible and wonderful. What will we see? What do we do? What are we going to eat?
Since microwave radiation is a radiation to many of us, we are constantly inventing new ways of cooking.
Now that the world has learned about 3D printing, it is natural that this technology will be used for cooking and make the process easier, or at least more fancy. According to Star Trek, 3D printing will be the only way to cook in 2,000 years.
Recently, we could not imagine the existence of luminous sneakers with auto-lacing, as from "Back to the Future", but today we have the opportunity to taste food from the printer. Yesterday we learned to print on disks and photocopied our body parts, and now we are ready to eat a high-tech kitchen.
Modern technologies have made human life much more pleasant, comfortable and easier. Now you can devote more time to your family, pleasant pastime and just a hobby. You can print any dish, the main thing is to calculate the proportions and add the necessary ingredients. In fact, this is the same printer in which many printed diplomas, only instead of ink it uses food ingredients.
And restaurants that only cook on 3D printers already exist! Food Ink opens in London. The owners are confident that the technology helps to save food and not produce unnecessary meals. The menu includes "Flying Caviar", "Flowers of Caesar's Life", "Mysterious Shrimps" for $ 330.
3D printing food is one of the most coveted uses of 3D printers.
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In early 2012, Essential Dynamics announced the world's first food grade 3D printer, the Imagine Machine. The printer went on sale in 2012 at a price of $ 3000. The second generation of food 3D printers is now available on the manufacturer's website at a price of $ 3795.
A unique novelty - the Foodini device is a real breakthrough in the market of electronics and home appliances. The 3D printer does not print text or objects, but real food.
There are no analogues of such a device in the world yet, so its price is very high. The printer is equipped with Android system and is connected to WI-FI. The display size is 7 inches. The device allows you to download various recipes from the Internet and view them.
A printer that prints food costs about a thousand US dollars. The smart machine is capable of printing pizza, pastry and bakery products. It is also possible to print complex dishes: ravioli with various fillings, for example.
How does the machine work? All ingredients necessary for cooking are placed in special containers that will be used in the food printing process. You won't need cartridges as such. Foodini prints various dishes, but you also have to participate in the printing process. Now the developers of the model are raising funds for the full production of such machines. It takes about $ 100,000 to get started, and almost half of this amount has already been raised.
What is the main difference between Foodini and Imagine Machine
The first is essentially a household appliance for cooking food using three-dimensional technologies, and the second uses food products in the design of the print material. There are also a number of differences in the set of systems, software and user interface.
Potential buyers of such a device are always busy people, catering companies, restaurants and pastry cafes. The developers are confident that their products will be in demand: now the average person will spend less personal time on preparing complex dishes.
Moreover, cleaning the kitchen after cooking will take a minimum of time. The development of unique recipes is carried out by chefs who have won several top chef's awards.
The main idea that essentially inspired the creators of the Foodini food printer is a healthy lifestyle and adherence to the principles of good nutrition.
Homemade food, which is made from natural products, has a much better health effect than the daily reusable intake of fast food and semi-finished products of questionable quality. The task of such a printer is to facilitate the process of cooking such dishes as dumplings, pizza, tin cookies and the like. The printer will press the dough onto the moving platform.
The printing technology on which Foodini works is FDM, that is, materials are applied in layers. The liquid material is placed in five capsules, each of which can contain a different material, and it can be squeezed out with different intensity and temperature. The mass for printing can be prepared using a mixer or blender.
After printing, the dish lends itself to heat treatment: the pizza will only have to be placed in the oven, sprinkled with grated cheese, or dumplings, which will only need to be thrown into water and cooked. During the printing process, the touch screen will help you understand, which will demonstrate all the capabilities of the printer in full, as well as provide recipes for dishes that you can cook using a unique machine.
Chocolate Printer
Food is printed in layers - baked or cooled. Modern food printing allows you to work in the following directions: printing with sugar syrup, printing with chocolate, printing pancakes or ice cream, printing cheese and pasta. It's worth noting that you can print chocolates, but you'll have to melt the chocolate yourself.
What are the models of food printers
Already, at the initial stage of the production of printers, several basic models can be distinguished.
Digital Chocolatier: As the name suggests, melted chocolate will be the main ingredient in the capsules. It looks like a carousel platform with containers. The platform cools the layers of chocolate and forms a three-dimensional image or candy.
Chocolate layering is complicated by the fact that liquid hot chocolate hardens slowly, and the figurine must go through several stages of coating with melted chocolate mass. Such a car costs about 3,000 British pounds. The miracle of technology is called Chock Edge Creator V1.
Cornucopia: prints multi-ingredient dishes. The platform can both cool and heat food - that is, there is no need for additional preparation of printed food. The same goes for the tubes through which the mass flows.
Digital Fabricator: You put nutrients into the extruder and the mixer shapes them according to the recipe.
Cornell: any liquid or semi-liquid substance can be used. The basis is a culinary syringe.
ChefJet. Creates sweets by mixing powdered natural food colors, alcohol and water. Printers of this type will be excellent assistants for professional bakers, confectioners and those who often work with shapes and inscriptions made of various types of chocolate. To make it easier to work with a complex apparatus, the creators have built The Digital Cookbook there. Such a machine will be able to print chocolate sweets with the taste and smell of vanilla, mint, apple or cherry. The starting price of such a printer is about 5 thousand dollars.
The improved ChefJet Pro creates colored sweets with a combined flavor. The price of the device is 10 thousand dollars. The apps work on both Android and iOS systems. The user selects a recipe on the touch panel, and the printer will tell you which crushed ingredients and which capsule to load. Food printer specifications: Print area: 25.0 cm W x 16.5 cm D x 12.0 cm W. Weight: just over 10 kilograms. Touch panel: 7 inches running OC Android. Internet connection support: Wi-Fi module. Swivel glass platform: diameter 26 cm. Capsules: 5 capsules with different filling can be in the printer at the same time. The printer uses only one capsule at a time. The capsules are replaced automatically. The material from which the capsule is made is at the choice of the consumer. It can be steel or safe and high temperature resistant plastic. The capsule capacity is a little over one hundred milligrams. The total capacity of 5 capsules is 615 ml.
The British have developed such a device that prints raspberries for breakfast for children. the product is formed faster and easier.
Printed raspberries look a bit like red caviar. The healthy breakfast really tastes like raspberry marmalade and smells exactly like this berry. With the help of natural food colors, you can change the color and taste of the finished product. The creators admit that in the process of testing the device, they once received a square blue berry that had the taste and smell of a banana.
The goal of the developers is to expand the boundaries of human touch. The printer is like a replicator machine that appears repeatedly in one of the popular TV series. Also, a team of scientists involved in the development of devices for cooking healthy food are fighting the problem of the onset of cancer and diabetes.
As part of the project, a team of scientists is working on an analysis of the diet of the average citizen, and is looking for ways to make food and the cooking process as useful and simple as possible. Scientists are confident that each of us individually lacks nutrients and trace elements. A “nutrition dossier” will be developed for each person.
The prospect is very encouraging - the company plans to create a scanner that will analyze the general condition of the body and suggest which foods are best to include in the diet. Microwave ovens familiar to all of us are gradually, right before our eyes, becoming a thing of the past.
Barilla, which produces the highest quality Italian pasta, recently announced that it plans to equip its chain of restaurants with a 3D printer over the next few years.
What is the essence of the innovation? A guest, a visitor to the establishment, places an order, and the food is prepared literally within a couple of minutes.
The project will be prepared in cooperation with TNO Eindhoven. Kjeld Van Bommel, project curator for TNO, confirmed that they have been working with Barilla for two years on this idea.
Several printers have already begun work in catering establishments, now work is underway to improve the taste of the paste produced and the technical characteristics of the device.
Barilla is one of the world's leading pasta producers. By using 3D printing technologies in their production process, they have become even more popular and are absolutely confident that 3D printing will soon become a mainstream mass phenomenon.
The main thing in such technological processes is the high speed of cooking. The undoubted advantage of such food printing is that the paste can be given absolutely any shape - the widest field for creativity opens up Van Bommel, one of the direct project managers, says: “Modern technologies have significantly expanded the possibilities of design art and embody the most daring individual wishes of the customer. So, a person can please a loved one by ordering pasta in the form of a bouquet of roses in a restaurant.
At the moment, such models as "Rosa Pasta", the author of which is the French designer Lori Tupin, have gained particular popularity. Pasta is made in the form of a flower, which opens during the cooking process. Danilo Spiga and Louis Fraguardo have developed the Vortipa concept, which resembles a tartlet. Lune was invented by the Italian Alessandro Carbine. In this case, the craters will need to be filled with traditional tomato sauce.
Parts for various mechanisms, bridges and even whole houses are already being created using 3D printing technologies. But it looks like the technology has much more potential, and it can be used in the food industry. At least that's what scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who created the first food 3D printer capable of printing food, think.
According to the inventors Odeda Shosejov and Ido Braslavsky, the process of making such printers is not so complicated, and it may take no more than 5 years to enter the mass market. Their food 3D printer uses nanocellulose, proteins, fats and carbohydrates as raw materials. Now the printer can only print dough, but the researchers say their printer can do more.
Scientists have studied nanocellulose for several years and came to the conclusion that enzymes of the digestive tract calmly digest this substance, and nanocellulose itself does not cause any side reactions. In the future, experts will be mixing nanocellulose not only with nutrients, but also with vitamins, trace elements and antioxidants. The nanocellulose binds the ingredients under the influence of temperature from the laser of the printer. In this case, laser processing allows you to give the printed dish a more "traditional" look.
According to the inventors themselves, their development is quite promising. In addition to its use in cooking, it will help those who adhere to a strict diet - diabetics, vegetarians, professional athletes, allergy sufferers and so on. In general, all those to whom the presence of certain substances in food can harm their health.
During the Experimental Biology 2018 conference, South Korean scientists presented a very unusual development, which in the future claims to be an integral part of the household equipment of an apartment.
3D printing technologies have either already occupied certain niches, or will occupy them in the coming years. There are a lot of applications for the technology - from the construction of space stations and lunar bases, to the printing of human organs, however, the development of a group of scientists from South Korea is a little more mundane. It's about 3D printing food.
The device is able to reproduce the physical properties of food products, and most importantly, their nanoscale texture. To operate, the printer uses powder ingredients obtained by grinding nutrients, primarily proteins and carbohydrates, at a temperature of -100 degrees Celsius. Then the resulting powder under the influence of water, high pressure and temperature turns into a porous film.
It is difficult to overestimate the advantages of the device. First, it allows you to print food, taking into account individual preferences, including taking into account the characteristics of a particular person's metabolism. According to scientists, the device even allows you to regulate the rate of digestion, which means the ability to create the most healthy food. Secondly, the device will significantly reduce the cost of food delivery, as well as their storage, which can solve the problem of hunger for many people, especially given the forecasts of scientists who predict the growth of the world's population to 10 billion people in 2050.