NASA is funding prototpye of a 3D food printer

[Teddy]

3D Print Your Food!
NASA is funding research into 3D printed food which would provide astronauts with meals during long space flights. The futuristic food printers would use cartridges of powder and oils which would have a shelf life of 30 years.

While the idea may seem like something out of a Sci-Fi movie, the process of printing food has already been proven possible. The brains behind the innovation, Anjan Contractor, previously printed chocolate in a bid to prove his concept.

Contractor and his company, Systems & Materials Research Corporation, will now use NASA’s $125,000 grant to attempt to print a pizza. The grant was applied for on March 28, 2013. The pizza printer is still in the conceptual stage, and will begin to be built in two weeks, Quartz reported.

The printer will first print a layer of dough, which will be cooked while being printed. Tomato powder will then be mixed with water and oil to print a tomato sauce. The topping for the pizza will be a “protein layer” which could come from any source – animals, milk, or plants.

http://rt.com/usa/nasa-3d-pizza-printer-590/
Other sources
http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/21/4350948/nasa-funding-3d-food-printer-pizza
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/05/22/nasa-to-fund-worlds-first-3d-food-printer/

[JDC]

I can already imagine the future assholes who would use this to send printed food that can contain poison or something else dangerous. :devroll:

[Mikal]

3d porn!

[TheLegitHabibi]

I can already imagine the future assholes who would use this to send printed food that can contain poison or something else dangerous. :devroll:

You'd have to put the 'ink' which would be ingredients in this case so... Umm. You would have control over it.


Maybe We'd have 'inks' named as ingredients. We could download files and they tell us the 'ingredients' required. People could share awesome dishes around the world. This reminds me of Back to the future. The lady put a miniature pizza in an oven type thing and 5 seconds later it was a steaming hot large ass pizza to feed the whole family.

[Pandalink]

damn future, you scary

[[WS]Jacob]

Wonder how it tastes.

[KhornateMonkey]

Wonder how it tastes.

Like Airplane/Microwave food

[Duel]

'Paper' plates.. 

[[WS]Jacob]

Like Airplane/Microwave food

I don't really like the taste of airplane.

[TiMoN]

The printer will first print a layer of dough, which will be cooked while being printed. Tomato powder will then be mixed with water and oil to print a tomato sauce. The topping for the pizza will be a “protein layer” which could come from any source – animals, milk, or plants.

Not going to test. Burgers or nothing.