The printed future of Christmas dinner

Will be really difficult to copy the structure of meat for example, i dont want all my food to just be the same consistance as mashed potatos, and thats what it looks like it will be so far, except for cookies, bread and other baked goods maybe.

There goes the art of cooking.

And I thought paper jams were a b**** to clean up !

But... um... what is the "ink" made out of? It's still made from food ingredients, isn't it? The raw materials used to print the food are currently limited to anything that can be extruded from a syringe. Commonly they are liquid or melted versions of ingredients, including chocolate, cookie dough, cheese, or cake batter. You'd still need to fertilize and grow and harvest the grain or milk or eggs or whatever... and then process it down to some liquidy ink... then squirt it out and then eat it? Sounds more complicated a process... with no real reason. It about time, I just hope someday they'll... [More]

Next will come the genetically altered foods to better fit the requirements of this equipment to store, remain soluble, and dispense properly. Thanks but no thanks I will eat my noodles normally.

But... um... what is the "ink" made out of? It's still made from food ingredients, isn't it? You'd still need to fertilize and grow and harvest the grain or milk or eggs or whatever... and then process it down to some liquidy ink... then squirt it out and then eat it? Sounds more complicated a process... with no real reason. How on earth would this end world hunger? I totally thought the same thing that how would it eliminate the processes involved, it would only increase it. and "You can imagine a 3D printer making homemade apple pie without the need for farming the apples, fertilizing, trans... [More]

They could install them in poor neighbourhoods and distribute them all over third world countries to address starvation. That would be good.

What's more expensive and harder to get to people - an apple, or an apple's worth of processed, gelatenized, homogenized, printable apple-product? There are times that we are susceptible to doing VERY stupid things, just because it looks flashy or futuristic or fancy. This is one of those times.

They could install them in poor neighbourhoods and distribute them all over third world countries to address starvation. That would be good. \They don't create food out of thin air. This would do absolutely nothing for hunger or poor people. I don't even understand how people can think it would help like that... You need to put syringes of food 'ink' in the top before it makes printed food for you. All this does is squirt really, really processed food out onto a piece of paper in a little shape and cook it for you. I'd rather have real food in an oven, or heck, even a frozen dinner in the micr... [More]

Sometimes, our hunger for the future overrides our sensibility. And how do you think this will end world hunger? Is everyone in the world supposed to purchase a printer which is likely to be in the price range of 100,000-500,000 us dollars, plus a specially formatted ink which will cost anywhere from $600-$900 US. Tell me again how this woyld end world hunger? Let's do a little math shall we? Let's be kind and say there are about 10,000 people in a certain town, and generous enough to say that the printers are 100,000 and the inks are 600. You would spend $1,000,000,000 on the printers and $6,... [More]