3D printers for the food moves into the kitchen

If kitchen tjansen seems a little long, so take heart, for soon there is help available 3D printers that can construct your favorite dishes.


If the cupboard is stocked with ice makers, coffee grinders, baking machines, fully automatic mincers and mandolin iron which nobody uses anyway, here's the ultimate kitchen equipment for the engineer who has everything: 3D madprinteren.

The idea has been underway for some years. The simple versions are chocolate printers that works on exactly the same principles as the famous 3D printers.

Instead of plastic or metal powder is heated up just before it is placed in layers, so we are talking about liquid chocolate is cooled down at the moment it hits the previous layer.

Another fun example of a homemade 3D printer to food, is Candyfab where the weirdest candy shapes can be created. Here's users in the development process, as the whole project runs as open source.

But the real madprintere who can create just the meal we sit and dream about - or would never dream of - is still slightly ahead. Here it is necessary to dream about new ways of preparing food. Without being able to explain the details of the actual cooking process so there is no doubt that the concept of molecular gastronomy gets a whole new meaning.

A good attempt to imagine such a comes from the Swedish giant Electrolux kitchen. Here, the annual design competition thrown a 3D printer off.

The idea is a bit like the eternal coffee brews that are up under the Christmas tree every year when there shall be found on gifts for Dad: You take an ampoule with the desired court (in the pictures from Electrolux is similar to most desserts) and stops the cartridge in the printer and out comes the product - or dessert, if you can call it that.

Chocolate Printer, built of Lego bricks
Another step up the fantasy scale find Cornucopia: Digital Gastronomy, drawing from MIT. The project has just started and if the result is just roughly holds in relation to the intentions and the stunning design images, so it probably will be able to lift an eyebrow or two.

Here refrigerated ingredients refilled ink cartridge similar container. Depending on the desired right, the contents of carefully measured quantities, mixed in a mixer.

The mixed ingredients are then sent into a chamber where it can be heated or cooled as needed. What you can do at such a madprinter, reports the story nothing about, but it is hardly a lasagna or roast beef.

The advantage of the MIT project would be to carefully measure out with the use of ingredients have full control over the nutritional value of the finished product.

For the really creative, here finally a chocolate printer with a Danish twist. It is in fact made of Lego.

Incidentally, there is little to suggest that we are even going to change our way of cooking. 40 years ago was the microwave proclaimed a revolution in the kitchen region, but many use it only for popcorn - bon appétit.