Mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor is working on a printer that would use ”basic ‘building blocks’ of food in replaceable powder cartridges,” to make foods. The pizza printer will first print a layer of dough, which will be cooked while being printed, before mixing tomato powder with water and oil to print a tomato sauce. The topping for the pizza will be a nondescript “protein layer.” -The Verge. Pizza is just an example of what the 3D printer can do–likely because it seems easy to ‘print’ being flat and mostly uniform–but the printer will be able to do all kinds of different foods. Currently the device is in development for use by astronauts on long-distance journeys (hence the NASA funding, $125,000,) but eventually the developers hope to use 3D printed foods in impoverished areas: the printers would be able to easily create food with little to no waste in a small space with little labor.
Work Cited:
“FINALLY: 3D Printed Pizzas To Exist.” HelloGiggles FINALLY 3D Printed Pizzas To Exist Comments. N.p., n.d. Web. 28 May 2013.
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