Stereolithography Meets Food

We’ve talked before about the use of 3D Printers to make objects, but we never considered food. This might be an early sign of things to come: a chef in Chicago is using his Canon printer to make printed food:

Perhaps [Homaro] Cantu’s greatest innovation at Moto is a modified Canon i560 inkjet printer (which he calls the “food replicator” in homage to Star Trek) that prints flavoured images onto edible paper. The print cartridges are filled with food-based “inks”, including juiced carrots, tomatoes and purple potatoes, and the paper tray contains sheets of soybean and potato starch. The printouts are flavoured by dipping them in a powder of dehydrated soy sauce, squash, sugar, vegetables or sour cream, and then they are frozen, baked or fried.

The photo above shows a piece of “sushi” made up of sheets of edible paper!

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[via 3Yen.com]