3D Food Printers

[bigchef]

There are a few good quality, well priced makes out there: Makerbot, fab@home and so on. They can use chocolate, frosting, but and other edible materials. Anyone played with them? I thought about using it to make intricate compound butters, scan clients and reproduce them in chocolate or ice. Even seperate the colors of a painting, using adobe and use the stipple effect. The painting would then be reproduced using a variety of different colored dots of icing. What do you all think?

[BadRabbit]

Everybody I talk to thinks they are a novelty whose time has not come. The current models only work well with a small amount of substances and are thus VERY limited.

[FoodPrintTom]

Has any one got thoughts on the last versions of 3D printed food machines?

[Paul Fink]

1 hour ago, FoodPrintTom said:

Has any one got thoughts on the last versions of 3D printed food machines?

Got links to those machines?

[btbyrd]

Mmm... extruded paste. 

[Tri2Cook]

4 minutes ago, btbyrd said:

Mmm... extruded paste. 

Yeah, like emulsified sausages, pasta (when using an extruder, obviously), any smooth purees or other items being pushed through a piping bag or squeeze bottle for use... gotta hate that stuff.

[FoodPrintTom]

Some of the available 3D printing machines: 

Nufood (liquid printer) - http://www.nufood.io/

https://es.3dsystems.com/culinary

Chocolate Extrusion printer - http://chocedge.com/

Focus printer (paste extrusion) - http://www.3dbyflow.com/materials

Foodini (extrusion) - https://www.naturalmachines.com/

[Paul Fink]

I'll admit when it comes to most modern cooking technology I'm a luddite.

But I'm really intrigued by 3D printing. Some of those dishes on the Foodini site were very interesting. 

[paulraphael]

I'm imagining some kind of sculptural presentation made from some kind of fluid-gel capellini. 

But not sure I want to eat it.