2024
Foodini, a 3D food printer
The Foodini is described by its manufacturers as “the first 3D-food printer to print all types of real, fresh, nutritious foods, from savory to sweet”. They’ve already made a prototype, and are trying to raise $100,000 to begin a full production run.
The printer works by taking fresh ingredients, prepared for printing by cooking and blending, and extruding them through a nozzle on to a a glass plate. It might not sound particularly appetising, but with the right ingredients, the printer could save time and effort, or make intricate designs that would be impossible to replicate by hand.
Compared with other prototypical food printers, the Foodini focuses heavily on using fresh and natural ingredients. Rather than attempting to extrude something like chocolate into incredibly complex designs, the firm instead aims “to streamline some of cooking’s more repetitive activities – forming dough into fish-shaped crackers, or forming ravioli”. It is perhaps best thought of as an extremely fancy pasta machine.
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