3-D food? Well
before you dismiss the idea, the future is closer than you think. It seems that
NASA has awarded a Texas company a $125,000 grant to develop a food
synthesizer to create 3-D food. Yes, you read it correctly, 3-D food!
The first thing they will make is pizza. And if this works, the company hopes
that every kitchen will have a 3D printer.
Here's how it works:
"The printer takes its ingredients from attached canisters of powdered
food and oils. It combines those ingredients in a mixing chamber and uses the
3-D printer to shape the food. With a pizza, the dough is mixed from
powders and printed as the first layer. It gets cooked as it is printed,
according to Quartz. Then a layer of tomato sauce is mixed and added. And so
on." http://money.msn.com/now/post.aspx?post=991cb217-4874-4531-85dd-ca1049357c75
All this sounds
interesting, but how will it taste? That's going to be the real question. Will
it take the place of cooks reading recipes, mixing bowls, and measuring cups?
Do I just type in what I have a craving for and out pops my smoked salmon with
dill sauce? All this “Star Trek” stuff sounds intriguing, but there's something
about being able to say, "I slaved over a hot stove and made it myself."
That a 3-D printer can't do.
With all this scientific
stuff going on, I guess the next family reunion will be held on Mars after all, lol. I'm
just saying...
When we start printing our food that is when I will go on a liquid diet!!! Don't get me wrong, I do not like slaving over a hot stove for a package of instant grits when the microwave has conked out, but PRINTED FOOD!! That's too dang much. Not only that, $125,000 to experience is too dang much money to be wasting on that! that money could have been given to this nation's farmers.
ReplyDeleteYou all can go on to Mars and eat your printed food.