Anyone order a food replicator?

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This is a video posted by IGN on Jan 8th, so some of you may have already seen this.

Essentially, Chris and Marty over at IGN had a field day with one of the 3D printers that was showcased at the CES 2015 show, earlier this month. This printer specializes on printing with foodstuff.

The printer can print with variety of materials, ranging from dough mixes, sauces, chocolate and similar ingredients and the printer surfaces is a hot plate that can cook said foodstuff.

While it won't dish out an Earl Grey on command, the printer is capable of creating custom shaped cookies, pizzas, confectioneries and other things in that order. While that may not sound like the most exciting (or healthiest) of varieties, I can see some creative individuals making fun stuff with this.

This model of the food printer will be made commercially available for around $2000 dollars or less. Not exactly my price range but who knows? Maybe this is gonna become the next microwave in few years.

 

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Spoiler: ...holy...mother of God

I wonder though about the health part. I know you said it wouldn't be the healthiest but one big reason our food is so shitty for us is all the preservatives and sugar and whatnot in it and that's something you could virtually eliminate if you "printed" your food like that. I assume it would use actual ingredients (like...actual flour not pumped with additives) that might make that option far better for you than getting a pizza at the store.

Like a lot of stuff at the CES show, I am cautiously curious.

 

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I wonder though about the health part. I know you said it wouldn't be the healthiest but one big reason our food is so shitty for us is all the preservatives and sugar and whatnot in it and that's something you could virtually eliminate if you "printed" your food like that. I assume it would use actual ingredients (like...actual flour not pumped with additives) that might make that option far better for you than getting a pizza at the store.

Well, assuming this thing (or its derivative) takes off, I can easily see stores catering to it, selling "food cartridges" with said unhealthy extra ingredients/additives. With that said, I can also totally see people making their own mixes and like I also mentioned, creative individuals may come up with alternative ingredients for this thing to use. By that I mean it should be totally possible to have gluten-free/vegan/raw-food/whatever else versions of foodstuff made with this thing. Imagination is really the only limit.