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3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« on: May 28, 2013, 06:08:45 pm »
Ladies and gentlemen, NASA has decided to develop a food replicator...of sorts. Welcome to the Age of Star Trek.

http://planetsave.com/2013/05/22/3d-printed-pizza-in-space-nasa-funds-food-replicator-for-space-station/
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But many folks reading of such amazing applications have probably also wondered: what about 3D printing food, ala the ‘food replicator’ machine featured frequently on old Star Trek episodes?

Well, wonder no more, as NASA has been thinking along the same lines and has recently invested $125,000.00 in a research company called Systems & Materials Research Cooperation (SMRC) to design a 3D printer capable of printing food — specifically pizza — using 30-year “shelf stable” food stocks.

Why pizza? Well, it’s the one basic food item that has never made it into space (in any form), but, it is also a food that is amenable to how the technology works — by building up 3D objects one layer at a time. Pizza is ideal for this process in that it can be made by layering bread dough, cheese* and sauce — plus “toppings” — sequentially.

However, the food stocks used here will not be ordinary, Earth kitchen ingredients; proteins and carbohydrates will come from “base powders” (like the toner powders in your office printer) derived from grass, algae and insects.

SMRC has even higher hopes for its technology than space; the company feels it’s 3D food printing machine will be crucial to providing food security in a predicted future world of 9 billion humans (by 2050).

Is there anything this fucking technology can't do?
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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #1 on: May 28, 2013, 06:10:01 pm »
I think we might as well make one big thread talking about the advancements that 3-D printers have made rather than make separate ones...just a thought.

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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #2 on: May 28, 2013, 06:14:03 pm »
Ladies and gentlemen, NASA has decided to develop a food replicator...of sorts. Welcome to the Age of Star Trek.

http://planetsave.com/2013/05/22/3d-printed-pizza-in-space-nasa-funds-food-replicator-for-space-station/
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But many folks reading of such amazing applications have probably also wondered: what about 3D printing food, ala the ‘food replicator’ machine featured frequently on old Star Trek episodes?

Well, wonder no more, as NASA has been thinking along the same lines and has recently invested $125,000.00 in a research company called Systems & Materials Research Cooperation (SMRC) to design a 3D printer capable of printing food — specifically pizza — using 30-year “shelf stable” food stocks.

Why pizza? Well, it’s the one basic food item that has never made it into space (in any form), but, it is also a food that is amenable to how the technology works — by building up 3D objects one layer at a time. Pizza is ideal for this process in that it can be made by layering bread dough, cheese* and sauce — plus “toppings” — sequentially.

However, the food stocks used here will not be ordinary, Earth kitchen ingredients; proteins and carbohydrates will come from “base powders” (like the toner powders in your office printer) derived from grass, algae and insects.

SMRC has even higher hopes for its technology than space; the company feels it’s 3D food printing machine will be crucial to providing food security in a predicted future world of 9 billion humans (by 2050).

Is there anything this fucking technology can't do?

Make the pizza taste good? Grass, algae and insect derived base powders...I love science, but I guess the fine dining restaurant work experience in me is balking at the thought :o
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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2013, 06:43:06 pm »
They need to make a salt and vinegar crisp printer.

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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2013, 02:00:42 am »
Is there anything this fucking technology can't do?
Make the pizza taste good? Grass, algae and insect derived base powders...I love science, but I guess the fine dining restaurant work experience in me is balking at the thought :o
Don't be so prejudiced, just because the ingredients are what they are doesn't mean it can't taste good.
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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2013, 03:08:05 am »
Make the pizza taste good? Grass, algae and insect derived base powders...I love science, but I guess the fine dining restaurant work experience in me is balking at the thought :o
To note... sugarcane is a type of grass. As are many other commonly consumed plants. People the world over eat insects as a dietary staple.

Something being unusual doesn't automatically mean bad. Especially in this case, where they're talking about products refined down to their constituent elements.

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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2013, 06:39:36 am »
Welcome to the Age of Star Trek.

I've heard that before. But I'm still waiting on my warp drive and transporters.

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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2013, 01:55:35 pm »
Oh boy.  why can I see the anti-GMO crowd rallying against this as "unnatural" already?

Ignoring the inevitable "OMG poisoning conspiracy!" side for a moment, I have to say this is pretty neat.
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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2013, 04:33:19 pm »
Will it add anchovies if I ask for them?
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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2013, 06:25:48 pm »
Will it add anchovies if I ask for them?
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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #10 on: June 04, 2013, 03:04:21 pm »
Make the pizza taste good? Grass, algae and insect derived base powders...I love science, but I guess the fine dining restaurant work experience in me is balking at the thought :o

Shouldn't fine dining restaurant work experience tell you that ingredients that normally sound ridiculous or that they shouldn't be used together can make something great?

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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #11 on: June 04, 2013, 07:16:22 pm »
Fine dining is about sourcing from the best of the freshest available foods, then taking the trouble to prep it and cook it in ways that preserves textures and brings out the flavor inherent in each natural ingredients' component complex carbohydrates, long chain protein molecules, enzymes, alkaloids, flavonoids, salts, fatty acids, folic acids, citric acids, etc. etc. Many of these components break down/are destroyed in the freeze drying process. You can reconstruct a pizza facsimile from chemically similar base powders, but it cannot have all the flavor profiles of fresh pizza due to the freeze drying step. Now, as Star Trek did it, each complex molecule of a given food is chemically replicated from a detailed pattern data base, using simpler molecules kept in mass storage in the ship's galley, then combined "magically" with some electromagnetic gizmo (basically a transporter) into 3D pieces, already in prepped form, along with sauce or w/e. That super high level of tech would make a fantastic pizza. Like I said - I love science. This idea for a 3D food printer is a great start, but don't expect the pizza to taste much like your expectations.
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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #12 on: June 05, 2013, 11:09:02 pm »
What if an astronaut ate this pizza in space; found it gross, and then projectile vomited it in the spacecraft. I'd imagine that would be a nightmare but for some reason that visualization makes laugh and get grossed out at the same time.

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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #13 on: June 06, 2013, 01:48:12 am »
What if an astronaut ate this pizza in space; found it gross, and then projectile vomited it in the spacecraft. I'd imagine that would be a nightmare but for some reason that visualization makes laugh and get grossed out at the same time.

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Re: 3-D Printed Pizza...IN SPACE!
« Reply #14 on: June 09, 2013, 06:48:04 am »
I am reserving judgement until I hear how the 3D printed pizza tasted. We aren't in the age of Star Trek till they can make good pizza with their high-tech gadgets.

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