Imagine you're a business owner and went out to eat with all your employees. Now, picture the look on their faces when you all sat down to a meal of pasta shaped
like your company's logo. If a collaboration between Italian pasta maker Barilla and Dutch research organization TNO comes to fruition, restaurants could one day have 3D food printers that make this a reality.
According to Dutch news Web site Trouw,
the two have been working on a fast 3D food printer that prints pasta
and is targeted at the restaurant market. Diners could bring a USB stick
containing their 3D designs, and chefs could plug-and-print on the
spot.
Project leader Kjeld van Bommel told the Web site, "Suppose you are
married for 25 years, you go out to eat and you want to surprise your
wife with pasta in the shape of a rose. If you have a design with you on
a USB flash drive, the printer can make it."
He told the Web site that the printer in its current form can
produce 15 to 20 pieces of pasta in just two minutes; 10 times as fast
as it was capable of two years ago. The team is currently working on
increasing that speed to a workable restaurant level.
According to The Guardian,
van Bommel, said the project was only in preliminary
stages and refused to make any further comment. Given that the first
kitchen-ready 3D food printer is due to hit the consumer market
later this year, though, we can't imagine others will be terribly far
behind. And pasta, made of malleable dough, seems a particularly
appropriate material.
Source: Trouw
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