3D printed food

You can’t make a three-course dinner out of 3D printed food. At least yet. We take a closer look at facts and myths about food 3D printing.

Product designers and engineers have been using 3D printing technology for years but it’s still a novelty for many makers and artists who discovered the technology after it became desktop-size and more affordable. Culinary chefs and the food industry are another groups eager to utilize 3D printing in their works.

Sweet applications
Experiments made by 3D Systems show a bright future for food 3D printing in confectionary. They created a series of amazing cake toppings which couldn’t be made without this technology. These also led to the creation of Chef Jet machine able to 3D print with sugar and is fully certified for food production. Ability to customize products could become one of the biggest advantages of food 3D printing, although so far not many pastry chefs were able to utilize it on a bigger scale. At least yet.

Food industry giants are already setting an example of how food 3D printing can be implemented and utilized in various stages of product development and food production. British company Cadbury is using custom-made 3D printers for creating molds and prototypes of new sweets that often wouldn’t be possible to manufacture without a complex production line in place. This way they managed to quicken the product development process and lower the costs of inventing and introducing new products to the market.

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