[HN Gopher] Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelen... ___________________________________________________________________ Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers Author : sohkamyung Score : 24 points Date : 2021-12-23 12:13 UTC (10 hours ago) (HTM) web link (www.nature.com) (TXT) w3m dump (www.nature.com) | Wistar wrote: | Of course, not on this level but, a few weeks ago I was invited | to see an astonishing 3D confection printer in action. It was | printing a fantasy-looking cityscape to top a custom cake. I | couldn't really talk to anyone about the technology as the | operator was behind a glass partition but it looked as though it | was full color using, I'll guess, some sort of spun sugar | filament system. | | The geometric resolution was incredible, and it was very fast | (and looked very expensive). | amelius wrote: | It lacks a section where they ask a group of people to test and | judge the result. | textcortex wrote: | Literally, why? | mensetmanusman wrote: | This is so cool, I hope technology like this can be used in the | future to make tasty things that are actually healthy for you, | for example by controlling the surface area of certain flavors | and suppressing others while providing all the essential amino | acids and nutrients. | Animats wrote: | I'd wanted a laser on a 3D printer years ago, to heat a spot on | the layer below just ahead of laying new filament. 3D filament | printing is, after all, welding a hot thing to a cold thing, | which never works well. Not much laser power, just 1-2 watts. | Might be able to fix the "weaker in the layering direction" | problem. | sharmin123 wrote: ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2021-12-23 23:00 UTC)