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There's an important distinction between these two predictions which this comparison belies: * "astronaut food" completely sacrifices the art and enjoyment of
by burke 11y ago
There's an important distinction between these two predictions which this comparison belies:
* "astronaut food" completely sacrifices the art and enjoyment of food for efficiency.
* 3D printing is a way to explore methods of increasing art and enjoyment of food (certainly not efficiency).
The complete absence of "astronaut food" in daily life, with the exception of Soylent/Ensure for a small minority, is I think indicative of two things:
1. We still don't really know what optimal nutrition is, so "try to eat lots of green things" is generally viewed as optimal. People rightfully don't trust anyone to decide what's optimal and codify it as a single food.
2. People don't even want to eat optimally, they want to enjoy eating. Astronaut food does not deliver on this.
3D printing does not attempt to provide optimal nutrition, but explores avenues to increase enjoyment of food. "Revolution", maybe not, but these two prediction are 100% orthogonal IMO.
- jsprogrammer 11y agoMashed potato is still mashed potato, even if it was piped out of a tube. It's difficult to imagine how piped mash will result in a substantial increase in the enjoyment of my food. I would think that the food may even need to compromised in texture, and perhaps flavor, in order to accommodate the piping mechanism.
- burke 11y agoYeah, we'll see. I suspect there are chefs with more imaginative uses of this than you or I have. All I'm saying is you can't rule it out for the same reason as nutrient pills.
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- photoJ 11y agoNever had potato foam then I assume? ie: http://theforkchicago.typepad.com/blog/2012/02/in-the-time-i-have-been-away-from-the-blog-i-have-been-devoting-all-of-my-time-to-studying-my-craft-i-have-been-working-full.html http://theforkchicago.typepad.com/blog/2012/02/in-the-time-i...
- jsprogrammer 11y agoI do not believe I have had potato foam. My comment was more about automated plating composition, than a particular preparation technique, or recipe.
- vacri 11y agoHow does piping it out of a tube turn mashed potato into potato foam?
- photoJ 11y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVrFphqmqk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVrFphqmqk
- dominotw 11y ago>People don't even want to eat optimally, they want to enjoy eating. Astronaut food does not deliver on this. Really? I increase my enjoyment of food by eating when I am really actually hungry. Everything tastes good when you are hungry. Why do we need fancy tricks to make regular food palatable, Am I missing something here.