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Is someone in the world already working on the 3D printing of the cheeseburger? With the Mac food being so standard why even use a single human in its preparati

• krapp 8y ago
  How would 3D printed food even work? You would grind the ingredients into a paste first then extrude them all out into some vague semblance of their original form? It's not as if you can 3D print cheese, tomatoes and beef from the same substrate without Star Trek levels of quantum mechanical superwoo. Someone posted a link to a startup a few weeks ago[0,1] that wants to try automating food... that's more likely to be what fully automated fast food would look like. [0]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17368139 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17368139 [1]https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/creator-hamburger-robot/ https://techcrunch.com/2018/06/21/creator-hamburger-robot/
  • flatfilefan 8y ago
    Who said they should be printed from the same substrate? Color printers is a thing, right?
    • krapp 8y ago
      That's usually what people seem to think of when they consider 3D printers, because that's what 3D printers tend to do. Otherwise to "3D print" a tomato slice you would spray tomato slurry layer by layer into the shape of a tomato slice, which would just be silly and far less efficient (and probably more expensive) than having a person slice a tomato.