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Not exactly a Replicator. You need to prepare the ingredients yourself or buy prepped "ingredient capsules" -- for specific meals. So, if you have the ingredie

by wanda 12y ago

Not exactly a Replicator. You need to prepare the ingredients yourself or buy prepped "ingredient capsules" -- for specific meals. So, if you have the ingredients, why would you drop $1300 to print the meal rather than make it yourself? If you could buy a generic all-purpose capsule that was basically a raw food supplement, which could then be used to print many different meals, then it might make more sense.

zyxley 12y ago
This is about what I thought. If it needs effectively the same prep work as a normal meal, plus cooking, there's basically no reason for anybody to go to the extra hassle of shuffling stuff in and out of the machine versus just doing the middle step themselves. The only actual draw I can see here is for professional chefs making artistic or experimental dishes (for example, complicated multilevel cakes), and even then, since it's just extruding raw ingredients, I'd be surprised if there's much if anything complicated that it can "build" out of anything softer than cookie dough or decorative icing.