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Imagine stepping into the kitchen of the great smart home of the future. Sitting between your connected stove and IoT-enabled toaster is a 3D food printer, able to print and cook your favourite meal with a single touch of a screen. According to 3D food printing company Natural Machines, this concept is not far from becoming a reality. Others, such as pizza printing specialist BeeHex, believe it is a matter of years before it becomes a common feature of not only the home, but in restaurant kitchens and commercial enterprises as well.

TechRepublic spoke to some leading companies in 3D food printing to find out more about the process of 3D printing food, its benefits, and how long before we come home to our 3D-printed dinner. The road to 3D-printed meals. 3D Systems Until 2014, 3D food printers focused predominantly on intricate, sugar-heavy confections. Then one Barcelona-based company made strides towards 3D-printing something you could actually eat for dinner. Natural Machines is a 3D food printing and IoT company and the maker of the first 3D food printer to make both savoury and sweet foods with fresh ingredients. Established in November 2012, the company originally focused on 3D-printing sweets and snacks before shifting focus due to COO and co-founder Lynette Kucsma's healthy eating habits. On discovering the concept of 3D food printing, Kucsma wanted to know why they couldn't use their own fresh, wholesome ingredients rather than a pre-filled food capsule for printing confections.

Additionally, her co-founder owned a bakery and wanted to distribute her product around the world, but was held back because it was too expensive. Software Hp Printer more. 'The expense was not the ingredients or the labour that went into those cakes, but it was the packaging and preserving, the freezing, the shipping, that made those cakes quite astronomical in terms of price,' Kucsma told TechRepublic. The company needed a solution that could enable mass manufacturing in several countries around the world, as well as something that could print a wider range of foods than just confectionery.

In 2014, Natural Machines launched Foodini, a 10kg, 4.7 inch high, Android-powered 3D food printer, which is currently in production and available for select customers. Foodini users just need a Wi-Fi connection to choose recipes from Natural Machines' community site, which they can also do remotely from a smartphone or tablet.

They can choose from a library of shapes or create their own to print. Hp Scanjet 5100c User Manual more. Up to five food capsules can be loaded into the printer at one time. It also has different nozzle sizes to accommodate different textures, Kucsma said, which means additives such as maltodextrin aren't needed in the food to hold its shape. Image: Natural Machines 'From day one we designed Foodini to work with food, and we've always designed it to work with fresh foods,' Kucsma said. 'So a lot of the systems we built in, a lot of the software we're using — it's customised to work with food; we have food-grade food-safe materials.

You can print whatever you want without adding anything — you don't need gelling agents, we don't need any types of additives.' Foodini isn't suited to print every type of food, nor was it ever intended to; rather that there are certain foodstuffs that a 3D printer excels at, such as crackers or certain pasta shapes — Foodini's smallest nozzle size can print as thin as 0.5mm, which would be hard to achieve by hand. 'We actually use a lot of artificial intelligence and artificial vision to watch what's happening so we can adjust things as necessary and print as fast as possible,' Kucsma said.

'If you're talking about flat crackers, you can do that in 20 seconds, you can do a personalised pizza in five minutes.' SEE: (Tech Pro Research) Foodini is currently a B2B product being rolled out gradually to professional kitchens and other enterprises. El Arte De Comunicarse Pdf Printer. Based on market feedback, Natural Machines will then adjust the product with the aim of targeting home users as well. Once Foodini reaches home kitchen users, it will be beneficial for people who don't enjoy cooking or otherwise cannot.