3d printed food

If there is anything better than good food its being its being able to shape that food into whatever you want. Now with 3d printers you can do just that. Sadly this kind of printing has not reached a point where we can 3d print any kind of edible substances such as a full size hamburger with cheese, lettuce, meat, and with the buns all in one print. Although we have already reached the stage where we can 3d print food out of chocolate, such as little chocolate figurines and what not. Down bellow is a video demonstrating how a 3d printer prints chocolate snowflakes :

 
Not only do they have printers capable of producing chocolate objects but now they also have printers who are capable of taking your 2d or 3d designs or pictures on your computer and afterwards making a pancake resembling your drawing. Here is a short promotional video showing off the "PancakeBot" which is currently still on Kickstarter for development:

But enough with the silly and small - scale developments, a group of engineers and design students at the Indian Institute of Technology called the ninjas decided to take this 3d printed food concept to a whole new level. There main idea consist of implementing 3d food printers on planes so that people can design their meals the way they want it and they could then have it 3d printed for them. This way the food and meals would always remain fresh for the customers and if they are on some form of a diet or have allergies to a certain food they can customize their meals to their desire. Now with all of the chocolate and pancake 3d printers out, I believe that they could serve as good ways of experimenting and prototyping but not as a successful marketing item. But the idea of having 3d food printers for planes is surely a promising idea .