But Will It Fly...?

But will it fly... I mean will it taste good?

3-D printing food could be the future...But will it?

Sure it looks good, and it isn't impossible (to a certain extent) but what people really look for in food is one component: TASTE. Can 3-D printed food actually taste good? This is the question we have hanging in the air.

Now some people here know the Spongebob Squarepants episode where Spongebob turns into Spongebob Normalpants to impress Squidward and that affected his work. If you knew the episode, Spongebob ended up printing out Krabby Patties from his computer because it was a more "normal" thing to do. The Krabby Patties ended up tasting like paper, though, giving birth to a potential stereotype (meaning one of the questions asked to me from my friend about 3-D printing food was "Wouldn't that taste like paper?").

Not at all, actually.

3-D printed foods have the potential to taste good. Even though you have to actually provide the inkjet with the ingredients, such as sugars or meat, once fed through the inkjet, the printer can print the object requested, with any material. The options have limits, but now, chefs and scientists alike are experimenting using more unique materials, a focus I heard being purees to make solid foods, such as carrots, and some fruits, using various temperatures to make the material stiffen and become edible.

The only thing is that the printer can't make the foods from scratch, but 3-D printer manufacturers will be working on making advanced computer technology to be able to solve the problem, but for now, it is still very cool (and tastes good).