The 3D Food Printer

A team at Cornell University's Computational Synthesis Lab are building a 3D food printer which they hope one day will be as commonplace as the microwave oven or blender. Just pop the raw food 'inks' in the top, load the recipe - or 'FabApp' - and the machine would do the rest.

'FabApps' would allow you to tweak your foods taste, texture and other properties. Maybe you really love biscuits, but want them extra flaky. You would change the slider and the recipe and the instructions would adjust accordingly. The goal is to blow the lid off cooking as we know it and change the future of food production.