"3D-Printed Cheese Is Gooey, Melty and Probably Delicious " Topic

"Any way you slice it, cheese is considered by many to be a favorite food, whether cut into cubes as a snack, grated over pasta, layered in a sandwich or melted as a topping for pizza.

This beloved dairy treat can transform easily from a solid to a gooey liquid and back to a solid again. So it should come as no surprise that cheese is also a candidate for experiments with food and 3D printers. These projects involve squeezing a gel, paste or semiliquid material through a nozzle to shape it into a solid — and edible — object.

In a recent study, scientists 3D-printed cheese and conducted a series of tests evaluating its texture, resilience and "meltability," to see how this cheese from the future would stack up — on a structural level — against regular processed cheese…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Not sure how that will go. Do an experiment first.

1. Find a subject who is willing to try "a new brand" of cheese.

2. Have the test subject try the cheese.
a. If the test subject doesn't like the cheese, don't eat it yourself.
b. If test subject likes the cheese, offer more.

3. Wait for a while.
a. If the test subject dies, don't eat the cheese.
b. If the test subject lives, the cheese is probably okay.

What?

As if processed cheese wasn't bad enough anyway…

Why do we need to make cheese complicated?

Yep, it will taste just like processed cheese, and perhaps worse.

No doubt, it will have the "plasticky" (I think I've invented a new word, which emphasis on the 'icky part, in this case) taste, much like those individually wrapped "processed cheese" slices, which aren't really cheese, and taste horrible.

I suspect it'll also be like those water coolers, and soda fountains, or beer keg lines, which go off rather quickly when not cleaned regularly.

I wonder how easy it will be to clean "processed cheese" out of the injector lines, and the sprayer nozzles, and what dire things will happen to people when they don't?

Yum………………..(heavy sarcasm intended).

Why not just use this:

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clean "processed cheese" out of the injector lines, and the sprayer nozzles, and what dire things will happen to people when they don't?

No more or less than any other kitchen appliance they might have. Which in some cases I have seen is quite dire indeed!

I wonder how easy it will be to clean "processed cheese" out of the injector lines, and the sprayer nozzles,

This is already solved by the regular 3D printer community. Just swirl the dirty bits with acetone! :)

Or you could just do like cleaning the coffee maker and run water with a shot of vinegar or lemon juice through it (doesn't take a lot, but it makes a difference), then two pots of just water.

Then you just dispose of the Plastic Cheese Jetsam … hmmmmm … I think I have my new band name, now!

Is there a market for 3D-printed plastic cheese jetsam?

You're missing the awesome connection to our hobby. This technology will allow us to have edible troops. Whenever you kill an enemy soldier, you get to eat him. I can't wait for the kickstarter.

We already do this with gingerbread at Christmas and with gummi bears (yuck! :( ) and other candies for some Kaiju games.

But I can see the merit in expanding the menu. I suppose there is an inherent penalty in killing the random enemy with embedded scorpion pepper.

(smile)

Amicalement
Armand

They could technically say it even comes from cows if they can teach the cows to run the 3-D printers… ;-)

First they'll run #D printers, then they'll be driving taxi's and soon it'll be a one million cow march on the Capital demanding equality in all things.

Don't stir up the cows. Use chickens instead.

Some more foods. Myself, I thought chocolate and sugar sculptures would be more researched, since they can be used for custom cake and other dessert decorations. OTOH, new technologies are best used on tasks that current technology does not already achieve.

Like pizza in outer space.

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