My 3-D Food Printer Is Going To Run Out Of Chocolate

Nick Upton — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:58:25 +0000

The 3-D Printer is pretty sweet, but it can’t print me a cake.

So of course MIT researchers are working on building a printer that can create edible food any way the owner wants it — and in any form.

I don’t expect these sorts of food printers in my kitchen — ever. But it could mean some interesting things for the ultra gourmet food industry. They are always toying with things like liquid nitrogen and laser cooking and all the things normal cooks could never afford.

Who knows what kind of creations cooks turned engineers could create — perfect spheres of flavor or fragile garnish spindles.

Nobody has actually printed anything just yet, but the concept images are very cool, and the concept food is already making me drool.

[Images Via Dornob]

Cookin’ With Bing

J. Matthew Zoss — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:27:54 +0000

I use a lot of Google software every single day, so when Microsoft’s Bing search engine was released I wasn’t too tempted to switch, even when the positive reviews started trickling out. But as the search engine has added new features to help separate itself from the pack, it’s steadily become a more interesting program. I really like this latest feature: an ingredient recipe search. Type an ingredient into the search bar (from something common to the outlandish) and it will return recipes from popular cooking pages right there on page, without making you click through. I do a my fair share of recipe searching online because I’m hopeless in the kitchen on my own, so this is a pretty useful tool. No more clicking back and forth to see which chocolate chip cookie recipe looks the best – they’re all laid out there on the same page.

What’s more, the Bing recipe search has recipe ratings, as well as fat and calorie comparisons so you can compare them to one another. You can even sort recipes by courses, so you won’t be flooded with entrees when you just want to whip up an appetizer.

See the Bing recipe search demo in action here.

Story and Image via Lifehacker

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My 3-D Food Printer Is Going To Run Out Of Chocolate

Cookin’ With Bing