3D食物打印机问世

Feel like eating a hamburger? Or would you rather have a pizza? No problem, the 3D food printer will create anything you want, literally¹ at the click of a button.

想吃汉堡包？还是匹萨饼？都没问题，只须按下按钮，3D食物打印机就可以做出你想要的任何美味。

Easy squeezy: Scientists are developing a 3D food printer that creates real meals from syringed raw ingredients
Scientists at Cornell University in New York are developing a commercially viable²（可行的） 3D food printer, which uses raw food 'inks' that are fed into the printer and once you load the recipe and press the button, voila（那就是，瞧） !

An electronic blueprint³ states exactly what materials go where and are drawn⁴ up using traditional engineering computer-aided design (CAD) software.

"FabApps would allow you to tweak your food's taste, texture⁵ and other properties. Maybe you really love biscuits, but want them extra flaky（薄片的） . You would change the slider and the recipe and the instructions would adjust accordingly," the Daily Mail quoted Dr Jeffrey Ian Lipton as saying.

So anything that can be loaded into syringes - liquid cheese, chocolate and cake batter⁶ - can be printed out! So far, they have had some success creating cookies, cake and 'designer domes⁷' made of turkey meat.

Homaro Cantu, chef at Chicago's Moto, has "printed sushi using an ink jet printer".

"You can imagine a 3D printer making homemade apple pie without the need for farming the apples, fertilising, transporting, refrigerating（制冷） , packaging, fabricating（制作，装配） , cooking, serving and the need for all of the materials in these processes like cars, trucks, pans, coolers, etc.," said Cantu.

"3D printing will do for food what e-mail and instant messaging did for communication."