View Full Version : The future of food?
KaOzWomBaT
06-10-2009, 2:38 AM
http://www.firstscience.com/home/articles/technology/futuristic-food_1734.html
So, food straight from your printer ey? Well that sounds convenient but do we think it will catch on? Will it just be Pummeled down by the large food industry that doesn't want to lose business, or will they embrace this new technology?
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What are your thoughts on this?
It's just flavoured paper. Sounds gross. If I want sushi I'll eat sushi, not rice paper flavoured with soy sauce.
There isn't really a need for Chefs anymore....great...more unimployment >.>
Scrotemeal
06-10-2009, 3:12 AM
Wow. Some of these are crazy. The inside out bread and steak seem cool, but I don't know if I'd want it.
HailCrest
06-10-2009, 3:24 AM
That's... gross. Part of enjoying cuisine is the texture; and a large part of it perhaps. You can make paper that tastes like a perfectly marinated steak; but the paper's still going to be all mushy at the same time which is a big turnoff.
...for foodies.
Savaril
06-10-2009, 3:45 AM
Yeah texture is a big part of food in general. See: mushy cereal
Tyler_Legrand
06-10-2009, 3:53 AM
I wouldn't assume things until I tried the food.
Although I'm confused why 'mushiness' is a concern since the article talked about freezing/baking/frying the printouts.
If floating dessert can make me talk funny I'd be for it.
Ureshii
06-10-2009, 4:12 AM
Wow. Some of these are crazy. The inside out bread and steak seem cool, but I don't know if I'd want it.
I'd pass on inside out pig.
Cantu also plans to levitate an entire meal in front of diners using superconductors and handheld ion particle guns
Holy shit that's awesome. Why hasn't this sort of technology been applied to other fields? Like well I don't know giant laser tractor beams of death?
Sequence2Destruction
06-10-2009, 5:09 AM
Holy shit that's awesome. Why hasn't this sort of technology been applied to other fields? Like well I don't know giant laser tractor beams of death?
Couldn't you have just said death ray?
Tyler_Legrand
06-10-2009, 5:13 AM
Why hasn't this sort of technology been applied to other fields? Like well I don't know giant laser tractor beams of death?
http://img.en.china.cn/0/0,0,92,20376,533,400,9fc9a1ef.jpg
Weniger
06-10-2009, 5:28 AM
I want a printer I can eat.
Seattle_Steven
06-10-2009, 5:59 AM
Wouldn't it be paper thin though? I mean to get a steak wouldn't you have to print out like 50 pages and put them on top of each other?
InnerDemon
06-10-2009, 7:20 AM
Meh, I don't think that's the future of food. This is only an eccentricity people might be curious about. The future of food is small tasteless tablets of proteins and such. People might dig this for its sheer oddness and say "Hey, let's see that new restaurant that serves paper :lol:" but I doubt they'll make a custom out of this. I mean, you have steak and paper that tastes like stake, what could make you choose the latter?
By the way, I always chew paper when I'm bored so this might do it for me, were it to be sold in small portions in stores.
BreakTheWalls
06-10-2009, 10:15 AM
I haven't seen food developments this odd since Heston Blumenthal.
It's just essentially what poor people would do to cook books. Tear delicious food off the pages and pretend it's said delicious food. Only difference here is that they're trying to flog it to people with money now.
Although however, they did show a little tidbit about magazine ads being tastable. Now that would be a pretty unique advertisement technique.
Astronaut
06-10-2009, 10:33 AM
Until I try it this is just a silly, albeit interesting gimic.
P0K3M0N_MA5T3R
06-10-2009, 12:07 PM
The main problem here is that sure it's paper that tastes like food, but does it actually have nutrients or anything in it? Will it actually fill me up? If not then it's completely pointless.
John Travolta
06-10-2009, 12:15 PM
Disgusting.
So when I print out porn, will the paper taste like cock?
OoooF4LiFe
06-10-2009, 2:35 PM
I certainly hope so.
KaOzWomBaT
06-10-2009, 2:43 PM
If you can find Cock flavored ink.
Lextreme
06-10-2009, 3:36 PM
If you can find Cock flavored ink.
I bet I could find some. :smug:
Stickperson
06-10-2009, 3:39 PM
I think what you're looking for is semen.
I read about this chef in Time (or another major magazine) and he had mentioned some big product he was working on. This is kind of a disappointment to me.
Now, if they just made flavored pills/capsules, that would be it for me.
JohnDoe
06-10-2009, 3:46 PM
If this catches on, you'll all be crying for Canada's awesome supply of trees.
dAmieu
06-10-2009, 3:58 PM
This looks so gross.
El Zilcho
06-10-2009, 4:59 PM
I don't see how this could catch on. I mean you could very well make nutritious paper and slap flavored ink on it, but like several of you have said, people also eat for the textures
But for the food which I don't like the texture of but don't mind the taste...
El Zilcho
06-10-2009, 5:06 PM
Then it's perfect!
As long as you don't mind paper cuts
I_Smell
06-10-2009, 5:11 PM
This is the biggest advancement in food since you could print stuff on cakes!
Ziggy St. Valentine
06-10-2009, 8:02 PM
This is fucking dumb.
KaOzWomBaT
06-10-2009, 9:25 PM
I think its great, it will be a great blow to the fattie population though, they won't be able to get those enormous amonts of calories they so desperatly crave.
Lextreme
06-10-2009, 9:30 PM
I think its great, it will be a great blow to the fattie population though, they won't be able to get those enormous amonts of calories they so desperatly crave.
Yeah, they'll just try to get fat off of paper.
KaOzWomBaT
06-10-2009, 9:32 PM
W.H Smiths will become the new McDonalds, selling enormous quantities of a2 Paper to the morbidly obese for them to print pizzas and burgers out on.
Frobes
06-10-2009, 10:02 PM
I don't see this working. One piece of paper is like 1/100 steak, and I know I can't eat 100 pieces of paper, blegh!
Mague92
06-10-2009, 10:07 PM
At least obesity would no longer be America's #1 problem if this happened.
DoctorButt
06-10-2009, 10:09 PM
Who cares? People in third world countries who are starving don't have printers. Whats really the point of this?
KaOzWomBaT
06-10-2009, 10:16 PM
Who cares about anything? People in third world countries are not a part of this thread. The point is... There isn't one, its a discusion on whether this is the future of food.
Sequence2Destruction
06-10-2009, 10:18 PM
At least obesity would no longer be America's #1 problem if this happened.
Or Australias, seeing as we're fatter then the Americans
KaOzWomBaT
06-10-2009, 10:34 PM
Hah, Fattie, Have another paper cream cake.
Hmm.. No, doesn't have the same ring to it.
KaOz.
Stop trying to make jokes. You always fuck it up and you're not funny.
Ziggy St. Valentine
06-10-2009, 11:26 PM
Who cares? People in third world countries who are starving don't have printers. Whats really the point of this?
Who cares about people in third world countries? Eating paper isn't going to solve anything.
KaOz.
Stop trying to make jokes. You always fuck it up and you're not funny.
Irony, sheer irony.
I don't see the irony.
Are you suggesting that I try to make jokes and always fuck them up, then I'm criticizing someone for doing that?
or because you interpreted that as an attempted joke in itself?
Tweek
06-10-2009, 11:33 PM
It's because you suck
Lextreme
06-10-2009, 11:39 PM
I thought it was.
Ziggy St. Valentine
06-10-2009, 11:48 PM
I don't see the irony.
Are you suggesting that I try to make jokes and always fuck them up, then I'm criticizing someone for doing that?
or because you interpreted that as an attempted joke in itself?
It's because your a fucking retard who can't make a joke for shit, yet are calling someone else out on making a shit joke. The fact of the matter is, you are completely stupid and I'm honestly suprised that you were the fastest sperm in your fathers dick. Seriously, what are you, one step away from legally being allowed to enrol in a "special" school?
KaOzWomBaT
06-10-2009, 11:49 PM
Why does everyone treat other peoples post as an attempt to impress them or make them laugh? ... I don't give a shit i post here for my own amusement so fuck you and what ever shit opinion you might have! Don't poke insults at people over the internet for fuck sake even if you didn't find the post amusing it makes the thread even shitter once you start being an ass.
I seriously just do not know what to say to that........
Ureshii
06-10-2009, 11:53 PM
Take it to Beef.
It's because your a fucking retard who can't make a joke for shit, yet are calling someone else out on making a shit joke. The fact of the matter is, you are completely stupid and I'm honestly suprised that you were the fastest sperm in your fathers dick. Seriously, what are you, one step away from legally being allowed to enrol in a "special" school?
I wasn't actually trying to make a joke? That wasn't a joke, it was a statement of fact...
This thread has seriously de-railed....
Ziggy St. Valentine
06-10-2009, 11:56 PM
I was clearly referring to any time you try to make a joke ever.
KaOzWomBaT
06-11-2009, 12:02 AM
I just thought how they could make porn print outs taste like cock but it requires copious amounts of sperm donation.
javaD
06-11-2009, 12:05 AM
There isn't really a need for Chefs anymore....great...more unimployment >.>
Well...not really. You don't get the same nutrients from a piece of paper than a chicken. So Chefs are still going to be around, unless they make literally food to come out of your computer.
Well...not really. You don't get the same nutrients from a piece of paper than a chicken. So Chefs are still going to be around, unless they make literally food to come out of your computer.
Which I gathered that it WOULD. I think its printed.
Maybe it isn't, in that case, the chefs aren't as NECESSARY...
I was clearly referring to any time you try to make a joke ever.
I don't try to make jokes at all really...
I GENERALLY stay true to the topic...
I COULD start making shit jokes if you want...then you might actually have something to hang shit on me for. Until then, just fuck off...seriously...
Ziggy St. Valentine
06-11-2009, 12:10 AM
Tahl is the new, more butthurt, miimii ITT.
What the fuck?
English please?
KaOzWomBaT
06-11-2009, 12:15 AM
Well if you read on in the article you'll see this guy has done some pretty whacky things already, so i wouldn't be suprised if in the near future he will find some way of pretty much doing that.
Well if you read on in the article you'll see this guy has done some pretty whacky things already, so i wouldn't be suprised if in the near future he will find some way of pretty much doing that.
Wait.....doing what?
KaOzWomBaT
06-11-2009, 12:24 AM
I was answering JavaD... Just at snail pace *Apologies*!
No need to apologize but yes, you were slow, thats why i didn't know what you were talking about....
The Muffin Man
06-11-2009, 1:02 AM
Honestly, I can't fucking wait until I can print me out a cheeseburger. We already have fundamental 3d printing technology so I think that this kind of concept will come soon. Go to mcdonalds.com and order your meal, and it comes right out of your convenient food machine.
Fuck, we will never leave our houses if all these necessities become easily available. I see a very WALL*E esque future ahead of us. I'm not sure if it's good or not.
Well if you read on in the article you'll see this guy has done some pretty whacky things already, so i wouldn't be suprised if in the near future he will find some way of pretty much doing that.
Well, I once saw this Garfield episode (90's series) where John wanted to buy a T.V so he took garfield and odie. There was this T.V that produced whatever you were watching, so I guess if they did that then the chefs would be fucked up. I remember I heard from this papers like about 3 years ago in MSN Today.
Tyler_Legrand
06-11-2009, 1:19 AM
KaOz.
Stop trying to make jokes. You always fuck it up and you're not funny.
tahl.
Stop (http://forums.explosm.net/showthread.php?t=46835&page=4) bringing (http://forums.explosm.net/showthread.php?t=21737) up (http://forums.explosm.net/showthread.php?t=41515&page=4) old threads you fucking motherfucker.
P0K3M0N_MA5T3R
06-11-2009, 4:42 AM
If you can find Cock flavored ink.
Squid semen. Easy really.
KaOzWomBaT
06-11-2009, 6:57 AM
Would you like the job of extracting squid semen Pokemon Master?
Ercoledi
06-11-2009, 6:58 AM
You shouldn't mix business with pleasure.
KaOzWomBaT
06-11-2009, 7:00 AM
I tend to disagree.
P0K3M0N_MA5T3R
06-11-2009, 9:07 AM
Would you like the job of extracting squid semen Pokemon Master?
You make it sound so unnatural. I imagine it something akin to milking a cow, I don't see what the big deal is. But no I don't want the job, the Mexicans can have it.
junglebunny
06-11-2009, 9:10 AM
I'd try it.
I just thought how they could make porn print outs taste like cock but it requires copious amounts of sperm donation.
Jokes already been made asshole.
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