Kitchen: a 3D printer to make large dishes

The innovation of the day was born in the industry.

Now it arrives in our kitchens: it is the 3D printer.

And it should allow us to prepare dishes hitherto impossible to achieve at home.

For example: egg-shaped ravioli stuffed with chicken.

Or spinach / broccoli nuggets that look like his child's favorite character (we're sure he'll eat vegetables).

Until now, there were only chefs or professionals who managed to do it.

And again, it is not always obvious.

With culinary 3D printers, this will become accessible to everyone.

But how exactly does it work?

It's really very simple: we put the ingredients in separate tanks.

For example, ravioli dough on one side, the filling on the other.

Then we choose a model.

For example, a stuffed egg.

You press a button.

And the machine will replicate the shape, layer by layer, placing each ingredient in the right place, just like an industrial 3D printer, except it uses food in paste or porridge form.

There were already culinary 3D printers.

But they mostly handled chocolate or sugar for baking.

The new generation can handle up to five different ingredients.

So nothing to do with science fiction machines where we used chemicals to make dishes.

Here, we start with real ingredients.

And is it expensive?

4,000 euros for the Foodini, the most popular machine at the moment.

This is why it is mainly used by chefs to create decorations on plates or to recycle unused vegetable scraps.

But a consumer version comes in around 1,000 euros (the price of a multifunction robot).

So we can finally make Pokémon shaped ravioli at home.