{"id":830,"date":"2013-06-18T16:23:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/3-d-confectionery-printers-the-sugar-lab-choc-edge-and-3-d-open-source-machines\/"},"modified":"2018-05-22T04:16:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T04:16:34","slug":"3-d-confectionery-printers-the-sugar-lab-choc-edge-and-3-d-open-source-machines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pastrysampler.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/3-d-confectionery-printers-the-sugar-lab-choc-edge-and-3-d-open-source-machines.html","title":{"rendered":"3-D Confectionery Printers: The Sugar Lab, Choc Edge, and 3-D Open Source Machines"},"content":{"rendered":"

My husband wants a 3-D printer, so I’ve been scouting the Internet to learn all about it. These machines are amazing, not that we’ll get one tomorrow or anything. A 3-D printer essentially prints out in three dimensional form of whatever you tell it to print. I’ve seen videos for 3-D printers that print out ceramics<\/a> and found those that can print out plastic bracelets and rings<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Digging a little deeper, I wanted to see if there was a food equivalent – specifically, sweets. And surprisingly, there are culinary and food 3-D printers. I came across an article in Design News<\/em> about Sugar Lab<\/a>, a Silver Lake, CA company started by an architectural design husband-and-wife team specializing in custom sugar creations made from granulated sugar. Amazing work! <\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Source: The Sugar Lab.
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UK-based Choc Edge<\/a> also produces a 3-D machine, this time made just for chocolate. The videos for it mainly show intricate flat works, especially useful for creating chocolate portraiture. You can buy it directly from Choc Edge.
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Source: Choc Edge.
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And if you are wanting to know what a 3-D printer looks like in action, the video below shows the production of an open source 3-D food printing machine, demonstrated at the French Culinary Institute. Created by the tech wizards inside Cornell Creative Machines Lab<\/a> at Cornell University, the goal is to eventually create a food printer with the same price tag as an iPad. <\/p>\n

I’m already thinking of all the fun Christmas cookies I could decorate using a machine like this if I had one in my kitchen. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n