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You gotta admit "chicken from a 3-D printer" is pretty funny.
Why? We’ve taken the ink jet printer technology and adapted it in all kinds of ways. You’ve seen them build a house foundation (may even the whole house) out of concrete squirting out of a moving nozzle. If you’ve seen inside a food factory you’ve seen nozzles squirting stuff into cups to make cupcakes or cookies or whatever. They do flooring and tile by squiring colored cement from a moving jet printer.
Jerky is made by squeezing meat paste out through a nozzle and then drying it beyond recognition. Why not have a 3-D chicken printer in the kitchen? You buy the meat paste, and then tell it what to make: “Um, tonight I think I’ll have thighs, and maybe one drumstick. Tomorrow! Wings for the game!”
Imagine being able to select the size of the breast meat: S, M, L. It’s like a pre-Tovala accessory. Eventually they can just deliver the meat paste to the house through tubes, like water is now. They’ll drop a half dozen tubes at least, for milk, for soda, for meat paste, maybe one for pudding or something.
I bet my “Chick 3D” appliance would be a big seller. I must contact Elon.
No. of Recommendations: 1
Jerky is made by squeezing meat paste out through a nozzle and then drying it beyond recognition.
Quite so. The all American favorite, the hot dog, is also extruded food. Using an extruder allows all sorts of waste products, things that people would not touch by themselves, like snouts, ears, and spleens, to be ground up and tossed in the extruder. Michigan used to have a hot dog content law that mandated only skeletal meat be used. In the 70s, the meat packers sued the state, complaining the requirement to use meat in their hot dogs was a "burden". So the Michigan law was repealed.
Steve
