Printer produces personalised 3D chocolate | Science Blog
Manufacturing and retail could get a boost from a newly-developed 3D chocolate printer.
In the long term the technology could be used by customers to design many different products themselves – tailor-made to their needs and preferences.
The project is being led by the University of Exeter in collaboration with the Brunel University and software developer Delcam. It is funded as part of the Research Council UK Cross-Research Council Digital Economy Programme and is managed by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) on behalf of ESRC, AHRC and MRC.
3D printing is a technology where a three-dimensional object is created by building up successive layers of material. The technology is already used in industry to produce plastic and metal products, but this is the first time the principles have been applied to chocolate.
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Seems to me like mechanizing the process of tempering and shaping chocolate would make it easier, since machines can probably be more consistently accurate than humans in this application (like many others). Unless they decide to build a chocolate army and take over the world. Which, I guess, wouldn't suck since we could just eat our opponents and they'd prob'ly be really creamy and yummy, not grainy at all. :)
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