Ingredient Group Wholesale supply of food ingredients. the main About company Product Catalog Specifications (edit) Online order Contacts the main A chocolate 3D printer has been developed in Russia 14 March, 2016 - 13:40 | editor Samara scientists have developed a prototype 3D printer for printing chocolate confectionery. The press service of the Samara State Aerospace University (SSAU) reported to RIA Novosti about its testing in one of the city's restaurants. The uniqueness of the printer lies in the fact that its developers were able to overcome the main difficulty in printing large chocolate products: the “ink” spreads without time to freeze, therefore the analogs of 3D printers existing in the world are able to produce volumetric figures no more than 3-5 centimeters in size. The Samara printer uses high-quality chocolate without the addition of palm oil as a material for printing. The fact that the idea of creating a chocolate 3D printer originated within the walls of the Samara Aerospace University is not surprising. It is connected with the need to provide cosmonauts with a balanced diet during expeditions. “I would like the astronauts in flight to be able to eat well and at the same time eat not food from tubes, but something that resembles homemade food. The simplest version of a food 3D printer that we can create today is a chocolate one, ”says Vera Panova, a first-year master's student at SSAU. Prototype tests will take place in the restaurant of the Holiday Inn Samara. It is assumed that the use of a chocolate 3D printer will significantly speed up the work of pastry chefs, as well as make the assortment of chocolate decorations more diverse. The developers report that making a complex figurine from several varieties of chocolate on a printer will take no more than 10 minutes. The main area of application of their invention, they see, is not space, but restaurants, coffee shops and confectionery shops in Samara. Also, young scientists and students of the Faculty of Informatics of SSAU are developing specialized software that would allow visitors to Samara coffee houses using a smartphone to choose the ingredients and shape of the chocolate figurines that they would like to print. Work on a prototype of a 3D printer for printing with chocolate in Samara is scheduled to be completed in February 2016. The developers are planning to create a unique 3D printer for caramel printing by next summer. (the article uses materials from the site baker-group.net) Search on the site: Language versions: English version Random photo Login to the system Username: * Password: * Forgot your password? All rights reserved by ingredientgroup (c) | Designed by fa © st