Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers
Abstract Additive manufacturing of food is a method of creating three-dimensional edible products layer-by-layer. While food printers have been in use since 2007, commercial cooking appliances to simultaneously cook and print food layers do not yet exist. A key challenge has been the spatially contr...
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| author | Jonathan David Blutinger Alissa Tsai Erika Storvick Gabriel Seymour Elise Liu Noà Samarelli Shravan Karthik Yorán Meijers Hod Lipson |
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| description | Abstract Additive manufacturing of food is a method of creating three-dimensional edible products layer-by-layer. While food printers have been in use since 2007, commercial cooking appliances to simultaneously cook and print food layers do not yet exist. A key challenge has been the spatially controlled delivery of cooking energy. Here, we explore precision laser cooking which offers precise temporal and spatial control over heat delivery and the ability to cook, broil, cut and otherwise transform food products via customized software-driven patterns, including through packaging. Using chicken as a model food, we combine the cooking capabilities of a blue laser (λ = 445 nm), a near-infrared (NIR) laser (λ = 980 nm), and a mid-infrared (MIR) laser (λ = 10.6 μm) to broil printed chicken and find that IR light browns more efficiently than blue light, NIR light can brown and cook foods through packaging, laser-cooked foods experience about 50% less cooking loss than foods broiled in an oven, and calculate the cooking resolution of a laser to be ~1 mm. Infusing software into the cooking process will enable more creative food design, allow individuals to more precisely customize their meals, disintermediate food supply chains, streamline at-home food production, and generate horizontal markets for this burgeoning industry. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ecaea8898f024e37b910c6a5106894d82022-12-21T20:34:09ZengNature Portfolionpj Science of Food2396-83702021-09-01511910.1038/s41538-021-00107-1Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasersJonathan David Blutinger0Alissa Tsai1Erika Storvick2Gabriel Seymour3Elise Liu4Noà Samarelli5Shravan Karthik6Yorán Meijers7Hod Lipson8Creative Machines Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New YorkCreative Machines Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New YorkCreative Machines Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New YorkCreative Machines Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New YorkCreative Machines Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New YorkCreative Machines Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New YorkCreative Machines Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New YorkCreative Machines Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New YorkCreative Machines Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University in the City of New YorkAbstract Additive manufacturing of food is a method of creating three-dimensional edible products layer-by-layer. While food printers have been in use since 2007, commercial cooking appliances to simultaneously cook and print food layers do not yet exist. A key challenge has been the spatially controlled delivery of cooking energy. Here, we explore precision laser cooking which offers precise temporal and spatial control over heat delivery and the ability to cook, broil, cut and otherwise transform food products via customized software-driven patterns, including through packaging. Using chicken as a model food, we combine the cooking capabilities of a blue laser (λ = 445 nm), a near-infrared (NIR) laser (λ = 980 nm), and a mid-infrared (MIR) laser (λ = 10.6 μm) to broil printed chicken and find that IR light browns more efficiently than blue light, NIR light can brown and cook foods through packaging, laser-cooked foods experience about 50% less cooking loss than foods broiled in an oven, and calculate the cooking resolution of a laser to be ~1 mm. Infusing software into the cooking process will enable more creative food design, allow individuals to more precisely customize their meals, disintermediate food supply chains, streamline at-home food production, and generate horizontal markets for this burgeoning industry.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41538-021-00107-1 |
| spellingShingle | Jonathan David Blutinger Alissa Tsai Erika Storvick Gabriel Seymour Elise Liu Noà Samarelli Shravan Karthik Yorán Meijers Hod Lipson Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers npj Science of Food |
| title | Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers |
| title_full | Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers |
| title_fullStr | Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers |
| title_full_unstemmed | Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers |
| title_short | Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers |
| title_sort | precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41538-021-00107-1 |
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