{"id":127969,"date":"2021-09-22T15:24:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-22T22:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/lasers-could-bring-the-precision-of-3d-printing-to-the-cooking-of-food"},"modified":"2021-09-22T15:24:03","modified_gmt":"2021-09-22T22:24:03","slug":"lasers-could-bring-the-precision-of-3d-printing-to-the-cooking-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/09\/lasers-could-bring-the-precision-of-3d-printing-to-the-cooking-of-food","title":{"rendered":"Lasers could bring the precision of 3D printing to the cooking of food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jct3f92rIOE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even though it\u2019s now possible to <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/newatlas.com\/3d-printed-pizza-astronauts\/30685\/\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">3D-print foods<\/a> into millimeter-precise shapes and forms, cooking those printed foods is still a fairly inexact process. Scientists are trying to change that, by using lasers to cook foods to specific optimized standards.<\/p>\n<p>Led by PhD student Jonathan Blutinger, a team at Columbia University started by pureeing raw chicken then extruding it through the nozzle of a 3D food printer, creating samples measuring 3 mm thick by about one square inch (645 sq mm) in area. They then precisely heated that chicken via pulses of either blue or near-infrared laser light, at wavelengths of 445 nanometers for the former and either 980 nanometers or 10.6 micrometers for the latter.<\/p>\n<p>The laser moved across the meat in various <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trochoid\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">trochoidal<\/a> spiral patterns, with cooking times ranging from five to 14 minutes. An infrared camera continuously measured the surface temperature of the chicken, while eight embedded <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thermistor\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\">thermistors<\/a> monitored its internal temperature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though it\u2019s now possible to 3D-print foods into millimeter-precise shapes and forms, cooking those printed foods is still a fairly inexact process. Scientists are trying to change that, by using lasers to cook foods to specific optimized standards. Led by PhD student Jonathan Blutinger, a team at Columbia University started by pureeing raw chicken [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}