![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
When the Sous-Chef Is an Inkjet
If you don't have a NYT account, then use username: Seagoth password: Seagoth
Excerpt:
HOMARO CANTU'S maki look a lot like the sushi rolls served at other upscale restaurants: pristine, coin-size disks stuffed with lumps of fresh crab and rice and wrapped in shiny nori. They also taste like sushi, deliciously fishy and seaweedy.
But the sushi made by Mr. Cantu, the 28-year-old executive chef at Moto in Chicago, often contains no fish. It is prepared on a Canon i560 inkjet printer rather than a cutting board. He prints images of maki on pieces of edible paper made of soybeans and cornstarch, using organic, food-based inks of his own concoction. He then flavors the back of the paper, which is ordinarily used to put images onto birthday cakes, with powdered soy and seaweed seasonings.
I so want something like this here, at a price that poor bastards like me can afford. It's just like a classic Sci-Fi trope. I don't suppose it would be all that hard to set up something like this; though maintenance and materials would be pricy and labour-intensive. This just looks like it's way too much fun as well. I'm not really interested in the levitation thing, but the idea of printed food, especially in that format, just appeals to my pulp Sci-Fi fan nature. There are some interesting possibilities in the technology as well, which I am sure that a few of you will see right off.
(PZB: Yes, i know, it's a gimmick. But it's a very geeky gimmick, and I'm very geeky.)
Now if only they could come up with a way to download beer.
If you don't have a NYT account, then use username: Seagoth password: Seagoth
Excerpt:
HOMARO CANTU'S maki look a lot like the sushi rolls served at other upscale restaurants: pristine, coin-size disks stuffed with lumps of fresh crab and rice and wrapped in shiny nori. They also taste like sushi, deliciously fishy and seaweedy.
But the sushi made by Mr. Cantu, the 28-year-old executive chef at Moto in Chicago, often contains no fish. It is prepared on a Canon i560 inkjet printer rather than a cutting board. He prints images of maki on pieces of edible paper made of soybeans and cornstarch, using organic, food-based inks of his own concoction. He then flavors the back of the paper, which is ordinarily used to put images onto birthday cakes, with powdered soy and seaweed seasonings.
I so want something like this here, at a price that poor bastards like me can afford. It's just like a classic Sci-Fi trope. I don't suppose it would be all that hard to set up something like this; though maintenance and materials would be pricy and labour-intensive. This just looks like it's way too much fun as well. I'm not really interested in the levitation thing, but the idea of printed food, especially in that format, just appeals to my pulp Sci-Fi fan nature. There are some interesting possibilities in the technology as well, which I am sure that a few of you will see right off.
(PZB: Yes, i know, it's a gimmick. But it's a very geeky gimmick, and I'm very geeky.)
Now if only they could come up with a way to download beer.
