hey guys it's will from Tested I'm at CES 2014 in the 3d systems booth with
Kyle Ben Hasson we're getting ready to check out the chef jet and this is the
first commercial 3d printer for food that I've ever seen
that's exactly right this is the first of its kind it's a 3d printer for food
so when it comes out the second half of this year it'll be the first and only
kitchen ready bakery ready 3d printer for food so like we're all familiar with
how fused deposition printers work they spit out a little bits of plastic and
sticks to the layer below how does this construct food you know in a 3d printing
context yeah it's similar to FDM but it's almost
fundamentally different in another way so the basic concept is that you spread
a really fine layer of a substrate it could be clay it could be gypsum powder
it could be sugar in this case and on top of that really fine layer you paint
with water along the very bottom most cross-section through an inkjet head
that has water in it so that's just like an inkjet head that you have in a
desktop 2d printer and sugar and water kind of like frosting right exactly like
if you've ever left frosting on the bowl overnight you know that sugar and water
just hardened and they're possible to clean up we use that to our advantage to
construct really reliably strong 3d printed objects so then so then what
happens is you print more you start with the top layer and or the bottom layer
and it sinks down into the end of the materials actually right so we print a
layer lower it a little bit print water on top spread another layer put water on
it and lower it a little bit more and through many thousands of interations
you build up a three-dimensional object so what's the vertical resolution of the
printer the vertical resolution of the printer right now is about 6 mils okay
yeah so not quite where you are with fuse deposition but more a little bit
less resolution and actually because we're talking about grains of food
particles like a grain of sugar it kind of erases that steping anyway and the
the desire to get really low resolution kind of becomes moot at that point so
then so what kind of candy does this make at the end is it is it kind of like
a like a sugar candy like rock candy or
something like that yeah it's similar so at the sugar lab we develop all kinds of
recipes to print with so the first one and one of the greatest ones that we've
come up with is kind of just a plain frosting sugar it's a little bit taste
like fondant or marshmallow or cotton candy a lot of people describe it us and
you can flavor that any way you like we spray peppermint oil on it frequently to
make an after-dinner candy so like those little puffy mints to kind of dissolve
in your mouth exactly yeah and they tend it that's what it feels like when you
eat it it dissolves and then it's a little chewy at the end so then what
about chocolate you can print chocolate and this can absolutely 3d print
chocolate so right now this printer is making the tallest most complex most
detailed chocolate 3d prints in the world which is really exciting how we do
that is we break the milk chocolate into its basic constituents which is milk
powder cocoa powder dried milk and sugar we take all the dry ingredients and we
use that as the substrate that we've been describing and on top we actually
squirt cocoa butter which gives it that really rich creamy flavor to construct
milk chocolate it's delicious and we'll try it in a minute so so then and then
you can also add colors because you're doing an inkjet print on top exactly
right so and the monochrome machine we just have one channel and it's clear but
on the larger chef jet pro which is going to come out at the same time also
commercially certified ready for a kitchen we have the CM and K channels
and that can paint in thousands hundreds of thousands of colors instantly right
on the surface of the object really really cool how long does it take to
make a big I mean these just so everybody knows all these things behind
us are 3d printed using these these devices right exactly right we could
take any of those and break off a corner and chew on it it tastes just like
cotton candy how long does it take to print something that's the size of like
those like about a soccer ball almost sure so that would probably take about 5
or 5 and a half hours but actually the chef jet pro is large enough the one
that's doing color to print two simultaneously and probably do that in
under six hours so super fast this is a really really fast kind of 3d printing
technology and you can print things it would be impossible to use molds or
something like that to construct right absolutely so if you take a look at this
candy you can see that's interlocked so now
yeah yeah it absolutely moves so you have like a whole world of candies and
chocolates that open up because of that we can do inter allow interlocked shapes
can I taste something absolutely I want to try the chocolate yeah good
hmm it has a consistency of chocolate it does yeah it's surprising because you
don't expect that from that kind of shape but that's great I was expecting
something that kind of um was a little more structured and it's it's it's it's
melting dissolving my mouth just like normal chocolate yeah that's really neat
Kyle thank you so much for joining us one is it's not available how much is
going to cost second half of this year the monochrome chef jet is under five
thousand dollars and the larger and full-color chef jet pro is going to be
under ten thousand dollars fantastic thank you so much we'll have
more from CES 2014 at tested calm we'll see you guys soon