Of all of the applications for additive manufacturing, or 3D printing, food tends to be the most universally popular. 

In today’s lesson, Hod Lipson and Melba Kurman, authors of Fabricated: The New World of 3D Printing, show us how digital cuisine not only allows chefs to print interesting looking dishes, it also allows people to cook with great precision. “Using a special food printer, Lipson and Kurman write, “people could create special recipes, calibrated exactly for their body, their weight loss goals, whether they have a health condition, whether they’re trying to be low-carb, for example.”

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