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Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers

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 del...

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Autores principales: Blutinger, Jonathan David, Tsai, Alissa, Storvick, Erika, Seymour, Gabriel, Liu, Elise, Samarelli, Noà, Karthik, Shravan, Meijers, Yorán, Lipson, Hod
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8410778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34471119
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41538-021-00107-1
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author Blutinger, Jonathan David
Tsai, Alissa
Storvick, Erika
Seymour, Gabriel
Liu, Elise
Samarelli, Noà
Karthik, Shravan
Meijers, Yorán
Lipson, Hod
author_facet Blutinger, Jonathan David
Tsai, Alissa
Storvick, Erika
Seymour, Gabriel
Liu, Elise
Samarelli, Noà
Karthik, Shravan
Meijers, Yorán
Lipson, Hod
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description 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 pubmed-84107782021-09-22 Precision cooking for printed foods via multiwavelength lasers Blutinger, Jonathan David Tsai, Alissa Storvick, Erika Seymour, Gabriel Liu, Elise Samarelli, Noà Karthik, Shravan Meijers, Yorán Lipson, Hod NPJ Sci Food Article 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. Nature Publishing Group UK 2021-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC8410778/ /pubmed/34471119 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41538-021-00107-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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