Now You're Cooking With Inkjets

[Tuckerfan]

Dinner so good, you’ll eat the menu!

“You can make an ink-jet printer do just about anything,” says Cantu, who is head chef at the Moto restaurant in Chicago, US, and a keen advocate of the high-tech kitchen. The printer’s cartridges are loaded with fruit and vegetable concoctions instead of ink, and the paper tray contains edible sheets of soybean and potato starch. Cantu then prints out tasty versions of images he has downloaded from the web.

He even wants to use lasers to cook steaks!

And Cantu’s ideas go much further. He plans to cook steak by using a hand-held laser to sear the centre until it is well done while leaving the outside medium rare, or raw. He even envisages using the laser to bake bread - with a crust inside the loaf.

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[Uvula_Donor]

@Tuckerfan

He even wants to use lasers to cook steaks!

I don’t understand how a laser will cook the inside of a steak without cooking the outside. Lasers don’t pass through opaque substances to stop in the middle. Maybe he’s going to use some kind of focused microwave or something.

[Tuckerfan]

@Uvula Donor

I don’t understand how a laser will cook the inside of a steak without cooking the outside. Lasers don’t pass through opaque substances to stop in the middle. Maybe he’s going to use some kind of focused microwave or something.

I think he’s going to use a 2000’s style “steak ray” instead of a laser.

[Little_Bird]

Well, I’ve seen those little clear plastic cubes with bubble designs at the mall. They shine two lazers at eachother at a 90[sup]o[/sup] angle and make the bubble in the middle. Maybe that’s how he plans to do it?