I love it, would be interested in seeing just what kind of creative designs thatd work, but: I hope it doesnt spoil the taste, (and ideally theyd work out a way to do the opposite, work out a way for it to impart flavour, thatd be amazing.) and unless it does somehow improve the flavour I wouldnt pay more than a few pence more for it. Id rather have tried and tested toppings that look _and_ taste nice, than a modest aesthetic improvement at a much higher price.
Im now kind of hung up on the idea of a flavour printer. I had a look round, plenty of edible ink printing pics, some 3D printers that build up confectionery from scratch, but I cant find even an attempt at printing flavour on to a medium like icing. It doesnt seem particularly impossible given what the other printers can do. Surely Im not the first person to have thought of this?
You know. Very very decorative donuts are overly dense and bready. I like the rare bird of a delicate light as air texture. Fuck Dunkin for life. That's iced bread af. Krispy kreme is closer but still too dense.
I see stuff like this and I think to history and how rich oligarchs would have ostentatious and frivolous decorations on their food and table settings, all to show off how rich they were and fuck you for not being this rich. I just find it interesting that we have this printer that makes pastries that a rich man 100 years ago, would have sold his first born son for just so he could have flowers printed on his donuts. I guess my point is, humans can be creative and stupid at the same time.
I've tasted "edible ink" before. Haven't had one that didn't taste like chemicals yet. I think the problem is getting sugars or sweeteners through the emitter. Colors just taste bad I guess.
I reckon the requirements to be used as printer ink knock taste down the priority list quite a bit. Non-poisonous and printing on a thick layer of sugar to mask taste is probably what they're going with.
It may not be the colour, either. A lot of dyes and flavour extracts are dissolved in propylene glycol, which is terrible for coating the inside of your mouth with a lingering chemical sweetness. Once you can recognized that flavour (a very common adjunct in artificial vanilla extract), you'll notice just how common it is.
Because of the proper sugar instead of HCFS? Yeah, it just tastes better. Tho I only drink the zero-version now. The sodastream version is pretty good, you can add a bit of cherry syrup to make home made code red zero.
The problem isn't the food color but what it is made from. There's a lot of natural food colors on the market extracted from berries and such without a fuckton of chemical stabilizers, but they are usually not as bright and shiny as the artificial ones. The taste doesn't have to be thab bad, if you can live with dull and bland color schemes.
They thought moms would buy more Trix cereal if they switched to natural dyes because it was "healthier" but the result was so horrible it actually caused drops in sales. The new colors were beige, yellowish-beige, brown, brown-red, brownish-almost purple, and blue was cut entirely. It looked like dog food. It lasted less than a year before they brought back the original colors.
Do you know of any of those natural colors and flavorings that can fit through the micrometer sized nozzle in an inkjet printer? Without gumming it up?
Extracting the pigments from natural sources and using whatever dissolvent works best (and doesn't taste like arse) should be good. Question is more how does one plan the print, aiming for a colourful pretty picture but having mostly dull colours to work with. Could run it through a program, but it's also a matter of knowing what would still look good cos you can't just take a picture and run it through.
twsx
Seems like a lot of effort for something that I'm gonna indictriminately shove into my fat face in under 2 seconds.
rbudrick
Fuck you, low on cyan.
daranthered
Dear Bakers, please stop making beautiful food I feel bad to eat.
Clayman8
*urge to print them all with Goatse intensifies*
madeejit
"Hi, Could I get a Boston Creme and a Pink Sprinkles please"..."Eh, sorry, we're out of magenta..."
mechecat19423000
Que hermosas 😃🤗
JimmyDalai
Now without palm oil or heavy metals!!
DarkBusterBaron
But do they taste good? You could fucking throw starry night on there but it doesn't mean jack if it tastes like shit. It's food not a canvas.
TigerThong
pretty, but would prefer tastes of visual decoration
cousteau
When you can't have dessert because your food synthesizer is out of cyan icing.
somerandomusernamebecauseididntlikemyoldone
I prefer to eat food, but you do you
JRaven419
PC Load Doughnut
Kerb755
Clear Strawberry Jam in Tray 1
jwillustrat
Kerb755
please remove the strawberry jam in tray 1
iveson
Print… Print your dick in it.
CaptainSkyhawk
yum, ten dollar doughnuts that taste of technically edible ink
origosaved
...so you can get fatter and spend more money?
NachoIskerka
For when you look at wallpaper and go "what if I could eat this?"
bobimg
I love it, would be interested in seeing just what kind of creative designs thatd work, but: I hope it doesnt spoil the taste, (and ideally theyd work out a way to do the opposite, work out a way for it to impart flavour, thatd be amazing.) and unless it does somehow improve the flavour I wouldnt pay more than a few pence more for it. Id rather have tried and tested toppings that look _and_ taste nice, than a modest aesthetic improvement at a much higher price.
bobimg
Im now kind of hung up on the idea of a flavour printer. I had a look round, plenty of edible ink printing pics, some 3D printers that build up confectionery from scratch, but I cant find even an attempt at printing flavour on to a medium like icing. It doesnt seem particularly impossible given what the other printers can do. Surely Im not the first person to have thought of this?
autodidacticcortex
Idk, it makes the donuts seem less like food.
cfry23
They can’t fool me so easily
FallingStar7669
Yeah, it's a novelty; that's all. And hey, there must be a market for it, y'know?
SnailsAgainstTungstenSpheres
Finally, something to keep my grandma from eating duvet covers.
SirMisterDudeBroPhD
You know. Very very decorative donuts are overly dense and bready. I like the rare bird of a delicate light as air texture. Fuck Dunkin for life. That's iced bread af. Krispy kreme is closer but still too dense.
PrfctDrk
https://imgur.com/NgxY6oq
sherlockhooves
I see stuff like this and I think to history and how rich oligarchs would have ostentatious and frivolous decorations on their food and table settings, all to show off how rich they were and fuck you for not being this rich. I just find it interesting that we have this printer that makes pastries that a rich man 100 years ago, would have sold his first born son for just so he could have flowers printed on his donuts. I guess my point is, humans can be creative and stupid at the same time.
thatwoodguy
I don't really need Artisan Donuts costing more than $6 each thank you.
gelipanda
What happens when you run out of Cyan?
VulpisFoxfire
The Riven remake gets pushed back further...
tarataqa
ImgurNeedsMoreSmartass
Now draw a pair of butt ch... nevermind
Sakabashira
Goatse
SteelKnight
Rust brown's ring donuts and from gta San andreas
JoeT85
no no, finish this thought. Please. @imgurneedsmoresmartass , you have the floor
pullingsixty
Donuts for Panem.
MisterLemons
May the diabeetus be ever in your favorp
Nivesnow
Doughnuts by 70yo widows home decor
HandoB4Javert
WhyDontYouMakeMe
Popular at the retirement home
nobodyspecial995
I've tasted "edible ink" before. Haven't had one that didn't taste like chemicals yet. I think the problem is getting sugars or sweeteners through the emitter. Colors just taste bad I guess.
apLundell
In theory, if you can taste it then they used way too much.
Frogblender
I reckon the requirements to be used as printer ink knock taste down the priority list quite a bit. Non-poisonous and printing on a thick layer of sugar to mask taste is probably what they're going with.
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
It may not be the colour, either. A lot of dyes and flavour extracts are dissolved in propylene glycol, which is terrible for coating the inside of your mouth with a lingering chemical sweetness. Once you can recognized that flavour (a very common adjunct in artificial vanilla extract), you'll notice just how common it is.
cfry23
Probably because it’s chemicals
nobodyspecial995
Everything is chemicals, oxygen is a chemical, hydrogen is chemical, guess what they make?
khora
How about every candy ever made?
interesseret
Where the dye is mixed with the other ingredients? Yeah, that won't give you the same flavour.
SomeDetroitGuy
Every candy ever made has sweeteners or sugar added to it.
khora
Totally different than a donut then.
LooseyGooseyBrett
Food coloring never really has a flavor to me
bot1010011010
the red in red velvet cake tastes kinda nasty and bitter to me
mikeatike
Mt Dew isnt Mt Dew without. Yellow #5, even code red has it.
ProfessorVanDiggenSagg
Bizarrely enough, the european version is closer to the original version of Mt Dew. So Mt Dew without is more Mt Dew than Mt Dew.
mikeatike
Because of the proper sugar instead of HCFS? Yeah, it just tastes better. Tho I only drink the zero-version now. The sodastream version is pretty good, you can add a bit of cherry syrup to make home made code red zero.
ProfessorVanDiggenSagg
The problem isn't the food color but what it is made from. There's a lot of natural food colors on the market extracted from berries and such without a fuckton of chemical stabilizers, but they are usually not as bright and shiny as the artificial ones. The taste doesn't have to be thab bad, if you can live with dull and bland color schemes.
IslaNublar
They thought moms would buy more Trix cereal if they switched to natural dyes because it was "healthier" but the result was so horrible it actually caused drops in sales. The new colors were beige, yellowish-beige, brown, brown-red, brownish-almost purple, and blue was cut entirely. It looked like dog food. It lasted less than a year before they brought back the original colors.
nobodyspecial995
Do you know of any of those natural colors and flavorings that can fit through the micrometer sized nozzle in an inkjet printer? Without gumming it up?
InnocentValley
Extracting the pigments from natural sources and using whatever dissolvent works best (and doesn't taste like arse) should be good. Question is more how does one plan the print, aiming for a colourful pretty picture but having mostly dull colours to work with. Could run it through a program, but it's also a matter of knowing what would still look good cos you can't just take a picture and run it through.
FetaForMoses
Yes I can live with bland color schemes. No wait. I can live with food that’s not been printed on. At all.
KuroFluff
I'll print with a whipped cream can. It only prints whipped cream though.