In this weeks video… Zoe explains us what is 3d food printing. She clearly knows how to end a video dropping the real truth!!!! No need for more words she is awesome!
Thank you Zoe for welcoming us at your home during our workshop 🙂
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3d printed meringue taste experience
More videos from our awesome trip in Germany. Always in a good mood this time we jump to try a new type of recipe. 3d printed meringue! How cool that sounds?? test it during the event turns into a super crunchy experience. Aram Avila, Jason Mosbrucker and Luis Rodriguez give you their honest, or at least tired opinion about them. Better take their work or try to taste by yourself during our next workshop!
Daniel Wilkens has a message in a cake
During our awesome time at Messe Erfurt, we got the chance to meet (again for Jason) (first time for Luis) with Daniel Wilkens. Daniel is the mastermind behind message in a cake. A one of of a kind creator that put together a printer to print not just cakes. But cakes that has hidden messages!! Please watch the whole video, and specially last part when Jason cuts the cake and you get to “experience” the surprise from what stays secretly in the cake.
Make sure to visit Daniel’s personal website, and of course the one for the project to.
We wish him the best of the best lucks.
Hope to meet you soon again buddy!
4 inlet multi nozzle test
It has taken way more time than expected, but finally during our workshop in Germany. We managed to put together a demos for out 4 inled (4F) multi nozzle test.
The idea for this nozzle was simple control flavor profiles within the same dish. Kind of this Heston’s Blumenthal recipe. Still far away from this goal, but starting step by step.
Why color instead of flavor? the answer is because using color problems are easier to spot (then solve).
You can read more about it in the instructable.
Hopefully more adventures with it soon 🙂 Stay tune.
This nozzle was one of the many “ongoing” projects after my time at Pier 9!
Tips to start printing with chocolate
Intro
Hi everyone this is Luis Rodriguez from 3DigitalCooks and in this weeks video I will be answering some questions from two awesome 3d food printing entrepenaurs. Cristina and Barbara. The wanted to have more information on how to start printing with chocolate.
Main
Chocolate
Disclaimer!
Printing chocolate is hard, Jason pointed that is the Drama Queen of foods, because it caughts everyones attention but at the same time is not the easiest material out there.
Basic things you need to know.
Before even looking at what machine to buy or build. You need to answer two questions.
What chocolate do you want to print?
There is tons of different types of chocolate, knowing what you want willl help you to choose a better fit technology. Different melting temperatures, viscosities, set times,… all those are good reason to choose different technologies.
A great important distinction is if you want to use a compound chocolate or chocolate with cocoa butter. The second one, more delicate, will require tempering and precaution to avoid blooming.
With this i am not saying that you can not use the same technology for both, but knowing better what you want to print will help you to choose wisely, and ask the right question when buying.
Is also important what do you want the printed chocolate for. Is completely different if you just want to print chocolate for yourself, or if you want to add customized items to your bakery. Parameters like, repeatability, speed and robustness can have a major impact in the technology and the cost of it!!!
Equipment
Once you know what you want to print. is time to look for your printer.
- Budget
There are existing technologies out there that might work for you. From custom build machines to already in the market. I will suggest to whatever technology you choose make sure that you will have a decent customer support. Especially if you are not much interested in playing with the technology. Sometimes is worthy to pay extra but to know that someone has your back.
If budget is an issue make, surely you can build your own, but be aware that depending on your expertise this might be a longer journey.
So what is out there?
ChoCreator, Bocusini, 3d drag, Rokit, …Out the shelf solutions, that range from 3500 dollars to 600. More or less
Links at the of the description.
Learning more
There is tons and tons, of people who has tried this before, in different shapes forms and levels of success. Make sure to surf the web learning from their designs and mistakes! I would not say there is a clear place to learn everything you need about printing chocolate but if you put the pieces together I sure you can make it!
Make sure to check Mark Jones’s interview from ChocEdge, the work form Smart Gastronomy Lab, Fans Hauche, hersheys, … for all that check the links at the end of the post.
I hope this information is helpful write a comment below if you have more doubts about printing chocolate and now now I am just going to enjoy some chocolate.
Links
ChocEdge, Mark Jones interview, Smart Gastronomy Lab they have a cool set of pictures on their facebook page , Hans Fauche, Rokit Chocolate printer or 3D Drag.
And many more chocolatier in our Digital Cooks map.
Unboxing our PancakeBot
New weekly 3d food printing on our Youtube channel. This time Unboxing our new PancakeBot. More video about it coming soon!!
Including our social media pancake experiment!!!!
3Divoprint, printing chocolate in Ukraine
As Jason named chocolate as the Drama Queen of 3d food printing, we are always happy to meet new people working on it. Our new digital cook friends from Ukraine just send us some cool videos printing chocolate!! If you want to learn more about them make sure to check their website.
Their printer, in my opinion, looks like a sturdy custom frame with a nice color interface, and tweaked 3dDrag extruder perhaps.
You can watch more video on their youtube channel here.
Yogurt Bites Recipe
You might have read the recipe for our yogurt bites at Instructables. But this time we bring you the video. Yogurt bites is a recipe made around two main ingredients: Greek Yogurt and cucumber.
Classic, Spicy and sweet. A recipe that was creating during my time at Pier 9, after a legendary talk/inspiration-time with Sherry Wong (You rock).
Classic
Ingredients
- Honey
- Black sesame seeds
- Black salt
- Lemon juice
- Lemon zest
Slice the cucumber. Drip some honey on the center. Print on top of the slice the yogurt pyramid. Drizzle some lemon juice on top. Sprinkle black sesame seeds. Add lemon zest. Finish with some black salt flakes. Done
The balance between the honey and the acidity of the lemon works nicely. The sesame seeds bring a little bit more of texture along the cucumber.
Spicy
Ingredients
- Tabasco
- Dill
- Bacon bits
Slice the cucumber. Place some bacon bits in the center. Print the yogurt pyramid. Using a pipette forced the Tabasco to flow along the pyramid “trenches”. Sprinkle some dill on top. DONE.
This is probably the unexpected one. I like it a lot. Probably my favorite. I hope next time I get to try with crispy bacon bits. PI-CAN-TE!!!
The third and last one is the sweet one.
Sweet
Ingredients
- Blackberry jam
- Mint leaves
- Walnuts
Slice the cucumber. Spread a layer of blackberry jam on top. Place 4 pointy mint leaves on top. The jam will act as a glue, to held the leaves in place. Be creative!!! print the yogurt on top. Place some walnuts around the pyramid. DONE.
This is a sweet bite, well balanced (thanks too the Flavor bible). I think it would be perfect to finish this recipe with some edible gold on top, make it shine!
Let us know if you like 🙂
VI#10 with Choc Edge
Video interviews are back! This time we get the chance to talk with Mark Jones from Choc Edge.If you want to know more about one of the oldest companies in the game. This is your interview. Totally worthy to watch it to learn more about Choc Edge get some insides on how their printers work and enjoy the knowledge from Mark!
Enjoy 🙂
Printing your face on a coffee, (experience)
Another weekly 3d food printing adventure. This time we get to visit the Caface. Coffee spot in Seoul where you can get your picture printed on top of your coffee. I have been following for a while this printers, that rarely hit Europe. So when I found this spot it was a must during my last visit to South Korea.
The coffee was not good, we had to wait a lot too and I personally think it was too expensive. But just the little bit of amusement of experiencing something new and cool make it totally worthy.
Also if you watch this video make sure to share it because if it hits 10 thousand views, I am buying one of this printers to show you how it works!!
Shout out to my awesome wife for starring this video!!!
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