Food 'printer' saves time
食物'打印機'省時又省力

Scientists at Cornell University are building a 3-D food printer as part of the bigger Fab@home project, which they hope one day will be as commonplace as the microwave oven, BBC reported. Just pop the raw food "inks" in the top, load the recipe - and the machine will do the rest. The goal is to blow the lid off cooking as we know it and change the future of food production. People lacking even basic culinary skills could download recipe files from master chefs or print out nutrition-packed dishes recommended by their doctors.(See photo)

據英國廣播公司報道，美國康奈爾大學的研究人員正在研制一種3D食物"打印機"，只需將食材跟打印機墨汁似的放在上面，然后輸入菜譜，接下來的一切就不用你操心啦。食物"打印機"只是康奈爾大學Fab@home研發項目的一部分，研究人員希望有朝一日它能跟微波爐一樣在日常生活中得到普及。該機器的出現將使烹飪不再神秘，并為食物制作帶來嶄新的未來。即使連基本廚藝都不過關的人也可以下載大廚的食譜，或者"打印"出醫生所推薦的營養美食。(見圖)

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