hey guys it's will from Tested I'm at
CES 2014 in the 3d systems booth with
Kyle Ben Hasson we're getting ready to
check out the chef jet and this is the
first commercial 3d printer for food
that I've ever seen
that's exactly right this is the first
of its kind it's a 3d printer for food
so when it comes out the second half of
this year it'll be the first and only
kitchen ready bakery ready 3d printer
for food so like we're all familiar with
how fused deposition printers work they
spit out a little bits of plastic and
sticks to the layer below how does this
construct food you know in a 3d printing
context yeah
it's similar to FDM but it's almost
fundamentally different in another way
so the basic concept is that you spread
a really fine layer of a substrate it
could be clay it could be gypsum powder
it could be sugar in this case and on
top of that really fine layer you paint
with water along the very bottom most
cross-section through an inkjet head
that has water in it so that's just like
an inkjet head that you have in a
desktop 2d printer and sugar and water
kind of like frosting right exactly like
if you've ever left frosting on the bowl
overnight you know that sugar and water
just hardened and they're possible to
clean up we use that to our advantage to
construct really reliably strong 3d
printed objects so then so then what
happens is you print more you start with
the top layer and or the bottom layer
and it sinks down into the end of the
materials actually right so we print a
layer lower it a little bit print water
on top spread another layer put water on
it and lower it a little bit more and
through many thousands of interations
you build up a three-dimensional object
so what's the vertical resolution of the
printer the vertical resolution of the
printer right now is about 6 mils okay
yeah so not quite where you are with
fuse deposition but more a little bit
less resolution and actually because
we're talking about grains of food
particles like a grain of sugar it kind
of erases that steping anyway and the
the desire to get really low resolution
kind of becomes moot at that point so
then so what kind of candy does this
make at the end is it is it kind of like
a
like a sugar candy like rock candy or
something like that yeah it's similar so
at the sugar lab we develop all kinds of
recipes to print with so the first one
and one of the greatest ones that we've
come up with is kind of just a plain
frosting sugar it's a little bit taste
like fondant or marshmallow or cotton
candy a lot of people describe it us and
you can flavor that any way you like we
spray peppermint oil on it frequently to
make an after-dinner candy so like those
little puffy mints to kind of dissolve
in your mouth exactly yeah and they tend
it that's what it feels like when you
eat it it dissolves and then it's a
little chewy at the end so then what
about chocolate you can print chocolate
and this can absolutely 3d print
chocolate so right now this printer is
making the tallest most complex most
detailed chocolate 3d prints in the
world which is really exciting how we do
that is we break the milk chocolate into
its basic constituents which is milk
powder cocoa powder dried milk and sugar
we take all the dry ingredients and we
use that as the substrate that we've
been describing and on top we actually
squirt cocoa butter which gives it that
really rich creamy flavor to construct
milk chocolate it's delicious and we'll
try it in a minute so so then and then
you can also add colors because you're
doing an inkjet print on top exactly
right so and the monochrome machine we
just have one channel and it's clear but
on the larger chef jet pro which is
going to come out at the same time also
commercially certified ready for a
kitchen we have the CM and K channels
and that can paint in thousands hundreds
of thousands of colors instantly right
on the surface of the object really
really cool how long does it take to
make a big I mean these just so
everybody knows all these things behind
us are 3d printed using these these
devices right exactly right we could
take any of those and break off a corner
and chew on it it tastes just like
cotton candy how long does it take to
print something that's the size of like
those like about a soccer ball almost
sure so that would probably take about 5
or 5 and a half hours but actually the
chef jet pro is large enough the one
that's doing color to print two
simultaneously and probably do that in
under six hours so super fast this is a
really really fast kind of 3d printing
technology and you can print things it
would be impossible to use molds or
something like that to construct right
absolutely so if you take a look at this
candy you can see that's interlocked so
now
yeah yeah it absolutely moves so you
have like a whole world of candies and
chocolates that open up because of that
we can do inter allow interlocked shapes
can I taste something absolutely I want
to try the chocolate yeah good
hmm it has a consistency of chocolate it
does yeah it's surprising because you
don't expect that from that kind of
shape but that's great I was expecting
something that kind of um was a little
more structured and it's it's it's it's
melting dissolving my mouth just like
normal chocolate yeah that's really neat
Kyle thank you so much for joining us
one is it's not available how much is
going to cost second half of this year
the monochrome chef jet is under five
thousand dollars and the larger and
full-color chef jet pro is going to be
under ten thousand dollars
fantastic thank you so much we'll have
more from CES 2014 at tested calm we'll
see you guys soon
