Science food: Sugar polyhedra

3D printing was proposed around 1981 when the first patent for a printer of this type was registered in Japan, but it was not until 1984 when the American inventor Charles Hull made the concept of three-dimensional printing a reality.

3D printing, however, did not become popular until the 21st century. Today, a 3D printer can print impressive models using plastic filaments deposited by layers.

However, can a 3D-printer print food?

The answer is yes.

The idea is this: think in using food, say sugar and dyes for example, instead of using plastic filaments as printing material.

Well, that is the idea that the American architects Kyle and Liz von Hasseln considered. They found Sugar Lab that today prints “3D food” consisting of beautiful and impressive sugar sculptures.

What do you think to taste a good coffee, no longer with the boring sugar cubes, but with all kinds of geometric figures?

In this case, people could ask you, how many sugar polyhedrons do you like?