
Cheesecake made with a 3D printer
Jonathan Blutinger / Columbia Engineering
A 3D printing lab has found a way to automate the assembly and cooking of a seven-ingredient cheesecake. As a result, it no longer tastes like a traditional dessert.
“You take a bite and you feel the waves rushing toward you,” says Jonathan Blutinger of Columbia University in New York. “And I think it’s a function of the inner layers of the actual structure.”
Blutinger and his colleagues got seven ingredients from their local grocery store: graham crackers, peanut butter, strawberry jam, Nutella, banana puree, cherry syrup, and…