Feel like eating a hamburger? Or would you rather have a pizza? No problem, the 3D food printer will create anything you want, literally¹ at the click of a button.

你想要吃个汉堡包?还是想来份匹萨饼?都没问题，只需按下按钮，3D食物打印机就可以做出任何你想要的美味。

Scientists at Cornell University in New York are developing a commercially viable² 3D food printer, which uses raw food "inks" that are fed into the printer and once you load the recipe and press the button, voila!

纽约康奈尔大学的科学家们正研发一款可商用的3D食物打印机，它以食物原料作"墨水"。待原料放人打印机内，用户只要输入食谱，按下按钮，瞧，如此简单，大功告成!

An electronic blueprint³ states exactly what materials go where and are drawn⁴ up using traditional engineering computer-aided design (CAD) software.

科学家拟定的"电子图纸"详细说明了食物原料的调配方法，该图纸是用传统工程学中的计算机辅助设计(CAD)软件绘制而成的。

"FabApps would allow you to tweak your food's taste, texture⁵ and other properties. Maybe you really love biscuits, but want them extra flaky. You would change the slider and the recipe and the instructions would adjust accordingly," the Daily Mail quoted Dr. Jeffrey lan Lipton as saying.

英国《每日邮报》援引杰弗里·伊恩·利普顿的话说使用FahApps食物打印机，你可以调整食物的味道、口感和其他特性。或许你很爱吃饼干，但又希望它们更薄，这时你可以拖动控制饼干厚度的滑块，调整食谱，打印食物的指令也就随之更改了。"

So anything that can be loaded into syringes-liquid cheese,chocolate and cake batter-can be printed out! So far, they have had some success creating cookies, cake and "designer domes⁶" made of turkey meat.

因此，任何可以被装入灌注器的食物——比如液体奶醋、巧克力和煎饼——都可以被打印出来。迄今为止，科学家已成功"打印"咄出了饼干、蛋糕以及火鸡肉制作的"特制肉塔"

Homaro Cantu, chef at Chicago's Moto, has "printed sushi using an ink jet printer".

芝加哥Moto餐厅的大厨荷马洛.坎图已经"用食物打印机做出了寿司"。

"You can imagine a 3D printer making homemade apple pie without the need for farming the apples, fertilising, transporting, refrigerating, packaging, fabricating, cooking, serving and the need for all of the materials in these processes like cars, trucks, pans, coolers， etc., said Cantu.

坎图说你可以设想一下，使用3D食物打印机自制苹果派，而无须种苹果、施肥、运输、冷藏、包装、加工、烹饪、上菜，而且不必使用相应的这些生产过程中会用到的汽车、卡车、平底锅、冷藏器等工具。"

"3D printing will do for food what e-mail and instant messaging did for communication."

"3D食物打印机可以方便地制作食物，就如同电邮和即时通讯工具可以使人们快捷地交流沟通一样。"