HM 351: Culinary 3D printing (1 credit hour)
Prerequisites: HM 350 (Culinary Arts)
3D Printing is a new and emerging technology with many capabilities. This course will focus on a new capability of 3D printing: printing with food. If JMU were to offer this course, it would further student’s capabilities and skills in the culinary arts world while also bringing attention to the JMU’s diverse curriculum.
The culinary world is expanding and becoming more technologically advanced, making 3D printing an essential skill to those who will be seeking jobs in this field. This would be an important interactive elective for HM Majors because it would teach both pastry design and 3D printing those designs.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/may/30/3d-printing-sugar-icing-cake
Course Description: This course is a one credit elective course intended for HM majors who have an interest in advancing their culinary skills. The course provides students an opportunity to create new techniques to decorate pastries and desserts. The focus of this course will be on pastry and dessert decoration, which will expose students to new methods of design.
Course Objectives: Student’s success will be determined according to the following abilities:
- Students are familiar with software used and are able to create their own 3D printed models.
- Students are aware of and comply with safety rules while working with machines in the class
- Students are able to demonstrate and explain their designs/projects each week to the class and instructor
- Students complete the final project, which is printing a confection with multiple materials/substances.
Here is an example of what this food printing class could offer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQni3wb0tyM
Hopefully, 3D printing food will be much more advanced in the future, making it possible for simple pastry decorating to be available at a much lower cost. Students at JMU interested in the culinary arts would be able to design their own eatible decorations and eventually print and test them.
Potential activities/projects:
-Students can learn how to create designs that could later be printed in icing or sugar to decorate and/or create confectionary art using state of the art food printers (ChefJet being one possibility) and/or specialized extruders for 3D printers.
Ex: Icing a cookie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sy3Oy5mmMiA
Decorating a cake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Za3Z7b-dpZQ
Why not frost an oreo?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuYk8qv_Lxc
Create edible sugar sculptures, such as wedding cake toppers, cupcake decorations, or even a man’s head.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHf9jWnBH-I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo0HMDzzfFY (Uses Maya!)
Printing with chocolate
Programs at other Universities (Cornell, University of Waterloo, and others) are already experimenting with and working on developments in the world of 3D food.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQni3wb0tyM
Companies like Hershey’s are looking to implement 3D printing into their confectionary production processes.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/101342020
Resorts, restaurants, bakeries and many other businesses are seeking employees who are knowledgeable in regards to this new technology. Hospitality management students could absolutely benefit from this course in regards to preparing for their future careers.
- There could be a chapter which covers designing chocolate. Students would be able (if desired) to download the special software to their personal computers and complete the assignment at home or design them in a JMU computer. This assignment would be a trial/error assignment where designs would later be tested in class.
Here’s an example of a chocolate printer and how it could be used in the classroom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIFi8but3Vw
Rob, Hannah, Fabi
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