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@cyu@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago

3D-printed carrot does not rely on large areas of land or maintenance costs, can be cheaper

www.aljazeera.com

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3D-printed carrot does not rely on large areas of land or maintenance costs, can be cheaper

www.aljazeera.com

@cyu@sh.itjust.works to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 2 years ago
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A new kind of 3D-printed carrot, in the words of its Qatar-based inventors
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Qatari students aim to make ‘food accessible to people all over the world’ with their 3D printer.
  • @TootSweet@lemmy.world
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    124•2 years ago

    Why would I want my lab-grown carrots to be carrot shaped exactly? As someone who eats quite a lot of carrots, I’d rather have my lab-grown carrots be rectangular-prism shaped for easy stacking.

    • Deceptichum
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      Good luck inserting a rectangular-prism up your butthole.

      • eltimablo
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        38•2 years ago

        Spoken like someone who clearly hasn’t been practicing. Get gud.

        • @idkwhatimdoing@sh.itjust.works
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          19•2 years ago

          “Sounds like a skill issue”

      • @Eylrid@lemmy.world
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        12•2 years ago

        It goes in the square hole

      • snooggums
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        Wombats have joined the chat.

      • @KnowledgeableNip@leminal.space
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        6•2 years ago

        I don’t need luck, I’m a professional.

      • andrew_bidlaw
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        6•2 years ago

        Fits 3d printed ass just fine.

    • @postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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      12•2 years ago

      No need to cut them up, just pop out sticks.

    • @pavnilschanda@lemmy.world
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      11•2 years ago

      I’d say a sense of continuity and familiarity. It’d be weird if you’re suddenly told to eat a cube that can fulfill all of your nutritional needs when you’ve been eating foods of variable shapes for so long.

      • TheLowestStone
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        As someone who has diced, julienned, and sliced thousands of pounds of carrots, let me assure you that most people are not eating carrot shaped carrots.

        • @monkeyseemonkeydong@lemmy.world
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          12•2 years ago

          What, you don’t painstakingly carve mini carrots out of every carrot for dinner? /s

          • @postmateDumbass@lemmy.world
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            6•2 years ago

            We can make fractal carrot structures with the 3d printing

      • @sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works
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        16•2 years ago

        I will eat the nutri-cube and I will like it. I am proud that we’re finally entering the sci-fi era of this dystopia

        • @TootSweet@lemmy.world
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          My vast disappointment for the conspicuous lack of jetpacks cannot be salved save by a home nutri-cube dispenser.

        • @burgersc12@sh.itjust.works
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          4•2 years ago

          I have literally fantasized about the “food cube” that fills nutrional needs for a meal! “What do you want to eat?” will be a question of the past! All you choose to consume is the B̷̛̛̰̮̥͕͓̺̔̽̉̽̃̾ͅã̸̛͍̌̓̊̓̊̆̈́͐̕͝͝r̶̢̺͍̺͓̖͐̂

          • RiikkaTheIcePrincess
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            Soylent or Joylent or whatever is around now isn’t good enough for you? ;P

            • @burgersc12@sh.itjust.works
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              3•2 years ago

              Soylent green?

        • @Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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          We’ve had nutri-cubes for a long time now. These are actually pretty good, IMO.

          • @sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works
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            3•2 years ago

            Look how happy this man is with his government mandated nutrition cube:

            You will not ask for any other nutrition. Thank you fellow citizen, this makes me very happy

    • @MyDearWatson616@lemmy.world
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      9•2 years ago

      Cutting them changes their flavor. They’re not as good when you cut them.

      • @SaintWacko@midwest.social
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        6•2 years ago

        That makes zero sense.
        …it’s absolutely true, though. Carrots are so much better eaten whole

        • @I_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.world
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          6•2 years ago

          They do oxidize a bit when you cut them. They just don’t turn brown like apples and potatoes. It makes them more bitter.

        • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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          1•2 years ago

          Different parts of the carrot taste different. The “core” tastes different to the outer part. So by cutting it up you often change the ratio between those two tastes

    • @coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world
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      7•2 years ago

      Squarerots ™

    • @Rivalarrival@lemmy.today
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      I like the yellow ones.

      I like the yellow ones.

    • @coffeebiscuit@lemmy.world
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      And better packing capabilities. Takes less room, fits more in a box = saving on transportation.

      • @frezik@midwest.social
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        4•2 years ago

        IIRC, freight companies tend to charge based on weight rather than size. That’s why designs for square liquid bottles have never taken off.

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        2•2 years ago

        Easier dicing too

        • @SpiderShoeCult@sopuli.xyz
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          1•2 years ago

          I would like onion shaped carrots, please

    • TheCrispyDud
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      So Chunks from Starfield pretty much?

    • @lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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      1•2 years ago

      I want huge bugs bunny carrots

    • @Num10ck@lemmy.world
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      1•2 years ago

      pringles shaped carrots mmmm

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