We found a story that has taken the printer industry to a whole new level — PRINTING FOOD!

In the past we have talked about being able to print organs, the use of Epson printers at the Oscars, and even computers being used to make life and death decisions. Now we can add restaurant quality food to the list. Organ printing is still #1 in my book, but this is pretty cool, and probably a very close second.

Chicago’s Moto Restaurant prints meals on edible paper, freezes them in liquid nitrogen, and then bakes them in polymer ovens. The restaurant and chef, Homaro Cantu, used to use a Canon ip560 inkjet printer to print their edible menus and edible pictures of sushi (pictures of sushi on starch paper). The Canon printer has since been replaced by Cantu’s self built food transmogrifier, which utilizes the edible paper and organic, edible ink.

No word on the taste of such food, but we read that customers are willing to pay $165 (including wine) for the paper meal.