What if 3D printing reinvented French pastry? At VivaTech, a promising machine already on the market delighted the most greedy visitors.
La Pâtisserie Numérique, a Parisian start-up founded in 2019, has developed and built a 3D food printer to make cakes, without additives, from French pastry recipes. This innovation has gone far beyond the concept stage and is presented to us by its founder Marine Coré Baillais at VivaTech. She has been working in the 3D printing sector since 2011. She had already created a first company in the field, Sculpteo, which has since been sold to the German group BASF. Make room for gluttony.
The tasty mix of 3D printing and baking
To found La Pâtisserie Numérique, Marine Coré Baillais had to set foot in the dish and pass her CAP Pâtisserie. An adventure ” related to my cooking experience and my 3D printing experience she tells us. But how does his invention work?
By definition, a cake is the meeting of solid and liquid elements. In the machine, the liquid elements are positioned in a tank located on the right, conveyed by the printing head to the interior of the flour. ” We then come to agglomerate the flour with the liquid elements, exactly like when we make a cake, but it is done directly by the printer following the 3D path “. It is this process that makes it possible to dispense with additives.
Parts made by the machine can take on amazing shapes that are difficult to achieve by hand. This appeals to chefs who can request it, those who constantly seek to reinvent themselves in the midst of the classics of French pastry. And the system also works for concocting savory products.
Machines already deployed in France and Belgium
The story is beautiful for La Pâtisserie Numérique, already present at VivaTech last year, but with only a model at the time. Since then, the start-up has produced several machines in Louviers, near Normandy. Some are now deployed in France, others in Belgium.
The machine puts on its apron in bakeries, restaurants and at the Grand Marché MIN (market of national interest) in Toulouse, where the company is working on food waste. The device is built in the workshops of La Pâtisserie Numérique, which does not yet have an industrial line.
” Today, we are at VivaTech with the objective of raising funds to accelerate. Because if we have demand, we must also be able to supply », adds Marine Coré Baillais. In any case, we tested (or rather “tasted”) a passion fruit flower on the spot, and we are already asking for more. Bluffing!
As a reminder, this is not the first time that a 3D printer has given rise to desserts, we told you about it a few months ago.
Source: Clubic
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