The Mycusini 2.0 food 3D printer is the latest from German startup Print2Taste. When it originally launched its first version on Kickstarter in 2019, it surpassed its funding goal. More significantly, however, it’s still the cheapest model on the market. Version 2.0 is now available for purchase on its website.

The Mycusini 2.0 is compact enough to fit on a kitchen countertop or be stored in a cupboard. It uses a stainless steel cartridge that’s refilled with chocolate provided by the manufacturer. The new model comes in 5 colors with rounded corners and a removable platform for easy cleaning. The template library has been updated as well, with more than 1,000 objects as well as free access to the Mycusini Club to help you easily create your own designs.

Mycusini 2.0 3D Chocolate Printer

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A special case, in that it comes in… well, a case! The Focus by byFlow is a portable food 3D printer that uses user-filled syringes to extrude designs onto a static plate.

In use in professional kitchens and 3D printing-focused pop-up restaurants, the Focus is a slick machine that allows chefs, patissiers, chocolatiers, and others to customize their wares, printing edible objects in forms not possible by hand or mold.

With the purchase of the Focus, you get a 3-year license of byFlow Studio, design software for creating and sharing your food designs with fellow users. Along with several recipes for 3D printable food, byFlow Studio displays a collection of more than 100 different shapes.

A few accessories are available from byFlow, such as additional print heads, nozzles, and extra cartridges. The not-so-great news is that they only deliver in Europe, for ordering elsewhere you must contact their sales support team.

After more than a decade of developing 3D printers, FelixPrinters has finally entered the food printing market. 

Three versions of their 3D food printer are available under their spin-off company Felix Food. All models print numerous kinds of pastes, from vegetable purees to doughs to chocolates, each with precision and speed. Felix Food printers enable beautiful food creations, whether in your home, in a restaurant, or as a research tool.

The Felix Single, with one nozzle, prints a single material; the Felix Twin has two nozzles for printing the same material at double the speed; and the Felix Switch also with two nozzles, prints two different materials simultaneously. These mid-range priced printers are designed for professionals and gastronomes wanting to raise their level of food creations to the next level and are available for purchase from the company website.

Capable of handling more than just thick pastes, the Foodini – thanks to a generous array of wide nozzle sizes and wide cartridges – can even print out chunky burgers laced with cranberries, walnuts, and the like.

Designed with the goal of promoting healthy eating and the inventive (and convenient) forming of all-natural foodstuffs, the Foodini sees use in rehabilitation centers and professional kitchens alike.

Rather than a rectangular plate, the Foodini has a round build plate made of Pyrex glass – the same oven-proof glass usually found in microwave dishes. The printing chamber is temperature-controlled and the printer can contain up to five food-grade stainless steel capsules that are automatically exchanged.

The washable parts are all dishwasher safe too. Great idea!

With the arrival of the Patiss3 in 2022, chefs can now use their own recipes without having to make compromises for extrude-ability. The printer by Paris-based The Digital Patisserie (La Patisserie Numerique) uses a powder-based process that enables you to work with French classic pastry recipes without any additives, says Marine Coré Baillais, the company’s founder. Baillais left her position as deputy CEO of 3D printing service bureau Sculpteo in 2019 to pursue her passion of the culinary arts.

Patiss3 can work with a wide range of edible raw materials. However, only 25 machines are currently in production. Aimed at professionals, the printer can be rented for €500 a month only in Europe.

Possibly the most polished and “plug-and-play” food printer to feature in this roundup, the Procusini features an effortless cartridge system for its feedstock. This means that the contact between food and the machine itself is limited to the nozzle, which is removable and dishwasher-safe. Simple!

Specially formulated food cartridges are available for the Procusini, including marzipan and four different types of chocolate (dark, white, pink, and blue). During printing, these refill cartridges can be heated up to 60 °C.

The newer 5.0 version boasts an LCD display for the faster and simpler operation often required in professional kitchens. A dual extrusion machine is also available, allowing for the simultaneous printing of two edible materials.

With the purchase of a Procusini printer, the user receives total access to their online platform – the Procusini Club. It’s said to have thousands of ready-to-print templates, objects, text, and hollow models. The platform also provides video tutorials and tips for getting the most out of this incredible printer.

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Positioned as a chocolate 3D printer, the Sweetin by China-based Wiiboox is actually more of a general food printer, allowing for the extrusion of various edibles from its thick paste extruder. Think jams, mashed potato, bean pastes and, naturally, chocolate.

Wiiboox makes other types of professional 3D printers for manufacturing so they know their way around the technology. A touchscreen interface makes for easy operation, and Wiiboox claims anyone that knows how to use a computer can operate the Sweetin. It features an auto-leveling mechanism, freeing the user of tedious bed-leveling operations.

Wiiboox keeps a huge amount of ready-to-print chocolate models available for download. There’s also their web-based design software that focuses on text, pictures, and simple model design.

Lincsolutionb Inc., founded in Korea in 2015, started developing 3D food printers in 2018, but offer a wide range of other types of 3D printers. The MonoPure Food 3D printer boasts multiple extruder nozzles and is simple to clean with its built-in UV-based sterilization mechanism and disposable nozzles. It actually doubles as a bio-printer capable of extruding bio-gels for cultivating cells and biomatter in labs and universities.

The MonoPure Food can handle thicker materials than most because of its special nozzle with an internal rotative screw that can push out material with consistent accuracy. You can print with two materials at a time and swap out material cartridges mid print to add more materials to your creation.  At 80kg, this machine is definitely one of the heavier printers out there, but in exchange, it allows for one of the largest build sizes (300 x 300 x 50 mm) available on the market.

Cocoa Press has now started taking reservations for its new DIY 3D chocolate printer to be shipped out this fall. The pro version is to be released in January 2024.

This easy-to-use printer differs from other chocolate printers in that it heats all of the chocolate at once before being fed into the machine for printing. When using the cartridges provided by the company, builds are limited to 70g of chocolate, although Cocoa Press is working on methods to allow for reloading during the printing process. Using your own chocolate is also possible, but the company explains some experimentation may be needed to get the desired results. The printer uses the PrusaSlicer.

The only difference between the DIY kit and the pro version, which is priced at $3,995, is that the DIY kit requires assembly. However, the company suggests that only people with previous experience with 3D printers purchase the DIY version, but it needs no knowledge of electronics. On the other hand, the pro version comes completely assembled with additional cartridges, accessories, and a longer warranty.

The LuckyBot by Wiiboox is available as a full 3D printer or the food extruder unit can connect to most standard FDM 3D printers, such as from Creality, Anycubic, and Flashforge, by simply replacing its existing printhead with the LuckyBot.

At around $179, the extruder unit is priced much lower than the full 3D printer, which comes as a self-assembly DIY kit, at $600.

The company says the Luckybot is capable of both 2D and 3D designs and is made with food-grade nozzles and parts. Aimed at both business owners and foodies, the extruder can print soft pastes from chocolate to mashed potatoes and everything in between.

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The Foodbot S2 from China-based company of the same name features an easy-to-use interface and a relatively large print volume. There also a version called the D2 that has two food extruders ($7,000).

This one’s called the Foodbot and not Chocolatebot for a reason: It can print with a wide range of materials, such as potato or bean paste and jams, but some are unique to the Foodbot – cheese, for example. Foodbot’s software helps create designs for any of these materials with high accuracy.

A warning for any caterers or event vendors, this printer is heavier than the two printers above and less portable, and for almost a thousand dollars more than the Sweetin.

Foodbot 3D Printer

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