Among the innovations present at Vivatech 2022, Futura went to see Digital Pastry, a surprising start-up from Normandy. Its purpose is to make life easier for pastry chefs by allowing them to 3D print certain pastry elements.
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[EN VIDÉO] World Chocolate Day: 3D printing plays gluttony Industry, aeronautics, automotive and even medicine: the fields of application of 3D printing are not lacking and are all very serious. But on the occasion of World Chocolate Day – which is celebrated every year on October 1 – let’s discover in video how a 3D printer can make the game of the most greedy.
Marine Coré-Baillais specializes in impression 3D and passionate about baking. She decided in 2019 to combine passion and expertise by founding The Pastry Digital, in order to'” automate low value-added tasks for catering professionals, such as bakers and pastry chefs, she explains. The majority of them work close to 90 hours a week, ultimately earning littleargent compared to the work they do. By intelligently automating certain tasks, it’s a real time saver for them.”
Some pastry chefs end up making a choice about what will be homemade: they then buy a large part of their products, such as pastries which arrive frozen. It’s there that Digital Pastry intervenes: it allows overworked craftsmen toautomate manufacturing the simplest but essential elements, such as pie shells, or biscuits in various shapes: “ The pastry chef can focus on creativity and decorations”adds Mr.Coré-Baillais.
Up to 300 equivalent pie shells per day
The process is simple: the pastry chef chooses his 3D model using a applicationthen prepares the dough cake and place it in the printer container. To the latter is added an edible and recyclable powder up to seven times, composed of flour and cocoa. It allows the dough to cake not to adhere too much to the walls of the container. Then, the printing starts: the tip is planted in the tray, forms the requested pattern, then everything is cooked.
In total, up to 300 equivalent pie bases can be cooked per day using this method. “Here, the biscuit is made with ingredients natural and organic: the biscuit has a chocolate flavor, then a candied passion fruit is integrated into it, in addition to a mousse au chocolat vegan », details Mr. Coré-Baillais. By the end of the year, the start-up account produce 25 machines which will be leased, and part of which has already been reserved by investors.
The frosting was 3D printed directly onto the chocolate pie. © The Digital Pastry
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