Creating with Laser Cutters and Engravers by Mary-Lane Kamberg

Author:Mary-Lane Kamberg [Kamberg, Mary-Lane]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc.

Some laser-happy foodies have taken to engraving fruits and vegetables with laser cutters. They’ve etched pictures on eggplants, entire paragraphs on zucchini, and quotations on apples. They’ve also made gingerbread houses and layered laser-cut peach pie top crust in the shape of leaves. One pancake lover created a Spirograph design cooked into batter that had been poured into an empty circle cut out of a piece of wood. Heat and engraving techniques from the laser cutter cooked the food.

FUTURE OF FRUT

Fruit growers in the European Union (EU) have found a practical use for laser cutters. They have replaced the stickers commonly found on fruit in grocery stores with laser markings for price look-up (PLU) codes and bar codes that identify the price and origin of the produce.

The EU first banned use of iron oxides and hydroxides to coat citrus, melons, and pomegranates to give more contrast to laser etching. However, thanks to a three-year-long lobbying effort by Spain’s Laser Food, a “new generation” labeling company, the EU lifted the ban on June 23, 2013.

The ruling does not require laser etching by growers, but simply allows it.

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