You gotta admit "chicken from a 3-D printer" is pretty funny.

Why? We’ve taken the ink jet printer technology and adapted it in all kinds of ways. You’ve seen them build a house foundation (may even the whole house) out of concrete squirting out of a moving nozzle. If you’ve seen inside a food factory you’ve seen nozzles squirting stuff into cups to make cupcakes or cookies or whatever. They do flooring and tile by squiring colored cement from a moving jet printer.

Jerky is made by squeezing meat paste out through a nozzle and then drying it beyond recognition. Why not have a 3-D chicken printer in the kitchen? You buy the meat paste, and then tell it what to make: “Um, tonight I think I’ll have thighs, and maybe one drumstick. Tomorrow! Wings for the game!”

Imagine being able to select the size of the breast meat: S, M, L. It’s like a pre-Tovala accessory. Eventually they can just deliver the meat paste to the house through tubes, like water is now. They’ll drop a half dozen tubes at least, for milk, for soda, for meat paste, maybe one for pudding or something.

I bet my “Chick 3D” appliance would be a big seller. I must contact Elon.