The article will discuss how the sci-fi vision of the "Star Treck" series, in which a food replicatior aboard a Federation spaceship materialises elements such as tomato soup, tea or coffee (as well as alien foods) out of thin air, as by magic, may become a real machine in the not too distant future. On the one hand, the 3D printing industrial revolution, which is currently changing how new products are designed, developed, produced, marketed and consumed, has also reached the world of cooking.