I read a research paper on hybrid crafting which included the forms it's being used nowadays - "Hybrid crafting: Towards an integrated practice of crafting with physical and digital components" and quoting the below from it:
"Craft has recently started to gain interest from the HCI community and over the past years a number of studies have looked at craft practice to inform design, or have developed ways to combine technology with more traditional means of crafting to support new craft practices with digital technology."
Notion of enhanced or ‘mediated crafts’
Tangible Interaction and crafting platforms A number of existing Tangible Interaction systems can be considered platforms that support making or crafting. Some of these have looked repurposing and employing existing means to novels ends, such as the use of open-source hardware as a means to support creativity [46,47], the role of hacking and DIY in tangible interaction [48], or creating objects that can be used in home crafting projects.
Another article I came across: Cognitive Space
Assignment Prompts Responses:
In the case of 3D printing cheese on a pizza it is a spectrum that expands and adds to the traditional process of layering cheese on a pizza. The boundary may be the texture of the cheese as it is supposed to melt in the beginning and then hold up. But what if we can do it the other way round? Can we 3D print solid form cheese and have the consumer melt the form on the pizza using oven heat?
First the dough making could be made or shaped using either the traditional hand form or machinery such as in frozen pizza making factories.
As for the sauce it could be poured and spread on the pizza either by an automated process or hand.
Then the topping and ingredients placed on the pizza could be hand placed since they are fresh organic and mostly delicate such as tomato, mushrooms, pepperoni...
As for the cheese, I imagined the layering of cheese to make up a form with height. more like a small built shape on top of the pizza which defies the regular shapes we're used to in seeing cheese on pizza. Most pizza lovers appreciate the extra cheese and what if we could be playful and create 3D printed structures with cheese?
Reference for machine/manual toolpaths (e.g. in Free-D):
3D printer, filler container for hard cheese, pressure push mechanism that pushes the cheese into a tube that in turn moves over the pizza and forms the shape.