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Asteroid belt menus
6pairsofshoes:
Klingons seem like evolved heavy metal musicians. I don't think their cuisine would be much to my liking. Probably like intergalactic road food or something.
6pairsofshoes:
This podcast makes me think that, if we ever make it into space, eating will be the least of our worries. https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS81NG5BR2NJbA?sa=X&ved=0CBEQlvsGahcKEwiYluyZgpWDAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQLA
And to think, a trip to the Int'l Space Station is only 250 miles. It's a longer trip to Los Angeles from San Francisco.
8ullfrog:
I remembered you talking about 2001 - A space odyssey, and it popped up on my facebook feed today.
A tray filled with pastes, and a fairly odd spoon type instrument to scoop with.
They are heated in a radar range (essentialy a microwave)
The meals are thought up in huston and a nutritional regiment is specialized.
There are 18 varieties.
When the astronaut is done eating, they put their tray in a cleaning slot pretty much identical to a standard dishwasher.
I find it interesting how close it is to the ISS video you posted.
In regular movies, Ice cream tends to be mashed potatoes, under film lighting ice cream would melt before the scene was finished.
6pairsofshoes:
I can't imagine there's much dairy in space. So if you did manage to get coffee out there you'd probably have to drink it black, or with some kind of "Coffee Whitener" the most descriptive name I've ever heard for that product.
I was wondering what's in it. So I hear it's sugar (usually corn syrup), oil and water. How they make it "whiten" your coffee is a trick in itself. Cargeenan and cellulose gum are other regulars in these products. Occasionally they contain milk products like casein. One kind of funny aspect to this is that coffee creamer powder is highly explosive. The Wikipedia entry on Non Dairy creamers contains this little nugget.
--- Quote ---As with many other powders, large amounts of powdered non-dairy creamer powder are susceptible to dust explosion when suspended in air. Amateur filmmakers and pyrotechnicians[12] have taken advantage of this property to produce several types of fireball effects.[13] Individuals using powdered non-dairy creamer in the ordinary amounts used in a cup of coffee do not face a risk of dust explosion.[1]
--- End quote ---
But I'd expect that care should be exercised when storing large amounts of the stuff on a space station.
6pairsofshoes:
I wonder how they would be able to replicate the flavors of citrus in space, like dehydrated lemon juice powder? Finding water might be a task, but I'd expect it would be a minimal requirement to support life, just an issue of adjusting the taste of water that would be recycled a zillion times. Maybe if they shoot Jeremy Clarkson up there, he can start working on it in advance of human colonization so we'd be able to have a decent cup of coffee and some nice lemon curd on cream scones once we arrive.
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