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John Doe wrote:
A microwave oven counts as cooking only in the most broad and generous of definitions. One huge problem is immobilising food in the oven. Someone mentioned baking bread. You'd probably have the dough in a rough "baguette" shape that is sqewered on some metal stick that would hold it in place in the oven. It would cook from all around (eg: no baking pan to hold it. Probably much easier to enclose it in an open ended tube or a closed box. (Which are both proven methods.) But cooking a roast beef would require the roast beef be placed in some sort of heat resistant bag to contain all the juices that would flow out, and this would have issues of how to release the extra pressure when water boils inside the bag, and whether the roast would be "cooked" or boiled in steam. 'Boiled in steam' is 'cooked'... This method of cooking is known as boil-in-bag and has been around for decades. (Though its a bit of a misnomer as the contents don't actually boil.) A more modern method is sous-vide which involves cooking at much lower temperatures, no pressure or steam involved. However, improving food preparation in space would be far more interesting "research" than watching crystals grow in a test tube. There are definite challenges to it. The science performed on the station isn't selected to give you a stiffie. D. -- Touch-twice life. Eat. Drink. Laugh. http://derekl1963.livejournal.com/ -Resolved: To be more temperate in my postings. Oct 5th, 2004 JDL |
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nmp wrote:
Derek Lyons wrote: nmp wrote: Greg D. Moore \(Strider\) wrote: I wonder if anyone has ever tried to really cook in space? What would be necessary to make this possible? Of course, big honking frying pans are useless in Zero G, but has anyone ever tried something more creative than heating up precooked stuff? They surely must have a little microwave oven up there. What else? A microwave oven counts as cooking only in the most broad and generous of definitions. Precisely. But a combined oven (what you call them in English, with hot air blowers) would give a few more possibilities. They have a microwave oven, which recently gave some trouble. The importance of this item was evidenced in the way room was ruthlessly carved out of the next available mission manifest to send up a replacement. Mike Ross |
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wrote in message ... I thought the russian service module was equipped with all kinds of hygienic stuff... No shower or clothes washer/dryer. They wash themselves by hand only then? For several months? Yes, this is what they do. What does the space station smell like from inside? Surely as bad as the shuttle does after a couple of weeks with five to seven people living in it. Which is to say the smell bowls you over. Jeff -- A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein |
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A rare moment: NASA TV is carrying the joint crew dinner. It is in
zvezda. They have music going. And you can hear voices, but can't follow conversations. But there is a very very definite "powerful" white noise. Reminds me a bit of a car wash heard from the street, with its powerful blowers to dry cars. In the past, we had seen the press conferences in zvezda with mikes used near mouths, whereas in this scene, the mikes were probably floating around, providing ambiant noise/sounds, so the background noises were far mroe prominant. |
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