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Old March 17th 08, 04:06 AM posted to sci.space.station
Derek Lyons
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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.
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Old March 17th 08, 09:01 PM posted to sci.space.station
Mike Ross[_3_]
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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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Old March 17th 08, 11:57 PM posted to sci.space.station
Jeff Findley
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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
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A wise person avoids it. -- Einstein


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Old March 19th 08, 09:37 AM posted to sci.space.station
John Doe
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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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