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#26 2004-12-20 23:19:16
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Re: Gourmet Cooking en route to Mars
I'm not sure I could go without some sort of fresh meat.
Theres got to be an animal that can provide a fair amount of meat without a huge amount of logistics.
Rabits maybe.
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#27 2004-12-21 06:16:25
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Yup that would be part of the logistics of going from research and science to be a colony that is self suffiecient.
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#28 2004-12-21 08:26:43
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This is good news..
Looks like the only draw back is waiting for a shuttle flight. 
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#29 2006-03-23 05:06:26
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#30 2020-01-12 18:25:11
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Blast from the past on cooking.
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#31 2020-01-12 19:56:10
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To bring it up to date...the robot chef:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6_LCwu7dOg
I think this is definitely the way forward for Mars where cheap kitchen labour will not be available.
You'll be able to go into a robot restaurant, order (and pay for) your robot-meal and have it served at your table by robots. The robots will remove the dishes and wash them up. Maybe there will be one or two humans in overall supervision in the fancier restaurants as we may still value the human interaction.
I expect such systems could also incorporate health checks to ensure no food poisoning occurs.
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#32 2020-01-27 11:35:13
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We are getting ready to be able to cook in spoace and on mars surface with this work.
Experimental ISS oven allows astronauts to bake cookies in two hours
The results from the great spacey bake-off are finally in and have revealed that in order for astronauts to successfully bake a batch of cookies, they need to set their cooking timers to at least two hours.
The baking experiment, which took place on the International Space Station in late December and involved astronauts Luca Parmitano and Christina Koch, was carried out in an effort to determine whether it was at all possible to bake in space.
The five chocolate chip cookies used in the experiment have remained sealed in individual baking pouches at a lab in Houston, Texas, after being brought back to Earth on a SpaceX capsule in early January. However, erring on the side of caution, officials have steered clear of conducting any taste tests and instead started sifting through their baking data.
Most shocking of the findings was the difference in baking times between Earth and space. Compared to an average baking time of roughly 20 minutes on Earth, researchers found that astronauts weren't able to see any successful cookie results until the timer neared the two-hour mark.
"There's still a lot to look into to figure out really what's driving that difference, but definitely a cool result," Mary Murphy, a manager for Texas-based Nanoracks, said in a statement to the Associated Press. Nanoracks, alongside startup company Zero G Kitchen, was involved in the baking project by providing NASA with the specially-designed electric test oven. "Overall, I think it's a pretty awesome first experiment."
Data shows that the first of five cookie dough pieces was placed in the oven for a period of 25 minutes at a temperature of 300 degrees Fahrenheit and came out "seriously underbaked," according to AP. Although the temperatures were upped for the following two doughs, results didn't improve much.
A success wasn't radioed back to Earth by Parmitano until the fourth tester stayed in the prototype Zero G Oven oven for two hours. "So this time, I do see some browning. ... I can't tell you whether it's cooked all the way or not, but it certainly doesn't look like cookie dough anymore," the Italian astronaut reported.
The fifth tester, which was left in the oven for 130 minutes at a maximum temperature of 325 degrees Fahrenheit, proved a success as well. It was also noted in the findings that all but the first tester gave off a desirable cookie smell when removed from the oven.
Follow-up testing will be carried out in the near future in order to determine if the cookies are indeed safe for consumption. AP reported that additional experiments will be carried out by Nanoracks and Zero G Kitchen to develop more space kitchen appliances.
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#33 2022-09-22 09:44:09
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Why salt makes things taste so good – or does it?
https://cosmosmagazine.com/health/why-s … e-so-good/
Heart disease’s arch nemesis.
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