Is frying food possible in space?(phys.org)
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Is frying food possible in space?
https://phys.org/news/2023-06-frying-food-space.html
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The last thing I'd bring into a space ship is a deep fryer.
If I had to stay for a very long (say, lifelong) time, I would
Using a deep fryer in space ensures you’re there for the rest of your life
Why, can't an astronaut live on with a fried face?
Or at the very least, makes for a perpetually stinky spaceship.
And very crispy.
You could squeeze between two flat heated plates, To allow steam to vents, a number of small holes would do it. With uneven objects a high temp radiant source would work and the grid could be sparse - like chicken wire
I was thinking waffle iron / sandwich press, both of which seem to work fine without much in the way of venting (though if you tried to cook broccoli in a waffle iron that might become more of an issue?)
Frying = heat above the Maillard reaction range. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maillard_reaction#:~:text=The%....
I think microwaves work fine for boilable food(Broccoli, rice potatoes etc) and a pressure cooker would also work. A pressure fryer (heats above Maillard thermal transition) fries very well at KFC's and Popeye's etc all over and can have both thermal input as well as microwave input (heats food all the way through fasts - versus thermal gradient = fried food in 3 minutes) These should all work in space in constrained spaces.
I think microwaves work fine for boilable food(Broccoli, rice potatoes etc) and a pressure cooker would also work. A pressure fryer (heats above Maillard thermal transition) fries very well at KFC's and Popeye's etc all over and can have both thermal input as well as microwave input (heats food all the way through fasts - versus thermal gradient = fried food in 3 minutes) These should all work in space in constrained spaces.
That's an interesting idea, I would expect microwaves to be practical in zero-g, but a pressure cooker might be trickier, my naive intuition is that the contents wouldn't stay on the bottom of the pot to be heated, and would also float into the valve?
This is so random and cool.
I bet we’ll find some really cool cooking techniques when we spend more time in zero gravity just through experimentation with a real kitchen.
I bet we’ll find some really cool cooking techniques when we spend more time in zero gravity just through experimentation with a real kitchen.
I bet you can make one heck of a solar oven in space, at least around Earth orbit.
Love content like this. Looking forward to @maxthemeatguy videos of dry aging steaks by leaving them outside a space station for some period of time..
if not, i'm not going there!