Mike
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Post by Mike on Jun 27, 2017 12:03:32 GMT
Since, for digesting warm food, our organisms use less energy, so overall it is better to eat warm meal, than cold one, I was thinking about frying. For that we need some sort of oil, or fat. So, what plants will be best for this? Maybe we can use something which would be also available for consumption raw? What about fat? Can we extract it form fishes, and use for frying?
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Post by bigred on Jun 27, 2017 12:08:19 GMT
Mike are you sure you want to use frying oil in an open environment on a space habitat. It might be ok but there would need to be some pretty heavy safety variables in play wouldn't there?
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Mike
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Post by Mike on Jun 27, 2017 12:12:56 GMT
Well, we have to think about all possible ways of food preparation, if there will be only small variation of available components. How long can you eat only Cooked Potatoes with Cricket Pasta on Salad Leaves?
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Post by phicksur on Jun 27, 2017 12:48:27 GMT
I have been considering food preparation and have come to the conclusion that the method which we use to cook would need to be completely redone.
Oxygen is the most scarce resource on a space station. We would need to do whatever is reasonably possible to prevent anything which would consume oxygen. That means we would need to use electricity, not natural gas or other combustibles, to heat and cook food.
In addition, something as simple a grease pan fire would consume a tremendous amount of oxygen compared to a person. Presuming that people are not all perfectly competent in cooking and will, at some point, light something on fire, we need to remove as much actual fire from the realm of possibility.
I had considered using a sonic equivalent of a microwave as a means of heating food in a way where it won't have the ability to produce flames, or perhaps a cyclonic cooker (which I have used in reality) to cook food in a safe and fire-proof manner.
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petrv
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Post by petrv on Jun 28, 2017 23:20:39 GMT
Mike - very honestly - regarding the food preps there maybe would be some closed-box friteuses in the future, but I don´t hink it´s the question of upcoming decade or two...
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Post by phicksur on Jun 29, 2017 1:00:02 GMT
The more I think about it, cyclonic cooking seems to be the best way to handle food preparation. It has a very low chance of catching fire (the same as any other electrical appliance), and cannot easily 'burn' food as it only uses heated air to cook food, similar to an oven but with less chance of burning.
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