Comments on: Cooking in Space: Slow, Mediocre, and Dangerous http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/25/cooking-in-space-slow-mediocre-and-dangerous/ Quirky, funny, and surprising science news from the edge of the known universe. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 02:04:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: How to Turn a Papasan Chair Into a Solar Cooker | Discoblog | Discover Magazine http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/25/cooking-in-space-slow-mediocre-and-dangerous/comment-page-1/#comment-24803 How to Turn a Papasan Chair Into a Solar Cooker | Discoblog | Discover Magazine Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:06:26 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/25/cooking-in-space-slow-mediocre-and-dangerous/#comment-24803 [...] Content: Discoblog: How to Make Solar Chocolate Chip Cookies on Your Car Dashboard Discoblog: Cooking in Space: Slow, Mediocre, and Dangerous Discoblog: The World’s First “All Synthetic” Meal Graces a Five-Star [...] [...] Content: Discoblog: How to Make Solar Chocolate Chip Cookies on Your Car Dashboard Discoblog: Cooking in Space: Slow, Mediocre, and Dangerous Discoblog: The World’s First “All Synthetic” Meal Graces a Five-Star [...]

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]]> By: Uncle Al http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/25/cooking-in-space-slow-mediocre-and-dangerous/comment-page-1/#comment-21974 Uncle Al Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:49:33 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/25/cooking-in-space-slow-mediocre-and-dangerous/#comment-21974 NASA is consistent. It can't handle either input or output. Plumpy'nut is 30% milk powder, 28% sugar, 25% peanut butter, 15% oil, and 1.6% vitamin-mineral mix; 500 Calories/92 grams and "it is very difficult to over-eat." It doesn't spoil when abandoned to heat, humidity, and pestilence. André Briend invented Plumpy'nut, but intensive NASA studies and a few false starts could rename it AstroChow. Feeding our brave asstronaughts self-regulated 1500 Calories/day would require a mere 1.3 tonnes of AstroChow for a whole Mars round trip. Six 55 gallon drums of AstroChow and some calibrated spoons would do it. America is buried under vast agricultural surpluses of peanuts, powdered milk, sugar, and vegetable oil. Peanuts are wonderfully rich with fiber. A seventh initially empty drum initiates Number 2 reclamation processes. An International Warning Orange tag will avoid confusion with the concurrent input drum (though after the first year it might not make much difference). NASA is consistent. It can’t handle either input or output.

Plumpy’nut is 30% milk powder, 28% sugar, 25% peanut butter, 15% oil, and 1.6% vitamin-mineral mix; 500 Calories/92 grams and “it is very difficult to over-eat.” It doesn’t spoil when abandoned to heat, humidity, and pestilence. André Briend invented Plumpy’nut, but intensive NASA studies and a few false starts could rename it AstroChow.

Feeding our brave asstronaughts self-regulated 1500 Calories/day would require a mere 1.3 tonnes of AstroChow for a whole Mars round trip. Six 55 gallon drums of AstroChow and some calibrated spoons would do it. America is buried under vast agricultural surpluses of peanuts, powdered milk, sugar, and vegetable oil.

Peanuts are wonderfully rich with fiber. A seventh initially empty drum initiates Number 2 reclamation processes. An International Warning Orange tag will avoid confusion with the concurrent input drum (though after the first year it might not make much difference).

]]> By: andrew http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/25/cooking-in-space-slow-mediocre-and-dangerous/comment-page-1/#comment-21959 andrew Thu, 26 Mar 2009 12:46:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/03/25/cooking-in-space-slow-mediocre-and-dangerous/#comment-21959 We can put a man on the moon, but you'll have to order out. We can put a man on the moon, but you’ll have to order out.

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