{"id":8556,"date":"2014-08-11T22:40:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-12T02:40:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8556"},"modified":"2014-08-11T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2014-08-12T02:44:08","slug":"sizzling-cooking-in-weightlessness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8556","title":{"rendered":"Sizzling cooking in weightlessness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #000000;\">A Cornell University group experimented with cooking in weightlessness by taking &#8220;<span style=\"color: #3d3d3d;\">a specially constructed space galley&#8221; onto a plane doing parabolic flights:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2014\/08\/low-gravity-scientists-search-way-saut\" target=\"_d\">In low gravity, scientists search for a way to saut\u00e9 &#8211; Cornell Chronicle<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.leonarddavid.com\/extraterrestrial-cooking-splatter-control\/\" target=\"_d\">Extraterrestrial Cooking: Splatter Control &#8211; Leonard David<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the Cornell Chronicle:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em><span style=\"color: #3d3d3d;\">In a series of four flights launched from Houston, the team tossed tofu and shredded potatoes into pans of sizzling oil and filmed the resulting oil splatters as the plane climbed and dove in parabolic paths. Each cycle created a brief period of partial weightlessness, simulating the conditions astronauts would face during extended stays on the moon or Mars, which have one-sixth and one-third the gravity of Earth, respectively.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3d3d3d; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The experimenters positioned strips of paper inside the galley fume hood and dyed the oil bright red to help them see and collect splatter patterns. Under reduced gravity conditions, the food settled more slowly into the pan, and more oil appeared to fall outside of it. The oil droplets also traveled a greater distance from the pan than under Earth conditions \u2013 probably because it took longer for gravity to pull them down, Arquiza said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #3d3d3d; padding-left: 30px;\"><em>Arquiza ended up with a collection of 200 red-speckled strips that might resemble evidence from a crime scene investigation, but could contribute greatly to our understanding of the basic science of cooking in space. He is now analyzing them to measure the particles\u2019 size distribution and distance traveled. Results will be used to create computer models that could be extrapolated to inform the design of future terrestrial and extraterrestrial cooking technology.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"inserted-image\" style=\"color: #3d3d3d;\" src=\"http:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/sites\/chronicle.cornell\/files\/Apollo_Galley8-7a.jpg\" alt=\"Apollo Arquiza\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"captioncredit\" style=\"color: #3d3d3d;\">\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Postdoctoral research associate Apollo Arquiza shows what the galley<\/em><br \/>\n<em> (kitchen) looks like in the zero gravity G-Force 1 space simulator plane.<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>[Credits\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/stories\/2014\/08\/low-gravity-scientists-search-way-saut\" target=\"_d\">\u00a0Cornell Chronicle<\/a>]<\/em><\/div>\n<div>And they have many other tests planned as well:<\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\" style=\"color: #666666;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"caption\" style=\"color: #666666; padding-left: 30px;\"><span style=\"color: #3d3d3d;\">The project is part of a larger investigation by Hunter\u2019s lab into scientific and social aspects of food in space, including a simulated Mars mission in Hawaii to test resource use, menu fatigue and the benefits of home cooking in an enclosed environment, and a bed rest study to test the effects of simulated weightlessness on smell and taste perception.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/news.cornell.edu\/sites\/chronicle.cornell\/files\/Cornell_Team8-7a.jpg\" alt=\"Bryn Caldwell, Susana Carranza, Apollo Arquiza\" width=\"460\" height=\"307\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>From left, Cornell researcher Bryan Caldwell, Makel Engineering researcher<\/em><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em> Susana Carranza and Cornell researcher Apollo Arquiza conduct low<\/em><br \/>\n<em> gravity cooking experiments aboard the G-Force 1 space simulator plane.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Cornell University group experimented with cooking in weightlessness by taking &#8220;a specially constructed space galley&#8221; onto a plane doing parabolic flights: In low gravity, scientists search for a way to saut\u00e9 &#8211; Cornell Chronicle Extraterrestrial Cooking: Splatter Control &#8211; Leonard David From the Cornell Chronicle: In a series of four flights launched from Houston, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=8556\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sizzling cooking in weightlessness<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,95,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-living-in-space","category-micro-g-rd","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2e0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12218,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=12218","url_meta":{"origin":8556,"position":0},"title":"The making of the OK Go video in weightlessness","author":"TopSpacer","date":"February 18, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"This article explains how the OK Go music video for Upside Down & Inside Out (see earlier post) was made using a Russian aircraft flying parabolic trajectories:\u00a0How OK Go Made That Amazing Zero-G Video - Jalopnik. 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