Watch this video of astronaut Chris Hadfield talk about space food.
Video Transcript
Let's talk about space food. In the early days of space exploration, food was mostly squeezed out of tubes and brought up in dehydrated packets. But today, we can have quite a variety of food. There's all sorts of things that we'd normally consume on Earth that we have here in space. We just need some minor adaptations. In the case of sandwiches, we had to substitute for bread, bread so we decided to use tortillas but why? Mostly it's because bread of course makes crumbs. We need them on earth the crumbs fall down to the ground but here crumbs are just going to float away. On the other hand the tortillas that we use are a heat treated and specially packaged in an oxygen-free environment to prevent mold from growing. They're packed with packages like this and thanks to that process a tortilla like this can be good for 18 months. So what we're going do is we're gonna open up our tortilla we're gonna get our peanut butter squirt it under the tortilla get our honey squirt that on there and we will have peanut butter honey sandwich in space
open up the tortilla and voila a weightless tortilla okay we got one tortilla oh got away
take my peanut butter open it up can't rip it fortunately we have space scissors they're They're attached by a tether so they don't go floating off. Take the scissors, cut open the peanut butter punch. Peanut butter's open. Squeeze it onto the tortilla carefully.
And now a little honey. Hey, I noticed something cool about the honey. Instead of the bubble sitting up at the top because there's no gravity to make it float up, the bubble is floating in the middle.
Okay, all closed up. and the envelope of peanut butter and honey is ready to eat. Not too bad. Last piece of my sandwich. It's been pretty delicious. While my hands are all sticky, I've got to clean up. We don't have a sink. We don't have running water. You've got to wash yourself up some other way. Disinfected wipes.
All cleaned up. Nice and hygienic on the space station. This goes in the trash. Lunch is over. Delicious.