Aristotle University in Greece discovered that astronauts could cook their own french fries in zero gravity. The results of a study supported by the European Space Agency (ESA), published in International Food Studies.
The authors of the study developed a drug that was loaded onto the plane. The pilot performed various figures during the flight, as a result of which a state of weightlessness was achieved in the potato room. Scientists then added potatoes to the oil.
Scientists assumed that under such conditions, air bubbles will stick to the potatoes, which will prevent the product from frying – it will be raw inside. But as it turned out, gas bubbles began to leave its surface, as happened on Earth.
More research is needed for the exact technology, but the results show the possibility of cooking french fries in space.
Previously, an experiment was conducted on the ISS to study the human gastrointestinal tract using ultrasound. Especially for this experiment, the Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences produced a special ultrasound machine specially adapted to weightlessness. For more details on the procedure, see material “socialbites.ca”.