Comment Re:Low gravity eating? (Score 2, Interesting) 362
Ed Lu, the current ISS science officer has this to say in his blog (http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp7/lul etters/lu_letter3.html) about eating in space:
"As for utensils, the only utensil we use is a spoon. Don Pettit had a pair of chopsticks up here, but I haven't found where he stashed them yet, so I can use them! It turns out there is no need for a fork or a knife. All of the food that requires a utensil to eat has some sort of sauce or at least some moisture to it, so it naturally sticks to the spoon. This is the same effect on the ground that allows drops of water to stick to windows, here it allows us to eat without having our food fly all over the place. This force isn't very strong, so you have to move fairly slowly when eating, or the food will literally fly right off your spoon (and onto the wall). "
Funny that NASA engineered their food specifically to work with spoons. But they have managed to semi-solve the problem of food in micro-gravity flying off of spoons.
"As for utensils, the only utensil we use is a spoon. Don Pettit had a pair of chopsticks up here, but I haven't found where he stashed them yet, so I can use them! It turns out there is no need for a fork or a knife. All of the food that requires a utensil to eat has some sort of sauce or at least some moisture to it, so it naturally sticks to the spoon. This is the same effect on the ground that allows drops of water to stick to windows, here it allows us to eat without having our food fly all over the place. This force isn't very strong, so you have to move fairly slowly when eating, or the food will literally fly right off your spoon (and onto the wall). "
Funny that NASA engineered their food specifically to work with spoons. But they have managed to semi-solve the problem of food in micro-gravity flying off of spoons.
