Jan 25, 2020 05:49 AM
https://bgr.com/2020/01/23/space-cookies...xperiment/
EXCERPT: . . . Recently, astronauts had the opportunity to do something that has never been done before: baking cookies in space. [...] Baking raw cookies in space is actually a lot harder than it is on Earth ... Placing the cookies in the oven at a similar temperature and for the same amount of time as you would on Earth resulted in cookies that were basically still raw.
Even after doubling the baking time to 50 minutes, the cookies were still not even close to being done. Eventually ... a whopping two hours and that proved to be the right amount of time. Another attempt at 130 minutes returned even better results.
[...] they were stored and sent back to Earth so that scientists can examine them ... this ... will be increasingly important ... when astronauts will embark on long-distance trips to places like Mars. Knowing how food can be prepared in space ... (MORE - details)
EXCERPT: . . . Recently, astronauts had the opportunity to do something that has never been done before: baking cookies in space. [...] Baking raw cookies in space is actually a lot harder than it is on Earth ... Placing the cookies in the oven at a similar temperature and for the same amount of time as you would on Earth resulted in cookies that were basically still raw.
Even after doubling the baking time to 50 minutes, the cookies were still not even close to being done. Eventually ... a whopping two hours and that proved to be the right amount of time. Another attempt at 130 minutes returned even better results.
[...] they were stored and sent back to Earth so that scientists can examine them ... this ... will be increasingly important ... when astronauts will embark on long-distance trips to places like Mars. Knowing how food can be prepared in space ... (MORE - details)