Fries cook better at 3Gs!

[GeneCash]

So the ISS guys have complained they want fries with that, but NASA says "no deep fryers in the dorms!!" and it's hard to do zero-gee on Earth, so the boffins went the other way and tried cooking in heavy gravity in a centrifuge.

"Lioumbas and Karapantsios fixed a deep-fryer containing potato sticks in half a litre of hot oil onto the end of the 8m-long arms of the Large Diameter Centrifuge at the European Space Research and Technology Centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands"

They found out it cooks faster and crispier, and they think that fries cooked in weightlessness would end up being nasty. They went up to 9G, but found 3G was, um, the sweet spot.

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20131219-can-astronauts-cook-fries/all

The whole time I was reading this, I was thinking of Jeb with a big chef's hat and a spatula... and Bill standing behind him with a plate.

[ZedNova]

All in a days work for science.

[Duxwing]

All in a days work for science.

For scieeeence!

-Duxwing

[Sirrobert]

That is awesome.

There is simply no other word for it. Awesome

[Deadpangod3]

I see Jeb cooking on eve.

So THAT'S where the Kerbals cake came from!

(I hope you get the reference)

[rpayne88]

We'll never know how well they cook in zero g without trying. I say we make a fryer that holds the oil in with a slight vacuum and contain the fries in a closeable basket. And it is a matter of importance. Speaking for my self and the people in my country (U.S.) we can not go long periods with out fries, making long term space exploration and tourism impossible.

[ZedNova]

We'll never know how well they cook in zero g without trying. I say we make a fryer that holds the oil in with a slight vacuum and contain the fries in a closeable basket. And it is a matter of importance. Speaking for my self and the people in my country (U.S.) we can not go long periods with out fries, making long term space exploration and tourism impossible.

Yeah i need a monthly dose of fries to keep my weight stable.

[Kinglet]

Now let's try 300 G! Logically, it should cook 100 times better.

Or it might be a catastrophic disaster.

[Nuke]

deep friers are tricky in normal earth conditions. i used to have a fry daddy but now i just deep fry in a pan on the stove. do corn fritters, onion rings, fries, donuts, shrimp, fish, chicken, etc. every time i damn near burn the house down. ive gotten rather good at it, but if you dont respect the grease, it will burn you.

hot oil in space, hell no! not a ship i want to live on. see oil at temperature is hot enough to ignite with very little added energy, it just takes one little droplet to flare up and you got a chain reaction on your hands. now you got this grease pit bolted in a centrifuge doing 3 gs. frying your fries will probily work. but what if the motor fails or worse, jams up suddenly? its sort of like spinning around with a bucket of water. it will spray everywhere it will likely get in some control panel and cause a flare up, which will ignite all the other microscopic droplets floating around the cabin. hell no. pretty soon the whole interior is burning (and i hope you are not running oxygen rich, because that might make that grease auto detonate).

now if you have some kind of ultra reliable mega 1g centrifuge on magnetic bearings, you might be able to deep fry without fear utter terror of the stuff you need to breathe to live being replaced by fire.