hey guys I heard you had a question for me yes we did given that you've been in space for six
months what we wanted to know is what is it specifically that you miss about earthquake
as opposed to space cooking well we can reheat and rehydrate our food up here you can't really
prepare it it's prepared for us already on earth it's in packages so after a while you really miss
fresh vegetables and fresh fruit especially after four or five months on Space Station you haven't
had fresh fruit in six months I'm sorry good really good we get a few kilos of fresh fruit
and vegetables every two or three months when a resupply ship comes up from earth and docks
but it's just maybe one Apple or one orange each and it doesn't keep because we don't have good
refrigeration it's been quite a while since I had a fresh green yeah that's rough yeah
unfortunately we don't have any better method than you guys do for getting fresh fruit up to
the station but we did under then as long as you've got eleven hundred person days
worth of rashes up there maybe our friend Traci Desjardins concoct something that's both fun to
make as well as deeply satisfying to eat thanks guys can't wait to see what Tracy comes up with
thanks guys we're here at the Johnson Space Center the food sights up I'm crazy to throw
down of Jordan air and a bunch of other awesome restaurants in San Francisco Tracy we tasted
a bunch of food very interesting experience aren't nearly as bad as I thought they would
something like this what was your favorite I think this day I'm going with the stage
so it's stabilized and stabilized and you know this one didn't have any seasoning on and if
everything else had like sauces and stuff this one was sleep plain I don't know you tried the
burger that was pretty plain to burger was pretty plain was a little salty it was it was a kind of
writing you like a cafeteria hamburger from LMI or middle school something like that because it
wasn't bad but it wasn't something I probably seek out right um so after tasting all this stuff what
are you thinking about making well I think I'm gonna make it a sort of steak the tortillas are
too small for a burrito but that would be what I would be thinking about so it's gonna look kind of
like a quesadilla but it's not really so yeah this is the steak and I mean it looks kind of like this
regular old steak it looks worse than it it looks it looks worse than it tastes yeah absolutely yeah
absolutely and I've got some black beans here which I'm gonna kind of squish up a little bit
okay and put a little black bean puree on there so commander Hatfield's making this in space what's
his procedures so he's gonna have this he's gonna have a steak this is these are both gonna be warm
all right and he's gonna have this tortilla it's gonna squirt the beans on take a couple pieces of
the steak stick them in there yep and a little crunch here I like you know a little texture I
think that that's lacking in a lot of his food so some of this freeze-dried rice okay little crunch
so you're not gonna rehydrate it no I'm not gonna be hydrated I'm gonna put it on there just like
this okay there's a little crunchy element and see what it see what exactly in a little Tabasco
and that's good that sounds great let's put it together and see what it tastes like what's it
everything has velcro patches yes and I'm gonna cute yeah it's really neat I mean they think of
everything so I'm gonna open up the steak okay I'm gonna take the beans and swish them a little
bit okay a little bit they recommend that was the turntable right yeah exactly so we're gonna kind
of do a curious thing going on here cut our little corner I'm imagining that I'm in space right there
I even notice you have your hair back so you don't have that crazy astronaut exactly and it tear this
up a little bit just a little pieces okay so just a bite size chunks patient actually we don't have
any utensils up there any knives rather there's no chopping station yeah exactly all right dr. Tiye
so how do these tortillas compare to you they're like normal kind of commercials is how they sleep
it's not very doughy okay they're really moist and doughy we've been told that they're they
have less water than a traditional really which is why they're shelf-stable just cuz all the food
on the station has to last for six to nine months depending on I think they go for a 12-month shelf
right okay you know the bean paste is the glue yeah it's a little surface to surface tension I
learned that today I didn't weigh exactly it's how things stick to other things like Lay's stick the
steak in there and you want to open that up yeah you know little spice happening a little sprinkle
here you can't just pour that in space that won't work no I know well actually I think you could if
you were close enough to it you have to kind of yeah you have a kind of you know and grab it at
the same time all right you ready for this oh there we go it's a being buried a beef steak
burrito yeah I think we should taste it what do you see how you doing I'm going to give it
a little roll here hmm there's a little quick from the chicken and right the right seam the chicken
advice not bad this is entirely there's a definite improvement over all the core component you can
imagine someone at college eating like that on a regular basis I much much worse stuff into that in
college oh thank you so much Tracy will send the recipe up to commander Hatfield and see what he
thinks and see you guys so how'd that burrito turn out Tracey put together a great recipe but like a
lot of people who are away from their own kitchen it's kind of hard to find all the ingredients
exactly but what I did come up with was tortillas beef stick and I found red beans and rice in one
package red beans and rice plus hot sauce so I think with these ingredients I can come pretty
close to will make something delicious excellent okay reading Tracey's recipe what I'm supposed to
do is take the bean paste and the steak and the tortillas and put them in the warming oven step 1
okay blue piping hot ready to mix up trace recipe was to open up the tortilla squirt on
the nice warm bean paste and then break up the beef steak put the V stick in there squirt on
some hot sauce roll it up like a burrito good ET let's give it a try space tortilla last 18
months in this package cut my tortilla ready now my bean paste nice and warm the corner
kind of open so it makes sort of like a little screwy nozzle so I can square it straight on
well that works well okay we get the beans and rice and now time to make
the steak what I'm gonna do with that in the meanwhile and hold it
in my tortilla package carefully velcro that to the table while I wait perfect
beefsteak Tracy sent to break it up into pieces
and put it in the tortilla it's starting to look good
ready for yesterday's Icehouse space hot sauce didn't read nice and spicy
hot sauce okay what we have here is beans rice beef hot sauce all wrapped up in a tortilla
that makes it time to try Traci's recipe let's see how it is the beauty of eating burrito or
tortilla inspaces nothing can fall out the best it can do is sort of float next to you
I'll eat this in you watch that it
that's us so it ended up being tasty good Chris how much more difficult is
it to assemble a meal and microgravity than it is on earth it's pretty hard
to put everything together normally as astronauts we just don't make a mash-up
we don't mix our food up we just eat it one thing after another in a row
Jamie Adam you guys probably think this cool our straw as a valve on earth so we can shut it on
and off so the stuff doesn't come squirting out all over the place nice very cool so what's your
first meal gonna be when you get back on earth when you first get back to Earth of course you
feel sick and busy you don't feel like eating at all it takes a while for your digestive system to
get used to be pushed down with gravity on your stomach and everything else so it takes a few
days but once I get my appetite back I'm really looking forward to fresh-baked bread smell coming
out of the oven to slather a little butter on top and then also pizza piping hot thin crust
veggie pizza extra sauce well Chris I hope we were able to spice things up a little bit for you up
there thanks bye Chris Thanks sure thing guys see you next week this is a Tracy Spacey burrito you
you