Astronaut Chris Hadfield and Chef Traci Des Jardins Make a Space Burrito

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

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Id: f8-UKqGZ_hs

Length: 10min 51sec (651 seconds)

Published: Tue May 21 2013

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[u/Leoniceno]

So what's the myth, that you can't make a burrito in space?