let's talk about space food in the early days of space exploration the food was mostly squeezed out of tubes and brought up in dehydrated packets but today we can have quite a variety of food there's all sorts of things that we'd normally consume on Earth that we have here in space we just need some minor adaptations in the case of sandwiches we had to substitute for bread so we decided to use tortillas but why mostly it's because bread of course makes crumbs we need them on Earth the crumbs fal
l down to the ground but here Crumbs are just going to float away on the other hand the tortillas that we use are heat treated and specially packaged in an oxygen free environment to prevent mold from growing their practice packages like this and thanks to that process so to you like this can be good for 18 months so what we're going to do is we're going to open up our tortilla we're going to get our peanut butter squirt it onto the tortilla get our honey squirt that on there and we will have pe
anut butter honey sandwiches face open up the tortilla and voila weightless tortilla okay we got one tortilla whoa got away take my peanut butter open it up can't rip it fortunately we have space scissors they're attached by a tether so they don't go floating up take the scissors how to open the peanut butter punch peanut butter is open wheeze it onto the tortilla carefully and now a little honey hey I noticed something cool about the honey instead of the bubbles sitting up at the top because th
ere's no gravity to make it float up on the bubble it's floating in the middle [Music] okay all closed up and the envelope peanut butter and honey is ready to eat it's been pretty delicious but my hands are all sticky got to clean up we don't have a sink we don't have running water we've got to wash yourself up some other way disinfectant wipes all cleaned up nice and hygienic on the space station this goes in the trash lunch is over delicious
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