History of Human Space Exploitation

Chapter 15 General Guidelines for Making Pizza in a Space Travel Environment
Pizza is a popular food that has been around for nearly 4000 years.This "bread with cheese" food has a large number of fans all over the universe.After entering the space age, because this kind of food has good raw materials and easy storage, it continues to maintain a strong vitality among the busy people in space.

The calorie and nutrient density of pizza are higher than the average level of common staple food, and the threshold for production training is low, which is the level of production for the chefs in various interstellar spacecraft.In the past 100 years, pizza has been the most common food on the tables of small-scale caravans, expeditions and scientific expeditions.

As early as the era of Ms. Gu Lanlan and Zhang Dongyang, although in space, humans have been able to use instant food more conveniently.Even freshly ground coffee in a pressure vessel, or various juice drinks in compressed packaging, or alcoholic beverages in similar packaging.However, in terms of food restrictions, in fact, nearly 200 years after the discovery of the first Star Tunnel No. [-], that is, before the large-scale application of the expensive centrifugal gravity simulator, there was no major breakthrough.

The change in situation occurred around 300 Era.The era of space travelers dominated by pioneers, careerists, and professionals is no longer the time when human beings just stepped out of the solar system.These personnel are basically quasi-professional astronauts who have received no less than half a year of hard and intensive training.At least half a year of professional training enables these men and women who are new to space to adapt to the boring life caused by the confined space on the earth or low-gravity planets and a single type of supply.

If the initial space travel started from the solar system or Star Tunnel 300, the longest journey would be no more than [-] astronomical units, and the travel time could be controlled to about three months.Around the [-]th era of the universe, more star tunnels were opened, making the average travel distance between important star regions or planets reach hundreds of astronomical units, or the travel time is often planned in units of years.

In addition to the increase in travel distance and time, people who step into space because of interests, curiosity, loneliness, or simple survival are no longer strictly screened.Of course, there is no more budget for this generation of would-be space travelers to intervene, at least psychologically, to prepare for such a long and boring trip.The result is naturally obvious. Travelers who have no space experience or even basic space knowledge often start various behaviors that doctors have warned about after the excitement of the first week of spaceship life.These "novices" in space, after that "first week of interest", began to predictably irritability and depression, or several other common symptoms.

In the 137th year of the cosmic era, the three-month journey from the Palance star in the Sorios star zone to the Olin star in the Russell star zone through the star tunnel No. 1-6-5 started at the space port of the Lance Nebula Sun.The small tent transport ship carried 730 mine operators, agricultural product supervisors, and unemployed migrants.Ten days after leaving Yunyang Space Port, that is, No. 11 days after departure, more than one-third of the passengers planned to organize a series of riots because they couldn't stand the compressed food in space.At this time, Ms. Zhu Xiaoyue, the first officer who had been serving on the Little Tent for two years, showed her extraordinary talent.

Zhu Xiaoyue used scrap aluminum sheets, iron sheets, and quartz tubes to remodel several temporary ovens capable of maintaining a temperature of [-] degrees Celsius in the narrow centrifugal gravity chamber of the spaceship.At the same time, she ordered the crew and assistants to open the spaceship's transport compartment and found starch, salt, sugar, frozen pork, frozen tomatoes and beef fat that would be processed into more disgusting spaceship food to be shipped to the destination.

With those ingredients, she whipped up an unprofessional but basically usable pizza base, salami, tomato sauce, and cheese from a vague memory of her vacation work at the next-door pizzeria 20 years ago.Using these things, after three days, due to the lack of yeast or the dough that is difficult to ferment well due to the lack of yeast or soda, the pizza made with a slightly hard taste was placed on the temporary table set up by the passengers.

In addition to pizza, first officer Zhu Xiaoyue also made a "mysterious gift" during the three days of waiting for the sausages to be formed and the bread to be fermented at low temperature. She used inferior frozen corn and yeast to brew a ton for the passengers. Corn beer is thrown on the ground in bars and restaurants. This kind of low-alcohol beverage, which was traditionally used in space and disdained by all spacecraft, has become a means of adjusting the atmosphere of passengers during this "dangerous" trip. Packed goods.

After a piece of pizza that was sticky, warm, ice-cold, or normal temperature was chewed whole and then sent into the esophagus, accompanied by corn beer that took away the heat with the universe being close to absolute zero, the passengers of the entire spaceship It's all boiling.They lifted Ms. Zhu Xiaoyue above their heads and passed her around the spaceship with their arms.Passengers who entered space for the first time thanked this "space lady" who understood their appetite in this simple and enthusiastic way.

Afterwards, almost all interstellar travel spacecraft equipped with various sizes of centrifugal gravity equipment have remodeled appropriate spaces for kitchen use, and corresponding storage cryogenic equipment and cooking equipment have also appeared on these spacecraft.Although this small improvement cannot be defined as an epoch-making change, it objectively increases the fun of interstellar travel, and greatly reduces the damage that is enough to cause non-professionals to fall into depression travel.

These low-cost improvements made it possible to arrange an interstellar voyage for two to three months in the past, and then extend it to half a year to a year, further reducing the cost of interstellar exploration to some extent.

This guide is applicable to all types of spaceships below 200 meters in height and only comes with a small embedded centrifugal gravity service cabin. Here I wish all travelers a pleasant journey!
[-]. Material preparation

This ingredient list makes eight twelve-inch or 730-square-centimeter pizzas, or enough for eight to ten adults to eat at one time.Each 350-inch pizza can provide the eater with 150 calories; [-] grams of carbohydrates; [-] grams of fat and calories; [-] grams of calcium and other trace elements.

1. High-gluten flour with a protein content of 13.5%~15%: 2400 grams;
2. Shredded cheese with a salt content not higher than 2%: 1200 grams;
3. Sliced ​​sausages with a net meat content of not less than 85% and a fat content of not less than 5%: 800 grams;
4. Tomato paste with a solid content of not less than 29% and a water content not higher than 65%;

5. Oligosaccharides whose dissolution rate is not less than 90.00%;
6. Mine salt or sea salt with a sodium chloride content of not less than 99.3g/100g;
7. Vegetable seed oil;

8. High activity and low sugar type plant yeast.

[-]. Preliminary preparation

1. Add 25 grams of plant yeast to 85 grams of standard water at the normal temperature of the earth, that is, 180 degrees Celsius, and [-] grams of [-] degrees Celsius hot water, and let it stand for [-] seconds until the yeast is completely dispersed in the water.

2. After the yeast is completely dissolved in water, add [-] grams of sugar; [-] grams of salt; [-] grams of vegetable oil, and stir the solution evenly.

3. After the above solution is stirred evenly, add 13 grams of high-gluten flour, and then knead the flour in the dough kneader for [-] minutes. The dough should be smooth and not sticky.

4. Place the dough in a covered container five times the volume of the dough, and ferment at room temperature for 25 to 24 hours at normal earth temperature (48 degrees Celsius).The best fermentation time can reach 48 hours, but generally speaking, 24 hours is basically enough.But for the sake of taste, please do not exceed 24 hours.

5. After fermenting at room temperature for 24 hours, place the dough that has been fermented to two to three times its original volume in the kneading machine and knead it again for 1 minute to release the gas and return to the original dough volume.

6. Place the deflated dough in a low-temperature storage device (such as a refrigerator) and ferment for 48 hours at low temperature.

[-]. The process of placing the bottom of the cake

1. Take out the low-temperature fermented dough and let it stand for 25 minutes at normal earth temperature (15 degrees Celsius) until the dough softens.

2. Divide the dough into eight portions, each 350g small dough.

3. Roll out each small dough into a dough cake with a diameter of [-] inches and a thickness of [-] mm.

4. Use tools such as pizza eye drills or chopsticks, forks, etc., to poke the area on the dough cake except for the area within a circle of three centimeters from the edge, with a depth of not less than 45 mm and a density of not less than one per square centimeter. hole.

5. Apply tomato paste with a thickness of [-] mm on the perforated area.

6. Sprinkle [-] grams of grated cheese evenly on the tomato sauce coating.

7. Spread one hundred grams of sausage evenly on the cheese grated layer.

8. Spread [-] grams of shredded cheese evenly on the sausage layer.

[-]. Baking process

1. Preheat the overall temperature of the oven to 350 degrees Celsius. (Note, although the reminder here is redundant in 90.00% of the spaceship fusion energy kitchen equipment, but still need to pay attention: under any circumstances, including opening the door, etc., the internal temperature of the oven should not be lower than [-] degrees Celsius , otherwise it will seriously affect the quality of pizza baking)

2. Put the prepared pizza into the oven and bake for 8 minutes.

3. Take out the baked pizza and slice it.

4. Serve.

5. Let's eat!
6. Accept the cheers at the dinner table!

This production guide needs to be applicable in an environment with a gravity of [-] to [-] times the earth.If it is higher than [-] times the gravity of the earth, the formula of the cake base needs to be adjusted to achieve the original fermentation level.If it is lower than [-] times the gravity of the earth, the friction force of the contact surface between the bottom of the cake and the oven or baking pan is not enough to counteract the inertia during baking, which will affect the baking effect. In this case, it is recommended to use a special low-gravity baker. pan or oven.

Considering that the centrifugal gravity machines of most small and medium-sized spacecraft only achieve gravity locally in the spacecraft, in order to facilitate travelers to eat in a zero-gravity environment, this guide recommends using the stickiness of two layers of cheese and deeper air holes in the bottom of the cake. Ensure the integrity of the bottom of the pancake and toppings such as cheese salami under low gravity.

After testing by the author in my own home, this formula does have very good versatility.In my home, where the Kamin index is 999.3 and the gravity is 0.91 times that of the earth, the pizza made using this guide is basically the same as when I went to Sea Cliff Star for vacation a few years ago, the locals there thought the best pizza restaurant "Hamilton Pizza" The production is comparable.The author strongly recommends pizza lovers all over the universe to follow this guide and try to make their favorite food at home!
Author of the entry: Li Jufei (Executive Chef of No. 537 Star Longrui Hotel in McGann, submitted in [-] of the Universal Epoch)
The full text of this entry is excerpted from: "9973 Questions about Daily Life of Amateur Space Travelers" 73rd Edition

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