You can't take most of the comforts of home with you to orbit. But you can take tacos, thanks goodness. Watch Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, who is currently living on the International Space Station, demonstrate the fine art of making Mexican food in microgravity in the video below.
It may seem surprising that astronauts get to eat like this, but tacos (the soft-shell kind) are the ideal food to prepare in space. They're contained, for one thing. Unlike many more crumbly foods, tacos don't have a tendency to turn into crumbs that float away and clog the instruments. That's why astronauts use tortillas when they make zero-g sandwiches. Bread in space = bad.
Still, assembling an extraterrestrial taco isn't easy. Watch the clip and you can see ingredients try to flee from Cristoforetti. She uses the condiments—in this case leek cream—as a makeshift delicious glue to adhere the looser ingredients to the tortilla. On the plus side, she doesn't need a plate. When she needs both hands for a moment to open a container, she just lets go of the taco and it hangs there in front of her like, a treat freed from the tethers of gravity.
Now we just need to get NASA to let them take some Modelo Especial up there.
Source: Motherboard
