On 4/1/2018 9:36 PM, James Davies
wrote:
Great pic, thanks for
sharing!
Modern warships devote
space to galleys, kitchens, food storage etc. the crew don't
eat MREs or frozen dinners routinely. When you're away from home
for months at a time poor food is one of those things that can
break you.
Modern warships have the space to do this. Traveller ships do not.
For the mess hall you will need about .5dton+ per person seated and
probably about about 1dton per 10 people served at a time.
Minimum. And that doesn't count the stores. You just can't pull
that amount of volume out of the stateroom allowance and still have
a viable ship with passages, staterooms, or any sort of privacy.
The frozen dinners of the mid 70s and 80s are vastly different than
those available today, 30-40 years later. Now, apply thousands of
years of development to food service technology and I think the
pre-packaged portions have potential.
If '3D printing' of food
is possible in the future then I can imagine kitchens and cooks
not being required, but the basic human need for reasonable
quality food will still be there.
This has potential and could be what happens, though I would think
that the issue of flavored paste formed into common looking items
would be an issue.
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Kurt Feltenberger
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