Showing posts with label freeze dried. Show all posts
Showing posts with label freeze dried. Show all posts
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Making astronaut ice cream in my home shop
In his recent post, Chris Gammell used astronaut ice cream as a fun example of how high tech innovation trickles down to consumer-level products. Seeing an image of astronaut ice cream in my G+ feed got me thinking about making some of my own. I managed to accomplish this with a harbor freight vacuum pump, some dry ice and various hoses and fittings. The process is known as freeze-drying and allows water to pass directly from ice to vapor, thus allowing the ice cream to maintain its physical structure while it is dried.
What should I freeze-dry next?
http://engineerblogs.org/2012/01/weekend-journal-the-trickle-down-techonomy/
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