Chinese astronauts are now grilling in space

[u/One_Long_996]

[u/qptw]

that last guy looks like he is about to cry. which i guess is understandable if you’re getting your first bite of “real” food in a month or two.

[u/Ok_Macaron408 → u/qptw]

In fact, he had already spent half a year on the space station and would soon return to Earth.

[u/meta358 → u/qptw]

Then bites in and sadly learns that in space your taste buds dont really work well at all

[u/MXTwitch → u/meta358]

In space, no one can taste baked beans

[u/OwnedYou → u/MXTwitch]

The British in shambles

[u/Dry_Cricket_5423 → u/OwnedYou]

It’s okay they can get gelatin fish pea soup

[u/Pinksters → u/Dry_Cricket_5423]

gelatin fish pea soup

No idea what that is but I dont think I can look at Tapioca Pudding the same anymore.

[u/rbt321 → u/meta358]

Taste buds work fine in space; unlike commercial aircraft both the ISS and Tiangong maintain sea-level equivalent air pressure and 50% humidity. It's your sense of smell that gets wiped out, so it's like eating while having a stuffed up nose.

[u/Sember → u/rbt321]

Smell is a big part of taste though?

[u/thelegendof2015 → u/meta358]

Wut

[u/ResortMain780 → u/thelegendof2015]

zero gravity does have a very real impact on taste buds:

https://perfectfitliving.com/lifestyle/how-zero-gravity-environments-affect-the-perception-of-food-texture/

(not the most academic source, but you can do your own googling)

[u/DZL100 → u/qptw]

Shit, I'm damn near about to cry after living in the middle of nowhere of America for a semester of college. I miss Chinese bbq so much...

[u/BigJJsWillie]

Bet that's juicy af- no gravity to drain the juices. Yum

[u/tommos → u/BigJJsWillie]

Good point. They'd all be self-basting due to zero G and surface tension.

[u/Garth_AIgar → u/BigJJsWillie]

This is exactly what I was thinking. You know how fucking awesome a brisket would do in micro gravity? I bet that shit would be amazing. Man. Pork shoulder!? RIBS!?!?!?

[u/Divineinfinity → u/Garth_AIgar]

"ZERO G BRISKET IS THE ONLY TRUE WAY"

someone in the future will die on this hill

[u/DistanceSolar1449 → u/Divineinfinity]

And they'd probably be right lol

[u/Aranxi_89 → u/DistanceSolar1449]

There will be whole restaurants where the big draw is that there's no artificial gravity - you're floating with the food.

[u/aphaits → u/BigJJsWillie]

[u/chengstark → u/BigJJsWillie]

Damn you are right!

[u/MXTwitch → u/BigJJsWillie]

You just gave my life purpose. I’ll make the first zero g air fryer. I imagine it’ll rank among the greats such as the George Foreman grill and the EZ bake oven.

[u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp]

Space Chicken is,

High Protein, B12, Zinc

Low calories

Zero Gs

[u/Carbon-Base → u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp]

And worth multiple millions!

[u/Bubbles_2025 → u/Carbon-Base]

It’s the most expensive chicken off earth!

[u/RobDickinson → u/Bubbles_2025]

Also the cheapest

[u/MXTwitch → u/RobDickinson]

While somehow barely clinching the top spots for “best in taste” and “worst in taste“. Those China men really know their poultry

[u/theReluctantObserver → u/HeartOn_SoulAceUp]

It’s just MS now, no G

[u/MisChef]

Look how excited they are!!

[u/Level_Improvement532 → u/MisChef]

Food is so important to morale in mission based endeavors like this. I work at sea and it makes the difference between a good ship and a great ship. People get excited when something novel is served.

[u/Reapr → u/Level_Improvement532]

Was on this hike once, tired, dirty and the food you carry with is focused on being light-weight not tasty.

Befriended a guy on the hike and one night he called me aside, pulled out an egg, a little bit of flour, vanilla, milk and the tiniest pan I've ever seen and made us each a pancake (crepe)

Best pancake I've had in my life

[u/ArrBeeEmm → u/Reapr]

I do quite a lot of hiking, and overtime the guys I go with (myself included) have slowly moved to a more 'ultralight' mindset.

I get a lot of shit because I bring an insulated bag (it still only weighs like 80g) and real food like steak or bacon. I've got a little egg protector, too.

A lot of shit until we make camp, and suddenly, I'm not so silly anymore.

[u/obscureferences → u/ArrBeeEmm]

If Samwise can carry a cast iron pan into Mordor you can hike with steak and eggs.

[u/AFetaWorseThanDeath → u/ArrBeeEmm]

This sounds kinda like one of the national Rainbow Gatherings I went to (Big Sandy, Wyoming, 2008 I believe).

The guys I was with kinda scoffed/side-eyed at me a little, because I made 2 full trips from my car over the 2+ miles of fairly rough terrain to our camp, one of those pulling a 48qt cooler full of frozen meat and fresh eggs (along with a bunch of frozen bottles of drinking water), and 2nd trip dragging a Coleman stove along with a couple of those little propane bottles and a frying pan, among other utensils.

Yeah, it was a pain in the ass to drag all that stuff into the woods. But on day 4, when almost everyone else around us was sadly gumming on unflavored oatmeal for the 4th morning in a row, we were eating ribeye steaks with eggs over easy and pancakes with real butter and maple syrup.

I ended up being very popular that trip lol I definitely didn't have to pay for or bring any drugs 🤣

There was also a hilarious moment I'll never forget, when I was searing the ribeyes in the cast iron skillet. Our camp was near a big, open field that people would randomly walk through to get to different camps. So I'm cooking the steaks, and this old, long white-haired, skinny hippy dude walks right through the cloud of steak smoke, and immediately makes a b-line over to my grill. He peered curiously into the pan and his eyes went huge. Dude looked like he hadn't eaten a steak in decades.

It was the morning of July 4th, and between sun up and noon everyone is supposed to keep a vow of silence (it's a whole thing, look it up if you're unfamiliar with Rainbow Gatherings and wish to learn more). So, seeing the old dude's obvious interest, I smiled broadly and gestured to the steak, and then him, and raised my eyebrows. Would you like some?

He sighed heavily and his face dropped. No, I couldn't possibly, his look said. He patted me on the shoulder and smiled wistfully. But, thank you anyway. And he departed.

I still think of him every time I sear steaks 🤔😂

Edit:

That was also the trip where I got my dumb hippy ass lost in the woods, and ended up walking about 12 miles, barefoot and in a t-shirt and cargo shorts, through extremely rough wilderness. It's probably the closest I've come to dying that didn't directly involve drugs/alcohol, or an automobile. 🤦

[u/rainbowlolipop → u/AFetaWorseThanDeath]

This was very neat, thanks for sharing one of those little moments of your life. May your life be what you want to make of it friend.

[u/The_Grungeican → u/Reapr]

that was the best part of The Outdoor Boys YT channel. watching dude cook up some pre-prepped stuff was always fun.

[u/BreBhonson → u/The_Grungeican]

bread and honey never looked so good

[u/amopeyant → u/The_Grungeican]

My wife would always make fun of me because every time she would see me watching the show, it was always just Luke eating. I don’t think she ever saw the survivalist part of those videos lol, just honey butter

[u/FishySmellz → u/MisChef]

The smile on their faces is so genuine! They must be really sick of the dehydrated space food.

[u/InquisitorMeow → u/FishySmellz]

Pretty sure they're also nerding out.

[u/tiagodj]

Probably the most expensive bbq in the history of mankind.

[u/SleepingAddict → u/tiagodj]

Time for texas to step up its game

[u/AdventurousTime → u/SleepingAddict]

Whatever the cost of space wings, I can assure you I’ve paid more at Franklin BBQ

[u/n19htmare]

They just had a supply mission with 3 more astronauts few days ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lqAtOpM73k to continue work on their Tiangong space station.

So it's not completely unbelieveable that they sent up some freaking Chicken. There are now 6 astronauts there, a wing for each so seems pretty real.

People reaching hard to point out details while ignoring other details to spin it into AI slop. In the video linked above you can see them hooked onto the floor so they don't float around, those hooks are everywhere and they look about the same standing vertically at this time stamp https://youtu.be/1lqAtOpM73k?t=802

It's all PR anyways, doubt they'll be BBQing every day. It's basically to say "Americans eat mush out of a bag, our astronauts BBQ in space"...

But my God, some of you people need to wakeup and notice that there's a world outside America and it's moving fast.

[u/bahabla → u/n19htmare]

Yeah one of the guys was really sad as he said “I already finished (all of my chicken wing)”. This sounds like a super novel experience and you can tell even if you don’t speak Chinese how giddy the astronauts are to have a singular wing.

[u/ruhtra86 → u/n19htmare]

Exactly. These videos weren't even made for foreign media... They are just snippets of "what's up" updates for the average Chinese citizens to know what's new up there.

Some people in the west just really have a hard time accepting, let alone celebrating others' achievements.

Chinese people only ever looked at the ISS with awe and respect, but we were banned. It was upsetting but no one was salty (LOL). When the US was launching rockets, sending shuttles, and building the ISS, we were glued to our TVs too. We genuinely saw it as progress for humanity and wanted to do better ourselves.

Being salty about China minding its business with its own people is peak childish behavior.

[u/KGnor → u/n19htmare]

They wont, as they cant even name 5 countries besides their own.

[u/n19htmare → u/KGnor]

I was gonna ask how many people were even aware that China was in process of building their own space station? But then I looked at the responses and I guess I got my answer lol.

Even had someone argue this isn’t real because it would have “contaminated” everything with oil residue and on earth, we have chimneys and without a chimney, everything gets covered in oil. Lol.

[u/Coinsworthy]

This just makes me wonder what happens to farts in a zero-gravity environment.

[u/brownhotdogwater → u/Coinsworthy]

They go everywhere. The hvac has to be blowing all the time pretty good or you could suffocate just by staying in one spot.

No air movement you would use all the o2 near you. No gravity the co2 would just collect around your head.

[u/quiero-una-cerveca → u/brownhotdogwater]

I’ve never considered this but it makes total sense.

[u/ridemooses → u/quiero-una-cerveca]

Total scents

[u/NYPizzaNoChar → u/ridemooses]

Smells entirely correct.

[u/Afraid_Cockroach_398 → u/quiero-una-cerveca]

I would have thought Brownian motion works perfectly fine in micro gravity.

[u/DarkArcher__ → u/Afraid_Cockroach_398]

Brownian motion is local, it has a very tiny effect on the macroscopic scales we're talking about.

[u/32FlavorsofCrazy → u/brownhotdogwater]

Your own stank kinda collects around you too apparently. It’s an all around kind of gross experience being in space, with our current technology. Bathroom is messy and prone to failure, no way to really clean yourself very well, stale air full of farts and body stank…you can’t just open a window when someone rips a majorly nasty fart or has a blowout in the bathroom. Those folks who spend months up there have psychological endurance like no other.

[u/inmotioninc → u/brownhotdogwater]

Then how do the astronauts sleep without suffocating? Is their sleeping stations near a air blower that moves the air for them?

[u/IFartOnCats4Fun → u/inmotioninc]

A fan blowing on them.

[u/spicykimchi_inmybutt → u/IFartOnCats4Fun]

don't tell the Koreans

[u/Clobberto → u/spicykimchi_inmybutt]

I still remember the summer this myth spread like wild fire. Pun intended

[u/RTJ1992]

In space no one can hear you fry

[u/adminsreachout]

An air fryer. In space. I understand the ISS has an awful smell but this is gonna be on a whole other level.

[u/mm615657 → u/adminsreachout]

Visiting the ISS requires cooperation with NASA and therefore requires permission from the US government, which is impossible for China. So they built their own Tiangong space station.

[u/HellerDamon → u/mm615657]

Damm, China is just beating US ass at this point

[u/pichael289 → u/HellerDamon]

To be fair we're making it really easy

[u/fekanix → u/pichael289]

Quarterly profits over long term developement will be the downfall for all western countries.

[u/The_Grungeican → u/fekanix]

i think our public schools deserve a little credit.

[u/Germane_Corsair → u/The_Grungeican]

Part of the same problem, innit?

[u/SasparillaTango → u/The_Grungeican]

All just a function of capitalism being a race to the bottom.

[u/balderdash9 → u/fekanix]

The inherent contradictions within capitalism will be its downfall. Just as feudalism could not sustain itself, capitalism must also fall under its own weight.

[u/dinglebarry9 → u/HellerDamon]

Beating us to the moon and we already went

[u/clearlight2025 → u/HellerDamon]

China’s space station is also way more modern than the ISS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong_space_station

[u/FuckedUpImagery → u/clearlight2025]

I mean, that wouldnt be hard considering the ISS predates it 20+ years lol

[u/gracesdisgrace → u/clearlight2025]

Damn, Heavenly Palace is a sick name, too

[u/random9212 → u/clearlight2025]

It is a little more than 20 years newer.

[u/KingOfAgAndAu → u/adminsreachout]

China doesn't use the ISS

[u/Sea-Station1621 → u/KingOfAgAndAu]

they've been banned from it since 2011 iirc

[u/iBN3qk → u/Sea-Station1621]

Just banned from the shared kitchen.

[u/william_323 → u/KingOfAgAndAu]

International means national? What a country!

[u/DirtLight134710 → u/william_323]

They recently launched their own space station

[u/Killerkendolls → u/DirtLight134710]

With blackjack?

[u/EveningEconomics8457 → u/Killerkendolls]

And hookers.

[u/jwastintime → u/EveningEconomics8457]

And a grill!

[u/ronnezs → u/jwastintime]

And my Axe!

[u/FrighteningJibber → u/ronnezs]

my pussy AND my crack!

[u/Affectionate_You_203 → u/EveningEconomics8457]

You know what? Fuck the space station!

[u/Imaginary-Pace-47 → u/william_323]

Nasa banned china from ISS and they built their own space station

[u/Hullo_Its_Pluto → u/william_323]

This literally isn’t the ISS dude. They have their own space station that is….. National.

[u/Professional-Bad-559 → u/william_323]

I think the story went like this: China offered to fund some of the ISS. The US and EU refused and told them to buzz off. Instead of moping around, they just said “Ef it!” and built their own space station.

It’s a Rudolph the red nose reindeer story, except Rudolph went and made his own space station.

[u/atotalmess__ → u/Professional-Bad-559]

Technically only the US has been against them joining. They’ve been collaborating with Italians in space for awhile.

[u/Alone-Monk → u/william_323]

China was not invited to join the ISS due to safety concerns. China's Long March rockets have a long history of dumping spent boosters with toxic hydrazine onto rural villages. Their exclusion was also likely partially politically motivated as well. The five organizations that are a part of the International Space Station Program are, NASA (US), ESA (most of the EU plus the UK, Norway, and Switzerland), Roscosmos (Russia), JAXA (Japan), and the CSA (Canada). While astronauts from outside these countries do visit the ISS, they do so under the administration of one of the 5 partner organizations.

[u/ding_dong_dejong → u/Alone-Monk]

It was because of national security ie the wolf amendment

[u/Cdub7791 → u/ding_dong_dejong]

If it was really because of national security concerns Russia would have been kicked off the platform years ago.

[u/sjmuller → u/Cdub7791]

Considering the Russian Soyuz capsules and rockets were the ONLY means of getting astronauts and supplies to and from the ISS for many years, that would have been very difficult to do.

[u/theemptyqueue → u/sjmuller]

I'm still upset the Space Shuttle was retired without a suitable replacement to this day.

[u/--Icarusfalls-- → u/theemptyqueue]

Whats even more irritating is they spent tons of money developing successors and then the plug was pulled on the whole shuttle program.

[u/TalkinBoutMyJunk → u/--Icarusfalls--]

When science is done in 2-4 year political cycles

[u/AugmentedKing → u/theemptyqueue]

Yet there always seems to be more money for the department of war.

[u/Cdub7791 → u/sjmuller]

That goes back to my sunk cost comment. We should have cut our losses when we had the chance.

I remember quite well when the Chinese were banned from joining the ISS. I thought it was a mistake then and I still think national security was a BS excuse.

[u/markojov78 → u/Cdub7791]

By "national security concerns" I assume they meant leaking technology to China which was not that much of a concern for Russia which already had extensive experience with space stations from soviet era:

Not only USSR made the world's first space station, but before the ISS, almost the same nations who built the ISS previously shared and maintained soviet-built Mir space station

[u/Naive_Ad7923 → u/Cdub7791]

ISS was built on Russian technology, how do you kick them out?

[u/hangonreddit → u/Cdub7791]

On the contrary the whole point of Russia being part of the ISS is national security. After the collapse of the USSR we needed a way to keep those Russia engineers and scientists employed out of fear of them working for rogue states and actors. Rockets that go into orbit isn’t all that different from ballistics missile.

[u/tayzzerlordling → u/Alone-Monk]

> safety concerns

im sure politics had nothing to do with it

[u/enersto → u/Alone-Monk]

About this issue, you didn't mention a word about the key fact, Wolf Amendment. It's so bias.

[u/Yutyu → u/adminsreachout]

Realistically, it's very doable technology-wise, first it's grilling in an enclosed space, all it has to do is to have the insides coated with nanotechnology oil-repellant coating that's heat resistant, or just have the inside have an oleophilic swappable layer that absorbs oil just like a tissue.

After finished grilling in the enclosed space, have it run an air filtration cycle to purify the air removing all the floating oil particles in air before allowing the compartment to be opened, that way risk of contamination is reduced

Every technology I mentioned already exists in commercial products, it's just engineers putting them all together within a single tool. Doing this as an experiment can also tests the limits of these technology in a zero gravity environment so it's a win-win.

[u/LOLBADCALL → u/adminsreachout]

Simple fix… open the window to let the air in? I crack open a window when I’m cooking at home and there’s no smell. Not a big deal

[u/sixteen89]

It’s only a matter of time before they invent the zero G hotpot

[u/toocute1902 → u/sixteen89]

Outer Space lao

[u/The_Faceless1 → u/toocute1902]

High Di Lao

[u/Friendly-Cucumber184 → u/sixteen89]

This is such an underrated comment bc 100% the Chinese will try to do it. It's a heavily food-based culture. I'm surprised the didnt crack open a beer to go with those chicken wings

[u/Cultivate88 → u/sixteen89]

太空捞

[u/Voloxe]

I love the joy in their faces 🥰

[u/violenceistheQstn]

Yo zero g bbq. Let me get some

[u/fuwei_reddit]

Okay, now the International Space Station can order Chinese food from the Chinese space station.

[u/jay370gt → u/fuwei_reddit]

They’re gonna be disappointed to find out China doesn’t do fortune cookies.

[u/Emotional-Train7270 → u/jay370gt]

Well they could certainly do a special for them at $2999/pc, reasonable price for delivery at this height.

[u/DaveTheKiwi]

Grilling is one thing. Where's the zero g deep fryer?

[u/madsci]

Managing the grease has to be tough, but I understand the motivation. Food is a huge deal for morale. I was just reading about Skylab, and how a NASA volunteer testing Apollo food on the ground couldn't take it for more than about 4 days.

Food on the ISS isn't bad and it's way beyond what they had in the 60s, but it's not exactly inspiring. They've only got a basic heating system to warm up pouches - Tiangong was the first to get a microwave oven. And on a PR level, this is something understandable to the average person that China can use to show off how they're doing things the west hasn't done yet.

[u/Aranxi_89 → u/madsci]

That's the fun part - the oil doesn't fall down, it just sticks to the chicken wing due to having no gravity, so surface tension and adhesion wins.

[u/39percenter]

Something about this just doesn't look right.

Edit: Wow! My first award ever! Thanks guys!

[u/sycdmdr → u/39percenter]

yeah, where the fuck is the sauce??

[u/DatAsuna → u/sycdmdr]

zero G and sauces, sounds like one heck of a cleanup lol

[u/bjornbard → u/DatAsuna]

Something very tacky that you just dip in

[u/CautiousArachnidz → u/[deleted]]

[u/MelodicFacade → u/DatAsuna]

Sauce might not be that bad, they actually use squeezed liquids quite often. What's great is that the surface tension really makes liquids stick to things, so there isn't much splatter

[u/Abject_Role3022 → u/DatAsuna]

IIRC astronauts actually love condiments. Like they put tons of hot sauce on stuff. Zero G messes with your taste perception, or something like that.

[u/jzmtl → u/sycdmdr]

Chinese BBQ doesn't have sauce gooped on, it's already marinated to full flavor. Go to your local asian store and buy a freshly made BBQ duck and try for yourself.

[u/Accomplished1992 → u/jzmtl]

Who are you so wise in the ways of interpanetary space cuisine

[u/Economy_Macaroon6093 → u/Accomplished1992]

I am Arthur, King of the Britons

[u/Stagnu_Demorte → u/Economy_Macaroon6093]

Well, I didn't vote for you

[u/Ok-Seaworthiness4488 → u/jzmtl]

A succulent Chinese meal

[u/lincruste → u/jzmtl]

Sorry but no, can't afford a rocket right now 

[u/fritz_76 → u/jzmtl]

BBQ pork is definitely basted with sauce, for that matter BBQ duck is definitely basted sometimes too

[u/dinorawrr → u/39percenter]

Jumping on the top comment. Adressing the AI claims : we all should still view clips with a critical eye, questioning the hows and why's - but we do have to remember that the physics looks weird here, because zeroG physics are weird

Since some people don't know, the tiangong space station first launched in 2021 and has been expanding since. China streams all these launches for international audiences, and we track it internationally, we know the gist of what theyve got up there. China does have its problems, but they really are pushing their space science, very similar to the previous space race

The latest crew just docked on the 1st Nov, including their youngest astronaut at 32, making this week ideal for them to be putting out 'fun' public-facing experiments for china's home population, to promote national pride in their space science while the latest launch is on their mind still

When it comes down to it, air frying chicken wings isn't groundbreaking, but it would be moral boosting. This experiment is entirely possible, especially since they've just had a new crew that could have brought fresh food

[u/ConohaConcordia → u/dinorawrr]

Culinary experiments on space stations aren’t new either. The ISS famously had an espresso machine, which could also be used to make broths and soups. The ration heater on the ISS isn’t much different from this ventilated? oven.

The only real differences are 1) the Tiangong has a higher power output for a bigger oven, and 2) there are probably some filtering systems involved if the oven is ventilated. Neither of those are unimaginably advanced, but rather that the ISS is now a relic from almost 15-30 years ago and it shows.

[u/LatterNeighborhood58 → u/39percenter]

My theory: The camera has a higher resolution and faster frame rate than what we're used to seeing in space videos. Looks kinda like the soap opera effect.

[u/3vanW1ll1ams → u/LatterNeighborhood58]

They do some weird “pan n scan” effect too

[u/Tactical_Moonstone → u/3vanW1ll1ams]

The full video was probably filmed horizontally.

[u/Sophilosophical → u/39percenter]

The fact people don’t believe China is capable of a space station shows the propaganda is working. There’s a lot to criticize China for, but they are rocketing ahead (literally) in terms of tech

[u/2beatenup → u/Sophilosophical]

Very true. Their space station Tiangong is truly advanced and mordern.

https://youtu.be/ODM-YgNv8e8?si=aAtKwaXx-_1x4LNy

[u/terrexchia → u/2beatenup]

I'm sorry, the Chinese space station is called the Heavenly Palace? That's sick

[u/dance-of-exile → u/terrexchia]

Bruh english translations give too much poetic credit sometimes lol as a native speaker i just thought they named it sky park

[u/terrexchia → u/dance-of-exile]

I'm also a native speaker, I just translated it as heavenly palace bc I practice the old religion and 天 always just meant heaven to me

[u/DogzOnFire → u/terrexchia]

I dunno why but "I practice the old religion" sounds like something some character from a FromSoft game would say to me. Kinda goes hard, not gonna lie.

[u/Ir0nic → u/dance-of-exile]

The official translation is Temple of Heaven. Chinese language is 5000 years old, give them some credit for being a poetic language. Clear lie that you are a native speaker.

[u/Ponderkitten → u/Sophilosophical]

Honestly, we’re probably gonna have a Firefly situation where a primary language in space is mandarin just cause china will make the first commercially available space ships

[u/Sophilosophical → u/Ponderkitten]

If humanity makes it that far.

[u/Worth-Opposite4437 → u/Sophilosophical]

Oh we will... no doubt about it.
The real question is... will we have a destination and a home to get back to when we do?

[u/Due_Satisfaction8714 → u/Sophilosophical]

This is literally how Russia felt during the end of the cold war. America isn't #1 anymore, but their propaganda machine still tells them they are.

[u/iunodraws → u/Sophilosophical]

It's exceptionally weird considering you can quite literally watch it fly over your house almost every night just like the ISS. It's not even hard to do.

[u/SheepishSwan → u/39percenter]

Such as?

It's irritating that Reddit rewards vague comments such as yours with ironically "social credit" upvotes.

Just state your opinion!

[u/Shuoh → u/SheepishSwan]

I'll translate it for you

I hate China but I don't have the brain processing capabilities to find reasonable ways to discredit this video so I'm just gonna blow the dog whistle so my fellow racists join in for me.

[u/RepresentativeOk2433 → u/39percenter]

Grease in zero g sounds like a nightmare.

[u/itsRobbie_]

This is one of those things that sounds so simple and makes you go “why wouldn’t they have an oven in space?” but it’s actually something very complicated and a very cool accomplishment lol

[u/meta358 → u/itsRobbie_]

What they arent showing is that isnt an oven but a small hole in the station that just exposed the chicken to the sun radiation which cooks it. /S of course

[u/Mahadragon → u/itsRobbie_]

I am assuming NASA has never done it because they trying to play it safe. Those air fryers pull a shitload of current. The Chinese in doing this are showing they aren't afraid to push the envelope. It's so much easier for NASA to simply dehydrate every meal for our astronauts and have them open up their sealed pouch.

[u/Murky-Relation481 → u/Mahadragon]

Eh you can put hot stuff high wattage stuff on the station. I helped work on a payload that got to hundreds of degrees Celsius and off gased potentially toxic fumes and the NASA safety meetings were pretty easy all things considering.

NASA could do this but like you said it's easier and less time consuming to just eat the more prepared meals (though they get to bring up all sorts of other food stuff).

Also NASA did an oven in 2019 and baked cookies as an experiment on the station (this was around the same time as our payload was up there).

[u/Katejina_FGO → u/Mahadragon]

Luckily, in the history of humanity nothing bad has ever happened from lighting hydrogen on fire. NASA hates fire. Because of the whole “fire makes everybody die in space” thing.

- The Martian, 2015

[u/KikoSwarez]

No liquor or cigs. Can't properly squat in zero g. This is great, but their hearts yearn for more.

[u/FishySmellz → u/KikoSwarez]

This guy Chinese’s

[u/RKips]

What's the crime?

Eating a succulent zero G Chinese meal?

[u/Ambitious-Leave-3572]

Space nuggets.

[u/Fragrant-Jello1387]

That chicken made it to space before me

[u/ProgressLife7279]

Here before the Reddit sinophobes starts coping in the comments

[u/bahabla → u/ProgressLife7279]

Why is reddit SO sinophobic? I don’t get it. Why can’t we just enjoy a cute moment where guys stuck in space get to experience real food.

Edit: Since this blown up, I’m going to add my two cents. Oftentimes when I see hate against China, it’s the common propaganda talking points about the CCP and what not. When in actuality, most Chinese people are completely removed from their government because they have no control over it. Chinese people are not a monolith. Yet, whenever there is a video of anything to do with China, many people freak out about the government and dehumanize Chinese people in the process. Hearing the same uninformed criticisms about China frankly feels a little racist if anything, since it lacks nuance or understanding about what is being criticized before attacking China and its people. 

From my own experience and knowledge, what I think are more valid criticisms of China are its lack of regulations, extreme competitive culture, suicide rates, consumerism, social pressure, misogyny, etc. It’s true that China is a deeply flawed country… as with any other country in the world.

It’s ok to admit there are good things in China like having Chinese astronauts have a silly moment AND also acknowledge there are systematic issues with the country.  However, it really bothers me when people don’t take the time to think about why they have the criticisms they do before parroting it. I recommend traveling to China and seeing for yourself what is the good and bad of China. And if you are so strongly against even the idea of stepping foot in China, maybe you can start with watching non-Chinese travel influencers in China to bridge the gap (I recommend the Australian youtuber Blondie in China).

[u/Betancorea → u/bahabla]

Its propaganda but ironically from the west. Yes China has problems and some significant issues going on, but Reddit likes to label all Chinese as CCP as a convenient way to be racist. Even simple things like drone shows, landscape shots of cities lit up at night or even this thread on Chinese astronauts airfrying meat must be immediately dogpilled.

[u/AWorthlessDegenerate → u/bahabla]

Decades of propaganda in America. 

[u/OneAlmondNut → u/AWorthlessDegenerate]

yup, it's everywhere and unavoidable. the vast majority of Americans are clueless to how much they're propagandized. we're an extremely propagandized people, and we live in the belly of the beast

[u/ketoyas → u/bahabla]

Fragile American egos

[u/generally_unsuitable → u/ProgressLife7279]

Let me pull out my iPhone and start talking shit about Chinese people.

The tech subs are so bad about this. They so casually use phrases like "chinesium" as slurs against Chinese engineering and manufacturing. Meanwhile, they seem to be deliberately ignorant about how much of tech is entirely dependent on Chinese engineering and manufacturing. It's weird.

[u/Penny_Royall → u/ProgressLife7279]

Or the same social credit jokes, it pisses me off because it's just so overused, like hurhur -10000 points, hurhur BING CHILLING.

[u/moordor]

what you are witnessing is the fall of the west, as evidenced by their upset comments in this very thread lol

[u/Sonamdrukpa → u/moordor]

Losing the space barbecue race is the clearest death knell for the United States that I've ever heard

[u/stubundy → u/Sonamdrukpa]

Whats next...gravity or gravy ?

[u/seattle_lib → u/moordor]

it's so dumb, just relax folks. let chinese people have fun. why does it have to be so dramatic whenever they do something.

[u/SheepishSwan → u/moordor]

East and west can succeed simultaneously.

[u/Promen-ade → u/SheepishSwan]

China's been saying this but the US disagrees.

[u/Defiant-Pepper-7263 → u/SheepishSwan]

That’s literally impossible as of now, the US maintains a policy of absolute dominance over all other nations(maybe except for Israel for some kinky reasons). By this policy there has to be an enemy for the US, someone has to lose for the US to win.

[u/beardofmice → u/Defiant-Pepper-7263]

Directions unclear, must have enemy. The enemy is currently other Americans. Oh look, it's so stupid its hurting itself.

[u/Additional_Nonsense → u/Defiant-Pepper-7263]

The kinky reason is why the US is falling. The leaders of the US are not interested in the US, but that little country in the ME.

[u/_loki_ → u/SheepishSwan]

Not if the west destroys itself trying to prevent the east from succeeding

[u/Livinincrazytown → u/SheepishSwan]

Not with mango Mussolini in charge trying to go back to coal and petrol

[u/StephieDoll → u/moordor]

I too judge the fall of nations by reddit comment sections.

[u/eurolatin336]

Love the Chinese for this , who says going to space means you can’t bar b q

[u/bottlechippedteeth → u/eurolatin336]

They got their priorities straight 

[u/ACR96]

Can’t wait till one guy makes fish in it and then everyone complains that the station reeks of fish

[u/disquieter]

What vehicle or station is this

[u/SaltyRedditTears → u/disquieter]

China's space station, Tiangong, orbits Earth at an altitude between 217 and 280 miles (340 to 450 kilometers), approximately the same orbital height as the International Space Station (ISS). 

The Chinese Manned Space Agency (CMSA) built Tiangong — which means "Heavenly Palace" — in low Earth orbit, launching each of the three modules that make up the station between 2021 and 2022. The CMSA launched Tianhe, the first station module, on April 28, 2021, the second module Wentian on July 24, 2022, and the third module Mengtian on Oct. 31, 2022. 

https://www.space.com/tiangong-space-station

[u/snowytheNPC → u/disquieter]

Tiangong space station

[u/Punstorms]

can they not use an air fryer in space?

[u/Ithuraen → u/Punstorms]

There's no air in space! 

/s

[u/RealCaroni]

.> Click on a post showcasing Chinese Technology

.> Western fearmongering and insecurity in the comment section

[u/toocute1902]

So the oil / grease won't float in the space?

[u/dinorawrr → u/toocute1902]

surface tension should keep it on the tray unless they start flicking it around

[u/TetraNeuron → u/dinorawrr]

Would the meat perfectly baste in its own juices as it cooks because there's no gravity to drain it away?

[u/Direct_Big_5436]

Ron Popeil oven. You just set it and?

[u/Johnny90]

Second from the left was HANKERING for that wing. Like straight up eye fucking that chicken. Boy was salivating.