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xkcd #3187: High Altitude Cooking Instructions
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xkcd #3187: High Altitude Cooking Instructions
Title text:
1,300,000-1,400,000 ft: Ask a crew member to show you how to use the ISS food warmer.
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3187/
The higher altitude, the lower the atmospheric pressure, and the lower the boiling point of water. At 3300, you were down to 207°f. I used to work at a restaurant at 8k feet and we were down to a boiling point of 195, which was enough to make things like, say brownies, noticeable dryer if you didnt compensate for the extra water boiling off durrong cooking.
We actually had a fancy oven for pastry that you could set the pressure inside of, allowing us to cook things as though at sea level.
I don't know how much that is in the Boiling Water system