Astronauts Will Soon Be Able to Bake Bread in Space
Eating bread in space is a surprisingly dangerous activity: free-flying crumbs can make someone choke, get in the eye, or worse, cause a fire if they hit an electrical panel. This is why most astronauts have to eat the less appealing alternative, the flatbread.
According to NPR , German engineer Sebastian Marcu and one of his engineering friends started Bake in Space to solve the soft space cake problem. Bake in Space wants to give astronauts freshly baked bread without crumbs in space by creating an oven that can bake bread in space. The creators expect to be able to do this by 2018, but there are several challenges, such as preventing giant bubbles of hot air from the oven and the need to create an oven that uses one-tenth the power that a regular oven on Earth would use.