José Andrés
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3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
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they could have destroyed us a thousand times over by now. We could destroy ourselves a thousand times over. We, with our inability to go to other galaxies, we could destroy ourselves. So for sure, they could destroy us. I don't think that's what they're interested in. I think we are an emerging civilization in the galactic sense. And I think that if you look at
primitive man and you look at primitive primates and you look at current human beings and our technological achievements and all of our medical achievements and our ability to feed enormous groups of people and our concern about the environment and all the things that make us so special as human beings. I would imagine that that would be even more advanced with these species.
I think that's the only way they're visiting us. Obviously. That's another way. You don't get to us if you're still tribal, territorial apes.
Technically, they say that a speed light will be almost... Even if we are able to achieve a speed light, that our human body itself... will not be able, whatever that means. But now we see that we can be sending our conscience in other ways without our physical body. This could be happening one day.
Me, what I know, the thing I'm interested in is I wish I will be alive when we put the first restaurant in the moon or the first restaurant in Mars. And I will be there, just cooking for the first people arriving. I've done my little part. Many chefs, many chefs, many, you know, they've done, thanks to NASA, their work, and they put their mark on food that has been sent to the space station.
I did it in 2016, 2017. My dream was to send paella, the Spanish rice dish, to the space station.
You did?
You sent it to the space station? I was able to partner with a company called Axiom, A-X-I-O-M, which is one of the companies helping provide services to NASA to bring astronauts, and they will do it also with civilians, to the space station. I was a Spanish astronaut, a Spanish-American astronaut, called López Alegría,
And he's like, Jose, in Axiom, we will be interested if you want to do a dish because we are going to be feeding all the astronauts in one of our first trips. And if you are up to it, say, yeah, what do I have to say? And we send Iberico ham. We send paella Valenciana. We sent a pork dish with pisto, which is like a ratatouille, a Spanish ratatouille. And I did it. That's amazing.
But you know the thing I did which is the coolest? What? Because all of that brings new things and new opportunities. So it's this guy called Jim Sears, an amazing engineer, a guy that is crazy for space like you, like me, like so many.
And like everything, there is a competition, and the competition is about, right now, astronauts receive the food already cooked, come in those pouches, semi-purees, liquids that they pour into their mouth, and blah. And certain things are okay. The rice we did, I thought, was... Very good, even we had a little issue.
We tried to make the paella too by the book, and the paella at the end was a little bit too dry, as a traditional paella is, meaning the grains of rice are fairly loose and separated, one from each other, which on Earth is a sign of a good paella, but in space, if you open the pouch, all of a sudden you start having all those...
Little rice floating in the station, and there is the moment you want chopsticks. Oh, my God. I was on the edge of collapsing the space station by Zendaya. But what I've been working on with this guy I mentioned, Jim Sears, is that he came up with a kitchen that will be – The kitchen, and he won a competition, the kitchen that astronauts could use one day, hopefully soon enough. This is it.
And that Jim, amazing guy, Jim Sears, and it's two prototypes of this machine. He gave us the prototypes. My team... has been working on them. Wow.
Macaroni, that's cherries. Look at, that's a cornbread. That's a cornbread. And I want you to take a look because this is how food will look in space. If one day we have a kitchen in the surface of the moon or in Mars, that's a brownie. And if you are, Elon Musk, if you're listening to this conversation,
A space foot will look like this kind of circle, this circumference, because that machine, what it does is centrifuge. Like G-forces can go up to G-14th. That's a lot of Gs. And the reason is... that we will send ingredients, but the ingredients will float.
If you don't achieve the centrifuge that will move the ingredients to the sides of this kind of kitchen where you don't cook in the bottom, but you cook on the sides, you will not be able to cook. Because you need that gravity, that g-forces to bring the food to the edges, then you can do mac and cheese, brownies, and this will be great because especially if one day we go to Mars,
astronauts are going to have to be doing something to keep their minds for... And one of the things will be cooking. Why not? And better quality cooking. This amazing guy, Mr. Sears, is the guy that just came up with the kitchen. And I feel like I'm Forrest Gump in a chef heart. But then you get the opportunities to get something like a kitchen that one day could be the kitchen that will fit...
humans in a space.
And that would be so great for morale, too, because instead of eating goop out of a tube, you're eating delicious food so you can enjoy a real meal in space. What a genius idea to cook in a centrifuge. to spin it around so that it has gravity.
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