Food commercials on TV always show muffins slowly toppling, or a tossed salad slowly moving through air and the pieces bouncing individually onto the plate. Then you go to a restaurant and order a salad and it just sits there doing nothing. Why can't food in real life behave like in the commercials?

Now it can. The Slo-Mo Restaurant is located on one of those giant zero-gravity airplanes that astronauts use to practice weightlessness. Just as the plane reaches its peak altitude and begins to descend into near freefall, all the waiters come and, at this moment in unison, pour the customers' food above their plates (which are bolted to the table which are bolted to the floor), and everyone can watch as the food slowly drifts downward and bounces temptingly on the porcelain surfaces. The plane then levels off so people can eat their food in relative comfort.
-- phundug, Mar 07 2013

Slow Food http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_food
Unrelated [spidermother, Mar 09 2013]

I'm thinking I might like this but it would mean that everyone has to be seated at the same time and all the meals be prepared simultaneously which would require a lot of organization and a huge kitchen staff...
-- xandram, Mar 07 2013


But what would happen to the soufflé as the plane pulled out of the parabola?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Mar 07 2013


I suppose a lower-cost alternative would be large parabolic dinner plates with high-speed fans blowing out of pores embedded in them. The air blowing upward slows the descent of the food in a controlled way which lets you savor its appearance and texture before it lands on the plate.
-- phundug, Mar 09 2013


Why not cook it your self it does not get much slower than that?
-- travbm, Oct 29 2015



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