Food on a Sub
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Interesting!
Recently I caught a snippet of a Taiwanese news program where they talked about what it's like in China's submarines. China has not acknowledged if they have (or do not have) nuclear submarines, so any information available is based on China's diesel submarines. Because it's diesel powered, there is severe power constraints on what you can do in the submarine. HVAC is tightly rationed, 'hot' food is tightly rationed because there is not a lot of power to cook/heat up the food, and many types of food are forbidden because they are prone to induce flatulence and/or body order that, if you recall the HVAC rationing, can be a very big deal in an airtight steel tube.
Nuclear power gives our submarines great advantages for sure!
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They're called pig boats for a reason.
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Very cool video!!
(I think on a previous forum thread, we were talking about German World War 1 or 2 submarines and how they dealt with food)
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The husband of a friend was a submarine nuclear officer. I thought it was funny that his training was done in Idaho USA. LOL I guess that one of the major submarine nuclear training schools.
He told me that had something they called "hot beds". He worked a rotating 6 hour shift with another officer and they shared a bed. When one was on duty for six hours, the other had the bed, and then after six hours, they would rotate, and continue. He said one good thing that he learned was to fall asleep in an instant.
He ended up leaving after his six(?) years because too many days in the submarine. For (I think) two years, they had 300+ days in the submarine each year.
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@taiwan_girl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_racking
The practice dates back at least to the sixteenth century, and today is particularly applied aboard submarines, where maximization of space is especially important. Generally, the lowest ranking members of the crew are required to hot rack. Hot racking is sometimes utilized in jails and prisons to deal with overcrowding.
Depending upon the watch system, two, or even three people may end up sharing the same bunk. The term comes from the military slang use of the term "rack" for a bed or bunk. With more than one crew member assigned to a rack, it is possible that a crew member returning from a duty shift will lie down on a rack immediately after it is vacated by another crew member about to start a shift. The rack is therefore said to be "hot", that is, still warm from the vacating crew member's body heat
