Food Jammers - Season 2

Story Quest: To make their own ‘airplane’ food. Contraption: Custom made trays and containers with a built-in heating system. In an era marked by declining quality of food and service on most airlines, Micah, Chris and Nobu decide to make their own airplane food to get them through their next trip. With advice from a friendly flight attendant, the Food Jammers get to work developing their own menus, and designing their own trays with built-in heating systems. With their own flight simulator in the loft, the guys sit down and enjoy fresh, nutritious and most importantly, delicious portable meals.

Story Quest: To put on an edible art show in a gallery. Contraption: Tools and edible presentational devices to allow for the advent of vertical food. The Food Jammers decide to put on an edible art show. They get invaluable inspiration from an expert pastry chef and silk-screening artist but it doesn’t answer all their problems. The challenges are in keeping the food on the wall, and keeping it fresh. Their efforts exhaust them, but in the end, their art opening is an artistic and edible success.

Story Quest: The Guys seek out vegan super foods that provide an ultra healthy alternative culminating in a highly nutritious and enjoyable meal. Contraption: A sprout space pod that allows trays of sprouts to rotate around a lighting source that is rated for constant summer sunshine. It is winter time, and the Food Jammers are craving some fresh, live green food. They visits a nutritionist, a sprout-grower and an indoor environment specialist from whom they learn that living plants are better for the body. After a week of building, planting and waiting, Chris, Micah and Nobu harvest raw, nutritious sprouts and make a green meal budding with life.

Being sick is a drag, so the Food Jammers build their own customized gurney to keep remedies and comfort foods within reach. A Chinese herbalist gives guidance on the best foods and remedies to have at hand, while the guys seek out opera technicians to learn the use of pulleys and ropes to deliver the goods. From the comfort of their completed sick bed, the Jammers taste their digestible and delicious remedies and instantly start to feel better.

Story Quest: To create a meal through chance and improvisation with an outcome that amazes it’s chefs. To be able to cook together and still surprise each other with a mystery meal. Contraption: A divided cooking area which allows three to cook simultaneously without seeing what the others are preparing. The Food Jammers like the idea of cooking together, but would like to incorporate some mystery and surprise into each meal. With the help of various experts and advisers – including a psychic – Chris, Micah and Nobu build a three way rotating kitchen, that allows them to cook without the others seeing what each Food Jammer is doing. The kitchen rotates between the guys, giving them all a stab at working on each meal, even though they have no idea what each meal is, until the end when they get to taste their mystery collaborative dishes.

Story Quest: To make enough Maple Syrup to feed a hungry horde of pancake eaters. Contraption: An evaporation tank that boils down the sap into maple syrup. It is the first thaw and the Jammers are psyched to go out and tap the sap of sugar maples to make homemade maple syrup. They convert Chris’ car, Uncle Gummers, into a portable sugar shack and head out to the country to find enough trees to extract their syrup. After successfully making maple syrup, the Guys head back to the loft where they set up for an elaborate feast boiling a sweet and hearty meal in their newly tapped syrup.