A chef is sparking a heated debate on social media after filming herself making pasta from scratch during a commercial flight.
“What’s the deal with airplane food?” Jerry Seinfeld’s famous line isn’t an uncommon sentiment among fliers, but one passenger hates it so much that she took drastic measures to avoid feasting on airplane fare.
Pasta aficionado and professional chef Kati Brooks, who goes by ‘buonapastaclub‘ on TikTok, has racked up over five million views in just one day after sharing a video of herself making her own gnocchi by hand at 30,000 feet in the sky.
In the video, she mixes the flour with water to make dough and shapes it into gnocchi with a special tool — all while sipping on a glass of red wine, of course.
“POV: You hate airplane food so you make it yourself,” she captioned the 32-second clip, writing in the description: “Anyone else?”
TikTok divided over chef making pasta mid-air
Unfortunately for Brooks, it doesn’t look like ‘anyone else’ could relate to her plight of hating airline food so much they make their own pasta. Commenters quickly pointed out how strange the situation must have been to her neighbor, while others offered far simpler suggestions for alternative eats.
“I mean, you could also pack a sandwich,” one user wrote.
“I don’t know how people don’t realize the airplane is the most unhygienic place,” another said.
“Great, now you just have raw gnocchi,” another pointed out.
At the time of writing, Brooks hasn’t yet responded to the comments about her latest TikTok clip — but that’s probably because she’s busy gearing up to release her very first cookbook, ‘Buona Pasta,’ named after the pasta shop her parents ran when she was growing up.
Brooks isn’t the only pasta-lover to go viral on social media; in 2024, an Instagram chef was dubbed a ‘monster’ for making pasta salad using a garbage bag to mix her concoction.
