Why have nasty plane coffee when you could possibly brew yourself a fresh cup of Joe?
It’s fair to say that as of late, flyers have been caught doing an array of bizarre things mid-flight — but this one might just take the cake.
A coffee lover and supposed barista took it upon himself to make a cup of espresso 35,000 feet within the air. In a TikTok video that has almost 2 million views, Ozan Cetinkaya shows himself pouring a small vacuum-sealed bag of espresso beans right into a handheld grinder.
He then removes the grinder’s top to pour the grinds into some kind of bluetooth connected device that stamps them before mixing them with, what one would assume, hot water.
As Cetinkaya taps what looks like an app on his phone while holding the device over a mug, a stream of hot, probably delicious smelling, espresso pours out waiting to be sipped on by this expert barista.
Leave it to the snarky people of the web to blast this flyer, who they’re probably jealous of, for doing this not only mid-flight but in a window seat.
“Being insufferable at 35,000 feet,” the primary comment under the video read.
“If I smell freshly brewed espresso on my flight and I don’t get any I’ll crash out,” another person joked.
“Next time I fly, I’ll bring my portable BBQ and grill up some steaks,” one other person quipped.
“My seat neighbor nightmare,” read one other comment.
All jokes aside, this flight passenger could be onto something as flight attenants have admitted to judging flyers who order coffee onboard.
“I feel everyone knows by now that ordering coffee on a plane is somewhat bit sketchy,” flight attendar Leanna Coy said in a TikTok vid.
“You’re telling me,” she continued, “you genuinely benefit from the taste of that airplane coffee a lot that you just’re willing to drink it — not out of the need for caffeine — only for the flavour itself?”
And plainly Coy has good reason for being grossed out by individuals who order java while within the air.
A flight attendant turned business pilot, Kevin, revealed that “tanks rarely get cleaned that the water is in,” in a trending tell-all.
“For me, it’s all the time been the best way that flight attendants need to clean out coffeepots,” he added, revealing that coffee gets dumped into an airplane toilet — bringing the pot’s spout near the bathroom lavatory bowl.
