Why have nasty plane coffee when you could brew yourself a fresh cup of Joe?
It’s fair to say that these days, 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 in 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 into a handheld grinder.
He then removes the grinder’s top to pour the grinds into some sort 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 skilled barista.
Leave it to the snarky people of the internet to blast this flyer, who they’re probably jealous of, for doing this not just mid-flight but in a window seat.
“Being insufferable at 35,000 feet,” the first comment under the video read.
“If I smell freshly brewed espresso on my flight and I don’t get any I will crash out,” someone else joked.
“Next time I fly, I’ll bring my portable BBQ and grill up some steaks,” another person quipped.
“My seat neighbor nightmare,” read another comment.
All jokes aside, this flight passenger might be onto something as flight attenants have admitted to judging flyers who order coffee onboard.
“I think we all know by now that ordering coffee on a plane is a little bit sketchy,” flight attendar Leanna Coy said in a TikTok vid.
“You’re telling me,” she continued, “you genuinely enjoy the taste of that airplane coffee so much that you’re willing to drink it — not out of the necessity for caffeine — just for the flavor itself?”
And it seems that Coy has good reason for being grossed out by people who order java while in the air.
A flight attendant turned commercial pilot, Kevin, revealed that “tanks rarely get cleaned that the water is in,” in a trending tell-all.
“For me, it’s always been the way that flight attendants have to clean out coffeepots,” he added, revealing that coffee gets dumped into an airplane toilet — bringing the pot’s spout close to the bathroom toilet bowl.
