Plane Passenger Goes Viral for Making Fresh Pasta on a Flight

A plane passenger has left many stunned after making pasta from scratch during a flight.

In a viral video posted on the TikTok account Buona Pasta Club, pasta enthusiast Katie Brooks can be seen making gnocchi from her plane seat at 30,000 feet high, to avoid eating the airplane’s food offerings.

At the beginning of the clip, Brooks holds up a bowl containing flour and adds a cup of water in the middle. She then mixes the contents to form a dough ball, which she proceeds to roll into four separate long sections.

Brooks then cuts the sections into smaller pieces with a cutting tool and shapes the pieces into gnocchi using a gnocchi board. She reveals in a final shot a plate full of her impressive pasta.

 “POV: You hate airplane food, so you make it yourself,” Brooks wrote over the clip, adding in the caption, “Anyone else?”

The content creator explained that the homemade — or “plane-made” — pasta is “the perfect solution for airplane food” for those who are not fans of the meals.

“Tired of bland airplane meals? Discover how to make delicious homemade pasta with our easy recipe,” she wrote.

Viewers were left shocked by the clip in the comment section. “Imagine sitting next to this person, I’d be so mad they’re getting flour everywhere while I’m trying to nap 😭😭,” one person wrote. 

“How are you even able to do this on a flight??! So baffled 🤣,” a second viewer commented. “How are you going to cook it? Or you just eat it raw?” Another asked. “My question is, how did you get a Ziploc bag of flour through security?” someone else added.

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According to her LinkedIn page, Brooks grew up making pasta and learned how to cook Italian food while studying abroad as a college student in Florence, Italy. She currently runs pasta-making classes and workshops from her home in San Diego.

“[I] launched an Instagram to share all my pasta creations, which I named after my parents’ pasta shop, the OG Buona Pasta and where I got the name for my own pasta company,” she wrote on LinkedIn. “During the Pandemic, I was temporarily laid off, which was the best thing to happen to me [as] I started making and delivering fresh pasta throughout the area, which led me to where I am now.”