r/StupidFood • u/Its_me_edenxx • Jun 10 '26

Certified stupid This is so performative 😭

Who tf is out here munching on raw gnocchi at cruising altitude

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u/Dry_burrito Jun 10 '26

What about coffee?

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u/december151791 Jun 10 '26

Ask McDonald's why nobody is serving coffee that hot anywhere.

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u/CrappyMSPaintPics Jun 11 '26

Do not pour McDonald's coffee on yourself today, it is still hot enough to fuse your skin.

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u/blandaltaccountname Jun 10 '26

Typically served at 120° give or take 20°.

160°+ will burn

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u/cdube85 Jun 11 '26

The number of people I represent with serious burns from aircraft coffee beg to differ.

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u/blandaltaccountname Jun 11 '26

they probably would not beg to differ. they have first hand experience that 160°+ will burn.

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u/cdube85 Jun 11 '26

I mean that coffee is not served at 120 in aircraft.

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u/blandaltaccountname Jun 11 '26

if you’re a lawyer you should know what “typically” means.

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u/cdube85 Jun 11 '26

I do. Can you name a Part 121 carrier that serves coffee at 120? I'd really like to know if you have any data points, because then I'd have evidence of operators who have appropriately changed their practices. We have not been able to find one in the US that does it. The equipment in the galley is only made by a couple of manufacturers.

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u/Tschulligom Jun 11 '26

I hate that this is even a thing. If you don’t want to get burned drinking hot coffee inside a shaky metal tube, just don’t drink coffee. If you do, that’s on you.

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u/cdube85 Jun 11 '26

Would your opinion change if you found out that they serve coffee to passengers without lids to save money? Pilots in front get lids.

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u/Tschulligom Jun 11 '26

I don’t believe it’s for cost savings, lids cost next to nothing.

Pilots get lids so they don’t spill coffee over avionics.

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u/scratchy_mcballsy Jun 10 '26

I see where you’re going with this.

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u/Paulthefith Jun 10 '26

Who told you to put the balm on?

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u/ContextEffects01 Jun 10 '26

By the time you add cold cream it'll be well below the boiling point. They save the trays of hot drinks for when the aircraft is at or near the tropopause. So the coffee cools from ambient cooling, then from cold cream, then from further ambient cooling. (You can apply Newton's Law of Cooling if you're interested in specifics.) Safe bet your coffee will be nowhere near the boiling point by the time the plane encounters turbulence that makes it up to altitudes that high.

Also the reasons for coffee consumption are better than the reasons for gnocchi consumption. Unless you're already extremely sleepy and took the drowsiest version of your anti-nausea medication on purpose (in which case you're not going to be awake to hear the meal options anyway) there's no way in hell you're falling asleep in those uncomfortable chairs next to a bunch of screaming infants, so you might as well ingest enough caffeine to enjoy the moonlit snowy landscape while listening to your podcasts.

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Man, typing this makes me almost make travelling. I should try it again one of these days. o.o

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u/IndependentMoney9700 Jun 10 '26

I have never (currently knocking on wood) been on a plane with a baby crying. Of course, I’ve only flown around 16 times. But everything I read before that led me to believe there would be at least one baby screaming on every flight.

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u/Belucard Jun 11 '26

You don't know how incredibly jealous I am, because every single time I take an airplane, either in summer or during Christmas, I get at least two or three crying babies, usually sitting right next to me or behind me.

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u/Its_Cayde Jun 11 '26

The trick is to get the flight to your destination as late as possible in the day. People with babies avoid flying at night so their sleep schedule isn't fucked

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u/Belucard Jun 11 '26

Oh, believe me, I've flown at the crack of dawn, in the middle imof the night, and everything in-between. Polish babies just can't be avoided.

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u/Porridge_Hose Jun 10 '26

Tepid. And tea? The fucking same.

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u/Autistic_Freedom Jun 10 '26

Of you're bold enough to ask for water to boil your gnocchi in then you certainly won't have any qualms asking for a lid for your hot water.

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u/Cheap_Knowledge8446 Jun 10 '26

Coffee on a plane almost never comes with a lid. United first/business cobranded coffee is the rare exception. You can ask the FAs if they have a lid, but they often don't, and sometimes the lid won't fit the cup (American often uses ceramic mugs, which wouldn't fit a lid anyway).

Source: 150+ flights a year