“​​Ok so now what?”

A TikTok of chef Katie Brooks (@buonapastaclub) rolling out gnocchi from her airplane seat went viral with almost 10 million views, however as a substitute of applause, it drew widespread disgust.

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Viewers couldn’t consider she smuggled flour and a uncooked egg onto a flight, kneaded dough mid-air, and dusted her seatmates with flour, all to current a dish of uncooked pasta.

Brooks apparently made it via safety with flour and a uncooked egg and boarded her flight with a bowl, dough scraper, and pasta stamping device in her carry-on. Once seated and touring at cruising altitude, the airborne pasta maker cracked the egg right into a flour nicely and used her finger to mix the combination into an ideal ball of dough that she proceeded to roll out, lower, and kind into gnocchi, sipping crimson wine all of the whereas.

The put up shared on Sep. 4, 2025, caught backlash from 1000’s of commenters. People identified that airplanes are famously unsanitary and questioned how her seatmates felt about being dusted with flour.

Most confounding for the web, nonetheless, was that the video ended as Brooks offered a dish of recent, raw pasta to the digital camera. TikTok customers reacting to the put up demanded to know what Brooks deliberate to do with the uncooked gnocchi she toiled over from a cramped airplane seat. 

“​​Ok so now what?”

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The put up’s onscreen textual content learn, “POV: you hate airplane food so you make it yourself.” Commenters advised Brooks pack a sandwich subsequent time.

In her 32-second video, Brooks demonstrates which you could make recent gnocchi from begin to ready-to-boil mid-flight, onboard a industrial airliner. First, she poured water right into a mound of flour that she stirred together with her finger till it fashioned a ball.

Next, she rolled the dough into lengthy tubes and lower them into bite-sized items. Then she dusted the items of dough with extra flour and rolled them throughout a stamping device, forming them into gnocchi.

“Great now you just have raw gnocchi.”

@buonapastaclub Anyone else? — #pasta #pastalover #airplane #cooking #foodie ♬ Love Me Do – 🪲🎸/🌊🌴

Annoyed viewers sounded off within the feedback part.

“I don’t know how people don’t realize the airplane is the most unhygienic place.”

“So raw toilet air gnocchi???”

“Nothing beats an uncooked pasta.”

“You could’ve just bring a sandwich you know I’m pretty sure that would’ve been better than raw gnocchi 🤷‍♀️.”

“I hate 2025.”

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