Dallas-based 37 year old food influencer Maria Baradell flew American Airlines coach from Chicago O’Hare to Barcelona on August 18th – and made bread at her seat inflight to enjoy at her destination.
I wanted to surprise my sister with a fresh loaf of bread. Making sourdough on a flight to Spain.
She mixes flour, water, and a sourdough starter in a collapsible bowl, and then stretches and folds the dough. She explained that “sourdough bread-making takes time, so I figured a long trip like this would be perfect for it.” And she used hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes throughout the process to maintain cleanliness in a space that doesn’t get well-cleaned between flights.
@leafandloaf Let me know if you want to see the final results or if you have any questions #milehighsourdoughclub #sourdough #milehigh #milehighclub #sourdoughbread #makingsourdoughbread #inflight #americanairlines #AA ♬ Barcelona Spain – Kikot
Video of her breadmaking escapade has been viewed millions of times, and most commentary is negative. For instance, people frequently complain that she’s exposing other passengers to gluten which seems odd considering American Airlines serves bread as part of inflight meals. This isn’t a unique exposure!
And the breadmaker says she mixed ingredients before seatmates arrived and asked for their permission once they were seated. Her seatmates were excited by it!
Unfortunately she had no access to the galley ovens on the Boeing 787, so had to wait until arrival to actually bake the bread she’d made.
Having been roasted online for her efforts, she shares that she’d previously tried to bring a jar of sourdough starter on a domestic flight in Canada, only to have it confiscated. Originally clearing TSA security in Dallas she had extra scrutiny, but was following all the rules, so was able to bring her ingredients through.
TSA inspected my bag in Dallas since I had flour in it (which of course can look suspicious). The flour, salt, and sourdough starter passed the TSA tests. A lot of people are wondering how I got past security with these items, but they are allowed and a lot of people in the sourdough community travel with their sourdough starters. We like to make bread wherever we go.
Four years ago a man posted video of himself grilling a steak in a Delta Air Lines lavatory so… I guess? That man was also known for cutting the hair of the passenger in front of him on a plane when the hair was draped over the seat back, covering his entertainment screen.
And no one will ever be as much of a hero as the man who cooked garlic shrimp in a Delta Air Lines lavatory and baby back ribs in a hotel bathroom.
So she didn’t make bread, she made bread dough, which is exceedingly easy to make. I would have been impressed if she found a way to use the power ports to actually cook the bread.
Actually, she could have baked the bread using a power port at her seat. Connect a USB A Male to 12V Car Cigarette Lighter Socket Female Converter Cable, then connect that to a lunchbox-looking Portable Oven 12V Personal Food Warmer, Car Heating Lunch Box,Electric Slow Cooker For Meals Reheating & Raw Food Cooking for Road Trip/Office Work/Picnic/Camping/Family gathering [Amazon]. It might have taken a while, but it’s possible.
Come to think of it, that has given me an idea for my next long haul flight……
While flying from Chicago O’Hare to Barcelona on American Airlines, imagine making sourdough bread in your coach seat. This could provide you with ample training to become an executive chef at a Michelin-star restaurant. I believe many refined passengers would enjoy breaking bread while flying on American Airlines in coach class. Bon Appétit!
AA food is so bad that she had to make her own 😉
Let’s be honest, the only reason she made dough was to get clicks as an “influencer”. Can’t people just sit on a flight for 8 hours and enjoy the trip.
So she managed to fill the cabin with yeast spores. Huh. I guess the foot fungus level needed augmentation.
Wouldn’t it be nice if there were influencers who showed people how to be polite and mindful of their fellow passengers instead?
I’m so tired of rude attention grabbers.
Also, if you want fresh bread in your seat you can always fly business class.
Wait — she didn’t bake it? I read the story because I was interested in how she was able to bake it on the flight.
She didn’t make “Bread”. She made “Dough”. No big deal. Thanks for wasting my time.
Good for her. Always great seeing people finding joy in otherwise dreary situations.
Attention wh0re.
All these people thinking they can now somehow plug a benchtop oven into their seat power plug….NO..
The amperage is very low like 1 amp. If you trip the breakers with unauthorized equipment, not just bread makers, expect big trouble . The powers ports are desgned for laptop charger, phone chargers. Low amperage only. Let alone the undiscovered pathogens emitted by those in close proximity. Whats next, cosmetic surgery!!!!!.
If she tried doing that next to me, I would have sneezed all over it. Pathetic what some people will do for “likes”. I guess, more pathetic are those who are actually “influenced” by her.
Saudia 163 was found with cooking equipment on board.
Hey, it’s sourdough. Surprise, yeast spores are in the air around you. Also, surprise, they are fairly unique to the microclimate. So, when you change location, you change dominant yeast. If you bring a sourdough culture with you, the native strain will quickly take over. And bringing active cultures of anything into the US is forbidden.
But it only takes three days, flour and water to get a starter running.
A kitchen is where you make bread I’m sure as hell is not on an airplane. How ridiculous if I was sitting beside her at a punch the loaf down and throw it on the floor. Idiotic.
@ bubba
Yes yeast spores are dominate in kitchens where bread has been proofed for years. Not so dominate in an airline cabin, well until now. Let the fungus be among us.
Some people carry active yeast around with them wherever they go. Typically called a yeast infection or sometimes called thrush.
Jns ew, that is is just what we were missing! Candida bread.
@Maryland, supposedly the candida yeast odor is unmistakable. While you are considering that, consider where cheese and wine may have got their yeasts from.
Jns . BS. Candida does not have an odor unless you’ve got something else going on, (bacteria) but a icky cheese discharge . You should find a better doctor. And yes I used to enjoy wine, and yes they add yeast. So enjoy your honey with biscuits. Yuck.
Easybake Oven under the seat in front of you?
Flour (dust) can stay airborne for 24-48 hours, so yes, GLUTEN flour being tossed in a metal tube where celiac are most likely present IS an issue.
The only question is why are so many “influencers” retarded? Oh wait…
She wouldn’t b able to cook as plugging any of those devices are illeegal on an airplane
The underseat plugs I have used have an integral over-amperage detector which turns off the outlet. I have trouble using higher amperage power converters, as the inrush current on these will turn off the outlet. It generally will turn back on in a little bit. This leads to a plug/unplug cycle I have to use to get the capacitors in the power converter charged enough that the underseat plug will stay on.
The underseat plugs typically are converting 115V/400Hz to 115V/60Hz, and are limited in the amperage the plug can support. The power is also shared between the same row on the same side of the aisle(s).
Wheat is one of the top food allergens. Someone on the plane might have been anaphylactic to it in the air, or a later passenger gotten it on their hands from imperfect cleaning. Absolutely not okay!