This is not the way to make dough rise.
A baking influencer has been branded “inconsiderate” after she baked her sister bread while on a long-haul flight.
“Do you want to see the final results?” Maria Baradell teased in a sky cooking hack clip that is blowing up on Instagram. The content creator, who goes by @leafandloafco on the platform, frequently shares baking tips with her thousands of viewers on the platform.
For her latest video, Baradell decided to take her cooking lessons to new heights and create a batch of sourdough from scratch while flying to Spain.
“I want to surprise my sister with a piece of fresh bread,” Baradell wrote in the caption describing this pie-in-the-sky scheme.
Accompanying footage shows her mixing water, flour and salt in a bowl on her desk. She then proceeds to knead the dough and shape it into shape, essentially treating the plane like a prep kitchen at 30,000 feet.
“It looks nice,” gushes Baradell, who explained that she slept during the “mass fermentation.”
Thankfully, the home cook didn’t attempt to bake the bread on board, instead deciding to wait until she reunited with her sister in Spain to pop buns in the oven, as shown in a follow-up clip.
However, viewers considered the stunt half-baked, arguing that the plane was not the right setting for a cooking tutorial.
“Imagine sitting in your seat and the person next to you sets up a camera and starts pulling out bowls, ingredients and making bread,” one commenter quipped.
Another wrote: “This is ridiculous! All for social media attention. Joy!”
Many even considered this a risky move, given that she could have been in close proximity to passengers with gluten allergies.
“This is a no-brainer for all the people on the plane allergic to wheat and/or gluten,” said one. “If I was sitting next to you I would immediately demand a new seat and a full refund because I would be sick for weeks just inhaling the flour. Please be more considerate next time.”
Another criticized: “It looks really nice but please don’t do it on the plane, it’s a really closed place and a celiac can get a hangover, the flour can ‘fly’ and spreads easily.”
Meanwhile, a crew member argued that Baradell was likely to contaminate the bread given the plane’s unsanitary environment, where they saw passengers cutting their toenails, vomiting and even changing diapers on the tray table.
“Enjoy your germ bread,” they crooned. “This is an airplane – not a bakery. Learn some manners, people.. please.”
Baradell addressed her critics in the aforementioned follow-up footage, declaring, “#milehighsourdoughclub is not going to be a thing.”
“I was trying to get creative after seeing another creator make in-flight pasta, but thanks to your comments I learned that wasn’t a good idea,” she wrote. “I’m very grateful to people who shared their comments in a good way, but it’s fine if you want to hate it, I had good intentions.”
Baradell isn’t the first to be put on the no-frills list.
In December, another food influencer raised eyebrows — and possibly national security threat levels — after cooking garlic shrimp in an airplane lavatory.
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