Why this celeb chef refuses to eat airplane food

Meal serve on airplane for passenger
By Hannah Edensor


Gordon Ramsay is known for a lot of things – swearing, being angry, and being a good cook.

And now he’s becoming known as an anti-advocate for plane food, claiming he’ll never eat the stuff again.

Ramsay recently spoke to Refinery 29, insisting that while he’s got no problem chowing down on a meal prior to take off (including his own restaurant in Heathrow’s Terminal 5), he’s seen too much to consider inflight meals.

“There’s no f***ing way I eat on planes,” he told them.

“I worked for airlines for 10 years, so I know where this food’s been and where it goes, and how long it took before it got on board.”

His work he refers to is his 10-year stint with Singapore Airlines, where he worked as a culinary adviser to help create inflight menus.

Under his rule, the airline produced food such as pan-seared salmon escalopes and ribeye steaks with red wine sauce.

But no more. Ramsay now prefers a “light” Italian snack or his own kitchen’s food at Gordon Ramsay’s Plane Food in Heathrow.

“A nice selection of Italian meats, a little glass of red wines, some sliced apples or pears with some parmesan cheese, I’m like a pig in s**t,” he said.

But according to a recent New York Times article, airlines are always trying to trick us into thinking food tastes better than it does.

Airlines apparently work on the knowledge that “noise, low pressure, dry air, plastic cutlery and cups are also largely to blame for meals that taste less than appetising”.

The article also said studies have shown that those factors alter the way we taste things at high altitude compared to when we’re on the ground.

 

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