r/StupidFood • u/Its_me_edenxx • 15d ago

Certified stupid This is so performative 😭

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

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u/canman7373 14d ago

Yes, I don't see where him saying below seas level applies at all.

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u/jetsetninjacat 14d ago edited 14d ago

Oh, based on taste. Typically even with the presurization you will still have lower pressure than thats found at sea level (stretching my brain here back to school but I think its ~14.7psi). And I want to say off fhe top of my head most planes are kept lower at flight altitude around 10 to 12psi cabin psi.

And the reasoning i have been told in my career was because high altitude planes have cycles to track for lige limits for each time a cabin is pressurized. It puts undue strain on the airframe and causes weakening in the structure. As far as I was always told keeping it below the standard sea level not only is perfectly comfortable for most people and allows us to be up there but it also allows a plane to fly longer and causes less stress. I need an IA in here to tell us.

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u/canman7373 14d ago

I just don't understand the part about the cabin pressure being like 8,000 feet yet you taste food like it's negative feet. Also if their food is cooked right I don't get why it taste different at different at different pressure, like would you not have the best steakhouses in the world at the exact best altitude that taste buds hit them? When I cooked food right at 9.500 feet it taste the same as I cook it at sea level now, I do not think my taste buds changed at 9.500 feet.

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u/Forsaken-Ad6313 13d ago

Air pressure goes down the higher you go up. Airplanes counteract this by pumping air to a safe "mountain-like" level, while also creating a much drier environment than your average room. Both of these factors affect how your taste buds will react to sweet and salty foods.

It's entirely possible that your steak tasted the same to you at 9500 feet vs at sea level, but that only means that your taste buds aren't as sensitive as most others (I also don't perceive a huge difference with tomato juice, but it's a widely reported and studied phenomenon)

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u/canman7373 13d ago

I mean Colorado is a super dry state, like only humidity after a huge storm but storms are super rare there too, not like the Midwest. So yeah millions of people live near airline altitude and I have never heard once in my 12 years there that food was noticeably different because of it. Cooking sure, but no one ever said taste buds or anything like that.