A flight attendant has revealed on TikTok the disgusting reason why passengers shouldn't drink coffee on flights.
Content creator Kevin, known as @ichbinvin, looked at answers posted on Reddit about flying in response to a question that asked, “Flight attendants, what are the dirty little secrets of your industry?”
The question was answered by people who work in the bird trade on the website.
Kevin then took some of the answers and gave his own thoughts on what was shared in his video.
The first point he raised was made by an anonymous respondent who said he was a pilot.
TikTokker and flight attendant Kevin (pictured) discussed why fliers should never drink coffee on board, and revealed his experience
This respondent said that people never drink coffee on a flight, and gave a very compelling reason why it is best avoided.
They said people should avoid the hot drink because water tanks are “rarely, if ever, cleaned and they use this water to make coffee on board.”
Kevin agreed that passengers should not drink coffee on board, and advised fliers to “get to the airport ten minutes early.”
This so that they have time to 'buy a cup of coffee in the terminal'.
But he had other reasons why pilots shouldn't drink the coffee, besides the fact that the pilot said the water tanks are rarely cleaned.
Kevin explains in the video, “The fact that the tanks where the water sits are rarely cleaned should be the least of your worries.
“To me, this has always been the way flight attendants had to clean coffee pots.
'For whatever reason, we are not supposed to empty coffee cans into the sewer, but dump them into the toilet.'
According to Kevin (pictured), he feels like there must be “some kind of backsplash of particles, bacteria” splashing back into the pot
He continued to emphasize that cleaning the coffee pot, claiming that the coffee is dumped into a toilet, is not necessarily hygienic.
He continued, “If you take a coffee pot and throw it in the toilet, to avoid making a huge mess everywhere, you have to get a little close to the toilet.
And I imagine there's some kind of backlash of particles, bacteria, whatever, that goes right back into the coffee pot, which then gets put back into the coffee maker.”
He shared one last piece of information about drinking coffee on a plane.
Kevin said he wouldn't drink drip coffee on flights unless the “airline has some kind of Nespresso machine.”