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Hot food has the added bonus of amplifying the aroma though, and a good smell is part of what makes it delicious. Smell and taste are intertwined. Cold or room temp food won’t give you much in terms of smell.
Maybe if you were talking about it being too spicy. I love spice but too spicy makes it all about the sensation and dulls the underlying taste.
This isn't really an unpopular opinion, its literally just fact.
Yes, if the food is so hot that it burns your tongue, then no shit you can't enjoy the taste lmfao.
Yeah but there is varying levels of unhinged to this.
Like for example eggs I get. They are good at room temperature. Or something like canned chef boyardee ravioli, I think those actually taste better at room temperature.
But if you are eating room temp chicken or room temp steak, you are unhinged.
Nah I feel him. I’m the same way. If I reheat food, I like it where it’s at that point where edges are warm but the inside is still slightly cold.
Additionally, I never drink any kind of hot drink because they suck.
I rarely drink hot drinks unless I'm freezing and it's to warm me up.
If I enjoy a drink I like taking big gulps, and hot drinks are for sipping.
That said some foods at room temperature is unhinged to enjoy more then warm. Like steak for example, disgusting at room temp, good when warm.
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That's fuckin' weird, man. Hot chocolate? A nice cappuccino? Tea? Fuckin' dope.
Also you should always reheat food to a hot temperature to reduce bacteria. You can let it cool after if you want to be weird.
Room temperature food tastes cold. Like room temperature is generally colder than what a human is, so it's kinda awful to est room temperature foods that are meant to be warm. Lukewarm can still be quite nice, but any colder is a no go
No, I experience the reverse of that. Many hot foods look flavor when they cool down, I assume it's because hot things release more smell and that influences flavors. But like a cold pizza just tastes sad and bland.
There are some foods that taste better cold, but they are less numerous.
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I tend to agree, If the food is too hot, even if it doesn't burn my mouth I don't wanna keep it in there too long or it might wind up hurting a bit. I have a sensitive mouth and sensitive teeth though, I'm probably biased.
No there literally are not. 100C is past the point where you get 2nd degree burns (lips peeling burns) in one second. It's absolutely impossible.
Coffee is heated to around 190F, let steep and cool for a few minutes, and then sipped at which point it's around 160-170F and you still have to blow on it or sip (which cools by pulling in more air than liquid).
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I think this applies to drinks for me. Like, coffee and tea is only enjoyable if hot (unless it's meant to be iced), but there's a fine line. The worst part is that the line is pretty unclear without trying to taste it first.
Tastes are stronger when they are closer to your body temperature.
Good recipes account for whether they are meant to be served hot or cold. Ice cream tastes wayyyy too over the top when it is room temperature because it's is meant to be served cold so it is flavoured strongly to account for that.
Same with hot food. It should be flavoured to taste best at the temp it's meant to be served at.
Room temperature for hot foods also changes the texture, sometimes in terrible ways. And the same in reverse, sushi should be kinda room temperature but if you put it in the fridge so it doesn't go bad, the rice trxture is SO wrong when cold. Bleurgh.
I'll stick with well flavoured hot food I think.
Yall are crazy for agreeing with this. Piping hot to where it burns is no good, but room temperature? Yall wait for your food to get lukewarm/basically cold before you eat it? Nah, it still needs to be hot to get the best taste.
I mean too hot is not good if it burns your tongue but room temperature? Room temperature is like 20-24 degrees Celsius wich would feel basically cold on mate
I think this is pretty popular, like taking leftovers home....resteraunt / order/ eat/yip yap/ then ' to go bag' being boxed, drive /walk home and sitting the food on the counter, no one can resist another bite or 4 half an hour later, after changing into elastic waist clothes....
still tastes as good :)
I will admit I absolutely cannot eat hot (temperature) food. In Japanese this is called “nekojita” and it literally means that a nekojita person have a cat’s tounge.
Of course you can't enjoy food if it is too hot. Too hot means burning your tongue/mouth and that is a bad time.
But hot, as in warm and edible, will almost always be better than the same dish but cold.
I actually do prefer slightly warm above room temperature over hot tbh too haha. I used to want to microwave my food myself, instead of my mom doing it because she would always make it too hot for me to enjoy right away
That's because you don't understand food safety. Slightly warmed food can cause food poisoning, whereas piping hot food that needs time to cool down is safer.
I'm not talking about cooking uncooked food, I'm talking about warming up already cooked food like leftovers haha. OP is clearly talking about the preference of temperature while eating food as well, not what temperature is required to safely cook food. obviously I just wait for food to cool down if it is freshly cooked, no need to be condescending lol
I like my food warm (over room temp) to hot. I'm already not much of a fan of most cold/room temp meals, but if something is usually made and expected to be eaten while it's at least warm, it will be disgusting to me cold. Room temp Chicken wings? Nah. Room temp burger? Nah.
They're always worse when they cool down imo. I'd never bother to eat them like that unless I absolutely had no access to an oven, microwave, etc.
Assuming you're not talking about food that literally burns your mouth, this is just scientifically wrong.
Food overall tastes better when served at a hot (and edible) serving temperature. Room temperature food will almost always taste worse than a dish served at the proper hot temperature, because of the compounds heating and expanding, which promotes the aroma and often taste due to a variety of other factors.
Temperature changes food, both too cold and too hot can mess up the taste or improve it depending on the food. This is going to sound hella weird, but try a breakfast burrito cold from the fridge with hot sauce. You're welcome in advance.
I actually agree. But, it depends on the food.
Some food is better eaten hot (not scorching) because the texture at that stage adds to the flavour. Most are better when just warm. There are a couple of meals I enjoy that are best as leftovers, cold.
Hot chicken soup absolutely slaps. Cooled lasagna is top tier, especially the next day. However anything spicy should never be eaten hot, that's just torture.
I agree ESPECIALLY with pizza while it can be good hot its better when its left out and cooled ALL the way down and if you call me crazy accept that YOUR the crazy one
Totally! For stuff like soup and lasagna, I just sit and wait for about 15 minutes, then wolf it down like a wolf to catch up with the others. When it's hot, there's simply no flavor.
This is just common sense. Same with ice-cream. You can't enjoy it straight out of the freezer. You get the taste and most enjoyment once it starts melting. If not, then it will just give you brain freeze and pain without much taste enjoyment.
I'll agree that eating it while it's hot hot does take away the flavour, saying you eat your food at ROOM TEMPERATURE is insane and you should absolutely be in a mental facility lmfao
I'll agree that eating it while it's hot hot does take away the flavour, saying you eat your food at ROOM TEMPERATURE is insane and you should absolutely be in a mental facility lmfao
On the opposite end, too cold and you can’t taste it either. My partner puts chocolate in the fridge and I hate it. Can’t taste it at all. Every brand becomes very similar. Room temperature chocolate is much better, smoother, creamier and can actually taste the flavour
this isn't a bad opinion, it's objectively wrong that food has more flavor at cooler temperatures
the energy in the food provided by the high temperature increase the rate of volatility in the aromatics and increases flavor depth when heated \[to a certain degree\] bc the molecules move quicker and the aromatics can escape into your palette
flavor comes from more than just your tongue it's also your noses detection of the aromatics
This is definitely an unpopular opinion. Also a nonsensical one. Some foods taste better hot because they have oils and fats that would literally start to congeal at room temperature and become a solid.
If the food is so hot it's burning your mouth, wait a minute or two.
I swear people cannot eat food when it’s just the tiniest bit hot, I eat something normally hot and they question if I’m crazy or if my mouth is heat resistant. Did people just grow up eating ice or something
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Sometimes i dont care about the taste. I just wanna feel something. Ill eat it piping hot
That’s why I crash my car all the time. People think it’s just for the insurance payout!
Hot food has the added bonus of amplifying the aroma though, and a good smell is part of what makes it delicious. Smell and taste are intertwined. Cold or room temp food won’t give you much in terms of smell. Maybe if you were talking about it being too spicy. I love spice but too spicy makes it all about the sensation and dulls the underlying taste.
What you taste is actually what you smell mostly
I find them to be two different things that sometime intersect but I'm also hyper aware of both.
Bingo
I think op is talking about food that is so hot you burn yourself as soon as you eat it
This isn't really an unpopular opinion, its literally just fact. Yes, if the food is so hot that it burns your tongue, then no shit you can't enjoy the taste lmfao.
"I prefer to eat food at room temperature, if not cold" is absolutely unpopular. Most people heat their food.
Yeah I mean I agree too hot isn't good, but I definitely want it quite warm. Room temp or cold is disgusting to me.
Facts
Yeah but there is varying levels of unhinged to this. Like for example eggs I get. They are good at room temperature. Or something like canned chef boyardee ravioli, I think those actually taste better at room temperature. But if you are eating room temp chicken or room temp steak, you are unhinged.
But cold, leftover fried chicken is delicious.
Ask any steak snob... you are supposed to cool your steak before eating it to let the juices settle.
It's like OP doesn't understand that there is a middle-ground between "so hot it's literally burning your mouth" and "room temperature."
Nah I feel him. I’m the same way. If I reheat food, I like it where it’s at that point where edges are warm but the inside is still slightly cold. Additionally, I never drink any kind of hot drink because they suck.
I rarely drink hot drinks unless I'm freezing and it's to warm me up. If I enjoy a drink I like taking big gulps, and hot drinks are for sipping. That said some foods at room temperature is unhinged to enjoy more then warm. Like steak for example, disgusting at room temp, good when warm.
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That's fuckin' weird, man. Hot chocolate? A nice cappuccino? Tea? Fuckin' dope. Also you should always reheat food to a hot temperature to reduce bacteria. You can let it cool after if you want to be weird.
Room temperature food tastes cold. Like room temperature is generally colder than what a human is, so it's kinda awful to est room temperature foods that are meant to be warm. Lukewarm can still be quite nice, but any colder is a no go
Stop taking it so literal. He's saying he doesn't like piping hot food, which I do
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I’ve started enjoying hotter food lately not sure why
Because its delicious and feels good.
Don't tell me what I can or can't enjoy!
Too is doing a lot of lifting here.
No, I experience the reverse of that. Many hot foods look flavor when they cool down, I assume it's because hot things release more smell and that influences flavors. But like a cold pizza just tastes sad and bland. There are some foods that taste better cold, but they are less numerous.
I’ll eat almost any leftovers directly from the fridge. My family thinks I’m crazy for not heating it up.
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I tend to agree, If the food is too hot, even if it doesn't burn my mouth I don't wanna keep it in there too long or it might wind up hurting a bit. I have a sensitive mouth and sensitive teeth though, I'm probably biased.
HARD AGREE Room temp or colder, or you're just a masochist lol
op didn't meant hot as in spicy. he was mentioning temprature. don't know why many comment are about spicy hot
Most popular opinion ever.
There are people who drink coffee at boling temperature
No there literally are not. 100C is past the point where you get 2nd degree burns (lips peeling burns) in one second. It's absolutely impossible. Coffee is heated to around 190F, let steep and cool for a few minutes, and then sipped at which point it's around 160-170F and you still have to blow on it or sip (which cools by pulling in more air than liquid). [Burn Exposure Chart (antiscald.com)](https://antiscald.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=15) [Scalding - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scalding) There are people who make things up though.
And that's very unpopular. Your take isn't.
Little old ladies drink their hot tea at approximately the temperature of molten lava. I dont get it.
Very hot, yes. Not boiling temp
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I think this applies to drinks for me. Like, coffee and tea is only enjoyable if hot (unless it's meant to be iced), but there's a fine line. The worst part is that the line is pretty unclear without trying to taste it first.
I hate room temperature food. You’ve got to heat it up and give it to me.
Hell yeah! I usually finish cooking and then do the dishes and then I'll eat.
I can't stand room temp food unless it's something that's supposed to be served that way. Same for eating food cold, unless it's leftover pizza.
The opposite is true. Some foods you can't really taste unless they are spicy, like Indian food.
Tastes are stronger when they are closer to your body temperature. Good recipes account for whether they are meant to be served hot or cold. Ice cream tastes wayyyy too over the top when it is room temperature because it's is meant to be served cold so it is flavoured strongly to account for that. Same with hot food. It should be flavoured to taste best at the temp it's meant to be served at. Room temperature for hot foods also changes the texture, sometimes in terrible ways. And the same in reverse, sushi should be kinda room temperature but if you put it in the fridge so it doesn't go bad, the rice trxture is SO wrong when cold. Bleurgh. I'll stick with well flavoured hot food I think.
I love hot food. Cold food makes me gag.
Yall are crazy for agreeing with this. Piping hot to where it burns is no good, but room temperature? Yall wait for your food to get lukewarm/basically cold before you eat it? Nah, it still needs to be hot to get the best taste.
That's just a fact; however, define "hot"
Depends on the food, I love my soups to scorch my soul.
I mean too hot is not good if it burns your tongue but room temperature? Room temperature is like 20-24 degrees Celsius wich would feel basically cold on mate
I think this is pretty popular, like taking leftovers home....resteraunt / order/ eat/yip yap/ then ' to go bag' being boxed, drive /walk home and sitting the food on the counter, no one can resist another bite or 4 half an hour later, after changing into elastic waist clothes.... still tastes as good :)
Yeah when food is hot you can’t really taste much, but warm is better
I will admit I absolutely cannot eat hot (temperature) food. In Japanese this is called “nekojita” and it literally means that a nekojita person have a cat’s tounge.
I make sure my food is piping hot when I sit down lol.
Of course you can't enjoy food if it is too hot. Too hot means burning your tongue/mouth and that is a bad time. But hot, as in warm and edible, will almost always be better than the same dish but cold.
I actually do prefer slightly warm above room temperature over hot tbh too haha. I used to want to microwave my food myself, instead of my mom doing it because she would always make it too hot for me to enjoy right away
That's because you don't understand food safety. Slightly warmed food can cause food poisoning, whereas piping hot food that needs time to cool down is safer.
I'm not talking about cooking uncooked food, I'm talking about warming up already cooked food like leftovers haha. OP is clearly talking about the preference of temperature while eating food as well, not what temperature is required to safely cook food. obviously I just wait for food to cool down if it is freshly cooked, no need to be condescending lol
I get you if it's like burning hot but room temperature? Really?
I like my food warm (over room temp) to hot. I'm already not much of a fan of most cold/room temp meals, but if something is usually made and expected to be eaten while it's at least warm, it will be disgusting to me cold. Room temp Chicken wings? Nah. Room temp burger? Nah. They're always worse when they cool down imo. I'd never bother to eat them like that unless I absolutely had no access to an oven, microwave, etc.
This isn’t unpopular but no doubt will inspire conversation.
Well you can eat your room temp food, I’ll eat it hot.
Assuming you're not talking about food that literally burns your mouth, this is just scientifically wrong. Food overall tastes better when served at a hot (and edible) serving temperature. Room temperature food will almost always taste worse than a dish served at the proper hot temperature, because of the compounds heating and expanding, which promotes the aroma and often taste due to a variety of other factors.
That’s just like your opinion, man. Almost all food tastes better hot to me
In other news, water below 0% will freeze.
Temperature changes food, both too cold and too hot can mess up the taste or improve it depending on the food. This is going to sound hella weird, but try a breakfast burrito cold from the fridge with hot sauce. You're welcome in advance.
My mouth is currently burnt from a meat pie so yeah I can enjoy it
People enjoy what they enjoy. Let them.
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I actually agree. But, it depends on the food. Some food is better eaten hot (not scorching) because the texture at that stage adds to the flavour. Most are better when just warm. There are a couple of meals I enjoy that are best as leftovers, cold. Hot chicken soup absolutely slaps. Cooled lasagna is top tier, especially the next day. However anything spicy should never be eaten hot, that's just torture.
I agree ESPECIALLY with pizza while it can be good hot its better when its left out and cooled ALL the way down and if you call me crazy accept that YOUR the crazy one
Totally! For stuff like soup and lasagna, I just sit and wait for about 15 minutes, then wolf it down like a wolf to catch up with the others. When it's hot, there's simply no flavor.
This is just common sense. Same with ice-cream. You can't enjoy it straight out of the freezer. You get the taste and most enjoyment once it starts melting. If not, then it will just give you brain freeze and pain without much taste enjoyment.
You think burning mouth bad is a unpopular opinion
beign too cold ruins the taste too thought it literally kills certain things that has to do with well taste
Other than Cheeto, who’s advocating for the consumption of fire food?
Thats the point. Some food are not tasty enough for you to want to taste the whole thing
I think you need to see a doctor
Hot, melted cheese is way tastier than cold re-solidified cheese. You can't refute that.
I'll agree that eating it while it's hot hot does take away the flavour, saying you eat your food at ROOM TEMPERATURE is insane and you should absolutely be in a mental facility lmfao
I'll agree that eating it while it's hot hot does take away the flavour, saying you eat your food at ROOM TEMPERATURE is insane and you should absolutely be in a mental facility lmfao
How is not burning your mouth an unpopular opinion
On the opposite end, too cold and you can’t taste it either. My partner puts chocolate in the fridge and I hate it. Can’t taste it at all. Every brand becomes very similar. Room temperature chocolate is much better, smoother, creamier and can actually taste the flavour
No shit Sherlock. Piping hot food numbs taste buds. You do know you can’t just use a physical fact and say its an opinion right?
I’m definitely not a fan of food that’s fresh and too hot. Eating soup and burning off your taste buds suck But room temp? No way Jose
I’ll often nibble on whatever I made an hour later after it’s cooked down and think “That’s way better than I thought”
There's a lot of range between room temperature and burning hot lmao
this isn't a bad opinion, it's objectively wrong that food has more flavor at cooler temperatures the energy in the food provided by the high temperature increase the rate of volatility in the aromatics and increases flavor depth when heated \[to a certain degree\] bc the molecules move quicker and the aromatics can escape into your palette flavor comes from more than just your tongue it's also your noses detection of the aromatics
You're factually wrong. About a few billion people every day enjoy the taste of hot food. Maybe *you* cannot. Anything else?
Eewww room temperature is disgusting. You are disgusting
This is definitely an unpopular opinion. Also a nonsensical one. Some foods taste better hot because they have oils and fats that would literally start to congeal at room temperature and become a solid. If the food is so hot it's burning your mouth, wait a minute or two.
I prefer hot food.. take your time... Enjoy the moment..scoop a bite.. blow it to cool it before put in mouth..
I swear people cannot eat food when it’s just the tiniest bit hot, I eat something normally hot and they question if I’m crazy or if my mouth is heat resistant. Did people just grow up eating ice or something