I am beginning to think so, yes. I have long noted that cold drinks taste more like coldness than like anything else(which is why so many people who dislike beer, myself included, prefer their beer icy cold), but I’ve always associated my preference for hot food/drink as a preference for freshness—you want to eat it before it goes stale and congeals and whatnot, not so much because of the actual flavours. Thinking about it, though, there’s not much difference between right out of the pan versus half an hour old, and yet I’ll take the former every time.
I now want to experiment to see what exactly I’m experiencing and thinking when I’m eating foods at different temperatures.
I am beginning to think so, yes. I have long noted that cold drinks taste more like coldness than like anything else(which is why so many people who dislike beer, myself included, prefer their beer icy cold), but I’ve always associated my preference for hot food/drink as a preference for freshness—you want to eat it before it goes stale and congeals and whatnot, not so much because of the actual flavours. Thinking about it, though, there’s not much difference between right out of the pan versus half an hour old, and yet I’ll take the former every time.
I now want to experiment to see what exactly I’m experiencing and thinking when I’m eating foods at different temperatures.