http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2013/sep/17/serving-temperature-affects-taste-food
Excerpt from an article from guardian.com
But in terms of the actual eating, I don't find piping-hot food that tasty. Sure, it will smell exquisite as the aromatic molecules evaporate, but once a morsel hits your mouth, everything tenses up. My friend who has lost his sense of smell doesn't taste a thing until the food has cooled down. And besides, scalding your tongue will erode your taste buds.
Why high temperatures stifle taste
This is a trick heading, I'm afraid, because no one has figured precisely how this works, physiologically. But we can speculate. According to Karel Talavera Pérez, professor of molecular and cellular medicine at the University of Leuven in Belgium, studies recording the electrical activity of taste nerves demonstrate that "the perception of taste decreases when the temperature rises beyond 35C". With very hot food, he hazards, it is possible that the burning feeling "masks" taste sensations, because it works as an alarm signal to warn us about the danger hurting ourselves. "Perhaps we do taste at such temperatures," he says, "but we don't pay attention to it because we become worried about the burning feeling."
Had a discussion with epic before, and after some stubbornness on my part, I come to accept that colder stuff taste way better. For easier reference, what do you think of the taste of a hot instant noodle soup vs a cold instant noodle soup? To me, cold instant noodle soup taste more concentrated.
This is even more apparently when I was so fed up with my dual coil build just now (cause one side one heating up faster) that I threw out the slower burning coil out of my winder (NEA please don't catch me). Now I'm vaping fcukin flava munkey at 1.0ohm single coil, the honeydew taste is so much more in your face. I think I might change my ideal resistance range from 0.8ohm to 1ohm!
Just my few cents worth!
Excerpt from an article from guardian.com
But in terms of the actual eating, I don't find piping-hot food that tasty. Sure, it will smell exquisite as the aromatic molecules evaporate, but once a morsel hits your mouth, everything tenses up. My friend who has lost his sense of smell doesn't taste a thing until the food has cooled down. And besides, scalding your tongue will erode your taste buds.
Why high temperatures stifle taste
This is a trick heading, I'm afraid, because no one has figured precisely how this works, physiologically. But we can speculate. According to Karel Talavera Pérez, professor of molecular and cellular medicine at the University of Leuven in Belgium, studies recording the electrical activity of taste nerves demonstrate that "the perception of taste decreases when the temperature rises beyond 35C". With very hot food, he hazards, it is possible that the burning feeling "masks" taste sensations, because it works as an alarm signal to warn us about the danger hurting ourselves. "Perhaps we do taste at such temperatures," he says, "but we don't pay attention to it because we become worried about the burning feeling."
Had a discussion with epic before, and after some stubbornness on my part, I come to accept that colder stuff taste way better. For easier reference, what do you think of the taste of a hot instant noodle soup vs a cold instant noodle soup? To me, cold instant noodle soup taste more concentrated.
This is even more apparently when I was so fed up with my dual coil build just now (cause one side one heating up faster) that I threw out the slower burning coil out of my winder (NEA please don't catch me). Now I'm vaping fcukin flava munkey at 1.0ohm single coil, the honeydew taste is so much more in your face. I think I might change my ideal resistance range from 0.8ohm to 1ohm!
Just my few cents worth!
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