When I refer to “cold meals”, I’m talking about temperature (Cold, cooked meals).
To me, cold meals taste much better compared to hot meals. With chili, for example, the flavor becomes more rich after it has cooled down.
Additionally, cold meals are less messy than hot meals. For instance, melted cheese and grease from meats will harden when refrigerated, thus no longer dirtying the hands.
Finally, consuming hot meals can put you at risk of burning your mouth, causing prolonged pain (which sucks BTW). Cold meals do not have this issue.
IMO, the only benefit hot meals have over cold meals is warming you up and (for some meals) being ready to consume immediately after preparing it.
Cold pasta can go back to Hell where it came from.
I prefer room temp foods. Drives my wife insane when i let my food, coffee, eggs, etc cool down to 70-85 degrees
Sometimes.
Our sensitivity to bitter tastes is proportional to the food’s temperature. This is why hot coffee tastes more bitter than warm coffee.
Similarly, why salads taste better when cold. I LOVE cold cucumbers. They taste WAAAAY different than shitty room temp cucumbers.
That being said, food prepared to be consumed hot is definitely something I’d prefer over room temp/cold. The “hotness” of the food itself adds to the experience which I enjoy.
Wow, an actually unpopular opinion. You get an upvote ya psycho
Hey a real live psychopath 👋
COLD chili??
To me, cold meals taste much better compared to hot meals.
Cold foods and drinks actually limit the flavors you can taste in food. The temperature of foods change the sensitivity of taste receptors (primarily for sweet, salty, and umami flavors), the amount of/intensity of aromatics released by the food, and the textures of fats, gels, and syrups.
It is all down to preference, of course. But if you prefer the flavor experience of chilled foods that are normally served hot, then you likely prefer foods that are less/more subtly sweet, salty, and savory, and more sour and bitter. You likely do not care as much to the aromatic smells of food that accompany and enhance/alter the flavors of food. And you probably prefer the firmer, thicker textures of foods that would usually be softer and thinner with heat.
The downside with foods being cold, health-wise, if you do like things to be sweeter, for example, is that you need far more sugar to get the same sensation of sweetness from a cold food (like ice cream) than a warm food (like pie). Same with saltiness. A cold soup needs more salt than a hot one, usually.
Alternatively, warm fatty foods spread fat-soluble flavors across the tongue while cold fatty foods usually block taste receptors more while providing little flavor itself. So if you’re cooking for the purpose of eating the food cold, maybe you’ll use less fats and save yourself some calories/cholesterol and also get more flavor in that form factor at the same time.
the flavor becomes more rich after it has cooled down.
The opposite is true. Cold mutes flavors.
The richness is due to time, not temperature!
This is why Coors is “best served ice cold” so it hides the piss flavor 🤣
Yes, this is also true of any beer. It’s just that Coors, and most American pilsners, have no redeeming flavor of their own.
Yes, I agree pretty much any beer is bad when warm. But as you say, those macros aren’t good at all
This is a true unpopular opinion and not just a DAE [popular thing].
What’s a DAE?
“Does anyone else,” a common karma-farming opener on sites like reddit.
Oh, thanks for the info! I don’t use Reddit, so I’ve never heard of this.
Cold chicken is the GOAT
Cold fried chicken gets really dense and flavorful. I discovered it as a bar Hors d’oeuvres and completely fell in love with it.
But hot chicken soup is still my go-to 9 times out of 10.
But have you tried cold chicken soup?
Unfortunately, yes
nah, not better than cold turkey. close, though
got my upvote. I love a hot meal.
I agree for pizza.
I also like a lot of meals that area prepared to be cold like cold soups or sandwiches or wraps. But I can’t get on board for everything, some stuff needs to be hot.
Fresh pizza and cold pizza are basically two completely different meals. They’re both great, but out of every food I’ve eaten the temp changes pizza the most imo
Pizza is the only meal that is normally served hot that I prefer cold.
Voting up because this opinion is so unpopular to me it’s revolting
Mmmmm cold left over BBQ meats! 🤤
Hot food makes me nauseous pretty much every single time. I crave cold food.
Wow, I hate this.
Hot things must be hot. Fats must be above room temp or the taste is muted.
Fridge temp anything meant to be eaten warm is depression on a plate.
…though, chocolate belongs in the freezer.
Disagree on chocolate. Texture and taste are improved at room temp.
The modern dairy milks fold.Tony’s has had the fridged these past few weeks but just get the clean to break
I prefer my chocolate at mouth temp.
Lol. I actually love eating chocolate bars and m&ms from the freezer. Not even fridge cold. Freezer.
Frozen m&ms are great. I guess I mostly mean like nice dark chocolate, mainly
Cold for snap and cleanliness, then you melt it in your mouth and savor it, not just cronch and swallow as quickly as possible
It has a wonderful crunch when frozen, and cheap chocolate bars dont taste quite so sickly sweet - I really wish all brands sold a dark chocolate version that was readily available.
True.
I have mixed feelings, here.
