
Ask Adam: Why do we like extremely hot/cold food? Real vanilla vs imitation vanilla? What's up with your accent? (E20)
The Adam Ragusea Podcast
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Food Is Hotter Than It Ever Was
Anthropologists have speculated that may be the reason we like hot meat covered in hot viscous sauce. Our ancestors used to feast on the raw bloody flesh of freshly killed animals, particularly warm blooded fellow mammals. Lukewarm is easily my favorite serving temperature for pea. All the elements of a slice of pe just hold together, weigh better as you eat them when it's lukewarm. And if you've ever thought that the flavor of lukewarm food is stronger compared to that of piping hot food, well we just establish that you were not making that up. Heat suppresses taste above 35 c, 95 fahrenheit,. increasingly, right? Just starts to drop off around
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