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.
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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!
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For instance, melted cheese and grease from meats will harden when refrigerated, thus no longer dirtying the hands.
If you think your hands are still clean after touching cold greasy food I’m not shaking your hand or taking your opinions seriously
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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.
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.
Temperature is actually an important part of culinary art. Serving something at the right time to be at peak flavor, texture, and Temperature is important.
That being said many foods can and are appreciated at different Temps. Some foods containing those fats thinned by heat are meant to be enjoyed cool (cookies and cakes with a high butter content fornexample) in other contexts.
As a consumate omnivore, eater, and foodie please by all means enjoy.
To those who haven’t tried give it a shot. Brisket and it’s fat hit different cold and is enjoyable in a new way. For those that like cold foods try warm sweets.
As a final comment you do you boo boo, but when someone prepares and serves you food try and appreciate it the way they intended, they’ve worked hard on it. They’re trying to share something special with you and it’s worth a shot if you care (restuarants are not necessarily held to this, if you’re paying you have every right to say no fucking way) and try to share your experiences if you can.
Nah, chili and other soup sort of foods are better chilled then reheated.
Some pizza is the same, better next day reheated. Not all of it.
Most warm food is better warm. Beans and rice, pastas, soups, potatoes, eggs, oatmeal, bread & toast, I like most meat based meals warm too (except most sandwiches). Lots of things (not rice) are better when reheated though.
Cold meals rock if they are meant to be cold. I love a salad.
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.
Not necessarily cooked. In this heat, a Gaspacho is a treat!
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I partly agree, certainly that if you have to wait for the food to cool down so it doesn’t burn your mouth, that’s not an enjoyable experience. I mostly like cooked food to be lukewarm (but only some things are enjoyable to me actually cold). Also I don’t like hot drinks, even in winter.
Cold meals are nicer for heatwaves
Agree with this for the most part. Leftover pizza, leftover turkey sandwiches, etc.; however, not all meals are like this. Soup for instance, or any meal that’s has a lot of water in it I would prefer to be warmed up.
Pizza… ohhh I almost prefer it to be a day old fridge pizza.
Shout out to refrigerators. Truly a backbone of society.
