Food Temperature

[shasha14]

mankind prefers to eat foods that are served hot or sometimes chilled.I have the impression that it should be beneficial and tastier to eat food as it is i.e. at room temperature.Our body mechanism also would work optimally, I presume at either room or body temperature.Give your comment?

[RATTER15]

Nonsense, so you want virtually cold roast dinner followed by a warm melted ice cream desert. Please explain why that would be beneficial or tastier.

[pixie373]

You're better off just posting once, so any answers are together.

[LazyGun]

Well I think you need to expand on your thesis a bit. How is "our body mechanism" working "sub-optimally" when we eat food served hot, or chilled? What measure are you using when you make this assessment?

[Mosaic]

If you live in a cold rainy climate, work hard all day and come home to eat something, choose between a hot dinner and a tepid dinner......
If you are sitting beneath a vine-covered pergola in a sunny warm climate and have had a sweaty hot work day, would you want a hot roast dinner?
I don't know what you've been told Shasha but calories are calories, aand your body's only method of distinguishing the temperature of food is the resultant effect of cooking on ease of digestion. Other than than, mother nature ironically doesn't care where or how it arrives.

[heathfield]

Throughout India and the Far East, every day, literally millions of school children make their way to school carrying an array of stacked pots containing their cooked lunches. Everything from curries to noodles. Come lunchtime these are all at 'room temperature', but no-one minds.

[boxtops]

This question's been asked and answered on twice now http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Food-and-Drink/Question1305067.html